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A good pace in London to get my bass shielded?


Cantdosleepy
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Hey guys.

My main bass is a MIJ '75 Jazz reissue. I like it an awful lot, but it's pretty noisy around any kind of electronics (up to and including my amp and POD!). I need to keep my fingers on a string or the bridge almost constantly. It becomes noticeably worse if I turn the volume down on one of the pickups (I like to rolll a little off the neck to give it a bit more 'bite'.

Is this just a shielding issue? Is it a pickup issue? Can I take it into a shop and get it properly shielded by an hexpert and make this noise go away? Does anyone have a reccomendation of somewhere in Lnodnon to get this done?

Be careful about tempting me with new pickups. All this talk of Wizard here is giving me GAS!

Cheers!

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[quote name='Cantdosleepy' post='49669' date='Aug 23 2007, 05:00 PM']Hey guys.

My main bass is a MIJ '75 Jazz reissue. I like it an awful lot, but it's pretty noisy around any kind of electronics (up to and including my amp and POD!). I need to keep my fingers on a string or the bridge almost constantly. It becomes noticeably worse if I turn the volume down on one of the pickups (I like to rolll a little off the neck to give it a bit more 'bite'.

Is this just a shielding issue? Is it a pickup issue? Can I take it into a shop and get it properly shielded by an hexpert and make this noise go away? Does anyone have a reccomendation of somewhere in Lnodnon to get this done?

Be careful about tempting me with new pickups. All this talk of Wizard here is giving me GAS!

Cheers![/quote]

Did you look here first?
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=194"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=194[/url]

This is why we have pinned topics! :)

Shielding a bass is relatively straight forward once you have some adhesive copper foil or tape. I've done it myself and its a cinch to get a neat looking job if you have a sharp blade to trim the overlap off. See if your local maplins or electronics supply store has some perhaps? Or maybe check out [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Guitar-Shielding-Tape-High-Spec-Adhesive-Copper-Foil_W0QQitemZ250154745707QQihZ015QQcategoryZ42455QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]ebay[/url]?

Your hum issue may be as much a product of your surroundings as it is of your bass. Shielding the control cavity may only address one area where hum can be picked up by your bass, the wires leading to the pickups too and pickups can also act as receptors. In fact, single coil pickups are fairly notorious for picking up hum when only one is being used at a time.

It might be worth looking at alternative "stacked" jazz pickups if you really like your bass or saving to upgrade to a bass with humbuckers perhaps?

If you decide to get a tech to look at it, there is another pinned topic in this Repairs forum with a set of recommendations.
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=253"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=253[/url]

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