Rewinding neck pickup?

a1x · Post by **a1x** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:38 pm

is it possible to have the neck reverse wound to make the pickups hum cancelling when using both. i love my rick, but i play out often and the hum is kind of getting to me. i also read in a thread recently about mu-metal, but can't seem to find any.
does anyone have any recommendations?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:59 pm

This is a way to reduce hum without changing your neck pickup .... I put a Seymour Duncan 1/4 pound jazz neck pickup in the bridge mute slot ... I wire it in with the neck pickup volume control.

Or you can pry off the magnet and glue it on upside down and reverse the + and - wiring

Also a noise gate will cut the hum ...

I play Nu-metal ... www.m2midnight.com

The 4003s5 is a great bass for Nu-metal ...

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:00 pm

Or play a 4004 ... they are real quiet ...

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:58 pm

You can also shield them with sticky copper, I did that to two rics years ago and they were so quiet I could play right in front of neon lights.

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:54 pm

But that's no good, then you don't have any string mutes!!! How do you mute the strings properly? Can you adjust the pickup so that it touches the strings?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:54 pm

hehehehe ... Gene ... it's called palm muting ...