I've had noticably positive results using conductive shielding paint on several guitars. Someone here mentioned in previous threads regarding shielding the pickups themselves, not just the caivities. How is this done and is it feasable to do it with shielding paint as opposed to foil? Applying it to the pickup's plastic and rubber covering, just making sure not to touch any leads, or other signal carriers?
Initialy I plan to shield my 4003 and perhaps later do it to my 660/12.
Shielding Ricky pickups.
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As a matter of fact I got some copper shielding foil/tape from StewMac the other day. I'm proceeding to shield all my instruments with it (including my 4003, and it really made a difference with my hybrid Fender mutt-guitar and its chronic case of pickguard-static-crackle-itis.) There are instructions on how to shield pickups with foil here: http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/I-3789.html though I am not doing this with my own instruments.
I just called my guitar tech to ask her about this subject and she said that copper acts as an antenna. When she gets a guitar to re-wire with copper wiring in it she replaces all of it with silver wire and shields it with adhesive aluminum foil. Mulitple grounds to copper shielding can also cause ground loops. She does all of my basses and they are dead quiet.
In my experience (with past instruments and so far so good with these) I've never had issues with copper shielding, but I'll keep an ear out for any weirdness cuz you just never know, you know.
The control cavities definitely look a lot cleaner without all that ground wire going from pot to pot though.
The control cavities definitely look a lot cleaner without all that ground wire going from pot to pot though.