Shielding a 52 Hot Rod?

Is there any point in shielding the cavities of a 52 Hot Rod RI since a mini HB is hum canceling?

I played a gig last week and was unable to use my guitar as something was interfering with it and making an insanely LOUD hum (one of the sound guys actually said it sounded like a chainsaw!!!). I spent an 1 hr 1/2 trying without the amp, even without any pedals directly into a DI, different cables... but couldn't get rid of the racket. It is the first time I ever encountered a problem with this guitar. I'll probably be playing that venue again and would love to use the HR. Any ideas?

-Jagg

Were you getting noise in position 3 (Neck/HB only)?

That sounds like something other than the normal 60 cycle hum. Does it do that at home? I would take an outlet tester to the venue and see if something's wrong with the wiring. You'd be surprised what club owners or the regular customer that's doing electric work for free beer will do. I had that exact problem once at a local club. Turns out the three prong outlet on my side of the stage only had two wires connected to it with no metal conduit to ground it back to the breaker panel. We ran a ground wire from the outlet through the crawl space under the stage and clamped it to a piece of conduit on the other side. It wasn't pretty but it worked.

***** UPDATE *****

After some testing, it only happened at this venue. It's a newly built arena and they had a big stage setup with the light show and the whole 9 yards (not for us - country act Aaron Tippin was playing the same venue 2 nights later). Anyhow, I haven't been able to reproduce that noise at any of the other venues since. So I'll leave it as is for now. Thanks!

-Jagg