Help! What's wrong with my tele?

Ron S · October 31st, 2003, 07:27 PM

Playing my tele today I realised that when I touch the front pup I get a buzzing sound. I recently replaced the bridge Pup with a Nocaster, but hadn't noticed till now.

Can anyone suggest why & what to do to get rid of this, I tend to touch the front Pup alot when I play and this is pretty annoying now I've heard it. Please help!
Ron S

Strat82 · October 31st, 2003, 08:12 PM

did you replace the pickup yourself?
did someone do it for you?

Kevin · October 31st, 2003, 09:08 PM

Did you reverse-wire the pup for some reason? Sounds like you've got the ground wire run to hot and vice-versa. Sometimes you have to do that because of phasing problems with your other pup. If so, you need to switch the cover's ground wire to the other eyelet, as right now it is run to hot.

October 31st, 2003, 07:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ron S Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 184	Help! What's wrong with my tele? Playing my tele today I realised that when I touch the front pup I get a buzzing sound. I recently replaced the bridge Pup with a Nocaster, but hadn't noticed till now. Can anyone suggest why & what to do to get rid of this, I tend to touch the front Pup alot when I play and this is pretty annoying now I've heard it. Please help! Ron S

October 31st, 2003, 08:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
Strat82 Tele-Meister Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In the Southwest Age: 26 Posts: 374	hmm... did you replace the pickup yourself? did someone do it for you?

October 31st, 2003, 09:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
Kevin Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Terre Haute, IN Posts: 2,967	Did you reverse-wire the pup for some reason? Sounds like you've got the ground wire run to hot and vice-versa. Sometimes you have to do that because of phasing problems with your other pup. If so, you need to switch the cover's ground wire to the other eyelet, as right now it is run to hot.