Re: Electric Guitar - fix for static noise?

["CV" <c.voit@vtx.ch>]

Per

some other ideas
other shoes, no shoes, antistatic spray, acrill clothing?,wool clothing,  a
conductive copper foil under the pickguard tied to  guitar ground, are your
strings to the ground ?, change the pickguard ?

Have an extstatic day

Claude





>I have a wonderful Stratocaster, but whenever I briefly touch the  pick
>guard with my right hands pinky (which happens all the time when  you 
>play)
>a small amount of static power is built up and creates an  unpleasant 
>audio
>artifact. This must be a well known issue for all  you guitar craft savvy
>people on this list? How can it be fixed?
>
> This Strat has a great sound except for that static power noise. I  have
> brought it when doing studio musician labor and my  producers  have 
>always
> picked this guitar before any other. But at such  important recordings I
> have been forced to play in an uncomfortable  way, making sure I never
> touch the pick guard by mistake, or putting  loads of Gaffa Tape on the
> pick guard, making the Strat look like a  piece of junk (which it 
>actually
> is, because I partly built it  myself). Now I've finally set my mind on
> fixing this noise issue one  time for all, since I'm going to use this
> guitar for looping at a  public guitar show later this spring. Don't want
> those "little noise  sprouts" to get multiplied in my loops.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
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> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
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