Re: OT: Electric Guitar - fix for static noise?

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

Per,
Are the strings on your guitar grounded?

  Gaffer tape is not likely to fix this problem. You need to remove 
the pickgaurd and apply a piece of alluminum or copper foil, or tape 
and make sure that this is properly grounded. THis will help 
dissipate the static charge.

-CZ

>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)
>http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
>http://www.myspace.com/looproom


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