{"id":2769,"date":"2013-01-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:28:40","slug":"static-weirdness-with-bass-guitars-part-2-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/pickup\/static-weirdness-with-bass-guitars-part-2-pickups.html","title":{"rendered":"Static Weirdness With Bass Guitars Part 2: Pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pickup can produce popping noises from human touch<\/em> if the magnets or pole pieces aren’t grounded correctly, or not grounded well enough.<\/p>\n

One solution to this is to, and I’m directly quoting here<\/strong><\/a>, “apply conductive copper foil with conductive adhesive against the bottom of the pickups and run a new wire to ground.”<\/p>\n

That linked article explains everything you’d ever want to know about why you would want to do this, why swapping the hot\/common wires doesn’t<\/em> work, why pickup manufacturers even knowing there’s a grounding issue<\/em> will continue to wind a pickup one way and not the other, and you’ll even get to see graphs on what actually happens with human touch vs. no human touch.<\/p>\n

If you as a builder built a bass for a customer (or yourself), and the pickups pop when touched and you *know* you’ve done every single thing you can to fix it but nothing has worked, try the copper foil option.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There have been many a builder\/luthier who have built basses where that damned pickup popping starts and they’ve pulled out their hair trying to figure out what the problem was; this is especially frustrating when one player (such as yourself) encounters no popping but the person you built it for does. And as the builder knows, swapping the pickups out with the same exact set doesn’t fix the popping issue.<\/p>\n

The end result is that yes, some people are just more naturally conductive than others and will cause pickups to pop no matter what. And while applying conductive copper foil against the bottom of the pickups does combat pickup popping, it’s not a guaranteed solution<\/em>…<\/p>\n

…but at least it gives you another option to solve a pickup popping problem, should it present itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pickup can produce popping noises from human touch if the magnets or pole pieces aren’t grounded correctly, or not grounded well enough. One solution to this is to, and I’m directly quoting here, “apply conductive copper foil with conductive adhesive against the bottom of the pickups and run a new wire to ground.” That … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}