{"id":829,"date":"2012-04-17T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=829"},"modified":"2012-07-18T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T21:16:40","slug":"tips-and-tricks-staying-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/pickup\/tips-and-tricks-staying-grounded.html","title":{"rendered":"Tips and Tricks: Staying grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jsome1\/477085398\/\">Picture courtesy of\u00a0Feliciano\u00a0Guimar\u00e3es<\/a><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Recently a BBG customer was wondering if some buzz from his Bartolini pickups could have been a grounding issue. He noticed it went away when he touched the strings, so he reached to our expert tech Max for a little insight on staying grounded.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Guitar and bass electronics require an earth or ground to have a quiet\u00a0operation. There is a path for the ground back to the amplifier via the jack, guitar cord, or amp input, but that&#8217;s \u00a0also how the noise on the ground gets into your signal.<\/p>\n<p>Energy is lazy and will always take the easy way out. The solution for this is to give a more direct path to ground for the energy to follow. However, since guitars and basses are hanging 4 feet off the ground when you strap one on, the only path to ground is though the human body of the player, which is also a conductor.<\/p>\n<p>This is the purpose of having the bridge &#8211; and in turn the strings &#8211; connected to the ground of the instrument. When you touch the string you are completing a shorter path to ground for the minute neutral energies in your instrument. For this reason it is normal for it to be nosier when you don&#8217;t touch the strings or bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Not a really big deal because you have to be touching the string to play the instrument anyway, but you should definitely make the habit of rolling the instrument volume all the way down when you stop to take a drink of water, and not subject anyone or yourself to the additional noise of an ungrounded instrument.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Max<br \/>\nBest Bass Gear tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering if some buzz from his pickups could have been a grounding issue, a BBG custumer reached to our expert tech Max for insight on staying grounded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}