Attention singlecoil users (i.e. most of you)

Richie

Today I'm going to attempt to fit a dummy coil in my jaguar to fully rid myself of the noise my bridge pickup produces. I've taken the magnets out of one of the old CIJ pickups and am going to wire it in parallel to the bridge pickup, and tape it in under the scratchplate. According to a number of internet resources I've read, this should make it hum-cancelling without altering the sound. If all goes as planned, I'm sure it'll make everyone else with noise issues very happy.

Wish me luck! 😉

tragictravisty

nice! tell us how it goes. although it could hurt sustain slightly... but jaguars arent meant for sustain anywa

Richie

I ended up royally messing it up. 😆

First I tried completely taking the thing apart in order to fit it into the cable routes under scratchplate, which *did* get rid of a lot of the noise but broke every time I pushed it into the route, and I ended up applying that much insulation that I couldn't get in to fix it. This was only connected to the bridge pickup also.

Second attempt with another spare pickup, I tried to simply wire the dummy coil to the jack socket and stick it in the control cavity, thereby affecting both pickups (both are the same polarity, no humbucking middle position for me). For some reason this made the noise worse.

As such I gave up. If I get hold of another spare CIJ pickup I'll give it another shot, but I'm leaving it for now, I don't have the patience. I'll be going with the first method again though, seeing as before I broke it it did yield very impressive results.

tylerfender

😆 well at least we know it works until it messes up.

AnotherTool

Do you have shielding in the cavities Richie?

You complain about the noise factor, and i know how bad it can get, but the shielding clears 90 odd % of it right up. And if you're still not happy with that, time to source some lace sensors!

Richie

Yeah, I shielded that mother to death. It's the bridge pickup I use, the Vintage Vibe Jg-90. They sound awesome but they buzz something terrible. I've tried pretty much everything now, including modding it to fit the shielding claw. The dummy coil worked but as I say broke when I tried to slot it in.

I've had a Lace Sensor Red in the bridge in the past, which was good distorted but had not clean definition, and it didn't look too great. I'm toying with the idea of buying a pair of the Holy Grails and seeing if I can adiquately mod them to fit into a jag pickup cover and use the claw, but that's only going to happen when I have some money to burn.

kidwaJstang

The dummy coil mod works absolutly awesome if you get it wired and installed properly. My strat had it done to it when I bought it. Sounds like a Strat, but zero hum!! I've played w/ the Fender noiseless p/u's, and they just didn't sound right to me, but w/ this mod, you can get the true tone of the real P/Ups and not have to deal w/ any noise. Good luck on getting it done though, I've taken a look under the hood of my Strat and it is one crazy jumble of wires down there....