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Vintage Guitars and Basses => Gibson basses => Topic started by: sfericean on November 05, 2007, 06:09:57 AM
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Ok...I finally got a Gibson Les Paul Standard Bass....Super excited!!! I came in via FedEx all safe and sound...I plug it in and BAM! 60 cycle hum...Or something really close to that sound.
Now I've been playing for 10 years and I've owned over 20 basses and not one has hummed as loud as this. I know that all bassess and guitars have hum but in comparison to the other hum I've heard from other basses that I've owned this takes the cake.
Ive taken it to 2 different techs and both of them told me that there really isn't much I can do. A sheilding job won't help they said and I had an electrician friend of mine check all the grounding possible and everything seems fine.
For the love of God somebody please shoot me a ray of hope here and and tell me there's a way to get rid of this noise. I'm going on monday to take it to the third tech who is also a official gibson warranty fixer guy. I'm thinking the pickups are just plain deffective...
This isn't microphonic hum or the pickups have been wired wrong type hum the pickups work fine, there's just a loud 60 cycle type hum when I plug it in. Doesn't matter how close or how far I am from the amp.
Please help is this a common thing on Les Paul Standard Basses? I have another Les Paul Bass (that fancy worn brown one that they sell now and it's whisper quite.) I'm sure I can get that one to hum too however I really got to turn up the highs or the overall volume on my amp to even come close to mimicing this hum.
Once again I thank you all for reading and any help would be much appriciated..
STEVE
sfericean@yahoo.com (sfericean@yahoo.com)
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It's not normal, Les Paul Standard pups are hot, but not noisy. You should send Gibson an email and ask them what the problem could be. Maybe a pup winding issue.
Uwe