Les Paul Guitar Shielding with Copper Tape with Before and After
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Shielded my '95 Les Paul Goth with copper tape...
music:
Primus - ""Tommy the Cat""
Live From Which Stage on Friday June 10th, 2011
Back to the Farm - The Bonnaroo Classics
gear used:
Les Paul - Line 6 Pod XT Pro - Scarlett interface.
Recorded in Reaper.
The Line 6 patch was basically a tube amp with high drive without noise gate with cab sim.
50mm copper tape with conductive adhesive was used.
I shielded my Les Paul and the noise is gone completely. I use amp sims on a laptop and the noise was unbearable. I copper shielded the switch and control cavities, and also the jack hole(you have to make sure the jack connector doesn't touch the copper otherwise no sound. I just used a tape to avoid this). No wire used to connect switch and control cavities, since the switch is grounded and I made sure both the switch and control pots all touch the shielding, this way both cavities get connected. Now noise is literally non existent, even when using a lot of gain and distortion. The only noise left is when I use the coil split, but that is common on single coil pickups and AFAIK that can't be removed with shielding. But it's not very noticeable. I hope this helps.
Got me at primus.. cheers
Is the ground wire running to your bridge or tailpiece? That seems to be your problem.
Agreed
Nobody:
Guitar Players: **a fly lands on their guitar**
"The tone was definitely affected. I lost a lot of sustain and warmth"
I'm gonna do it today, so now I won't be disapointed if the noise doesn't go off completely. Every single vid around here talks about it like it would make some magic and remove all the noise. Thanx for the real demonstration. Still worth it to give it a try since it looks like it will reduce the noise.
still some noise for sure
Read the comments below. ALL CAVITIES MUST BE CONNECTED. and then connected to ground on volume pot,as far as i know.
Im not an expert(EXPERience) on this
Keep the hopes UP
@@DarkoP9.13 Well, I should have let my experience about it. I'm doing now: I have a stratocaster and the shielding helped nothing at all with the noises. But I read a lot about strato and it seems that the noises are always on the way when there's distortion. To be fair, I think that with clean sounds the noises are diminished. Anyway, I only wraped on the pickups cavity. Someday I will try to wrap all the cavities to see what happens. Thanx for your reply!
Well actually it did remove the noise completely on my Les Paul. I use amp sims on my laptop, and the noise was unbearable. Shielded both switch and control cavities, no wire connecting the two but I made sure both the swith and control pots touch the copper shielding (the switch is grounded so it would connect both cavities by touching the copper). Also shielded the jack hole(it's important to make sure the jack connector doesn't touch the copper otherwise there would be no sound, so I had to tape it). Noise is literally non existent, my mind is blown away. The only noise I have is when I use the coil split(this is normal in single coil pickups and I don't think this can be removed with shielding, but it's not an issue for me)... I hope this helps.
@@quantum_net219 You can avoid the electrical tape gooey mess by rolling a piece of paper into a tube and stick it in the hole. You can use a bit of tape to keep it from falling into the control cavity.
Nice job. Nice video. thanks a bunch!
I'm about to commence shielding a LP type guitar. I have read some say you have to ground the shielding to the top of one of the pots but aren't you grounding the shielding if the pots are making contact with the shielding tape?
the HUM just changed note in the noise hahahaha
The hum level dropped a lot, and wasn't as full of overtones (less raspy.) The pickups will always pick up some noise, they are not magnetically shielded, and can't be if you want them to pick up the vibrating strings.
Nice work!
lol @ 0:18 yup thats me
Definitely an improvement, im in the middle of doing the same to my SG along with brand new wiring harness. Did you check your ground wire from the bridge pin? and PRIMUS SUCKS!!!
My Epiphone Lp has a low sound like the after but there is no shielding at all would I benefit from shielding it or would it be no use
not sure. a lot of other factors could be causing that sound
Make sure that both pickup cavities are grounded by soldering a small wire from one volume pot to them. Or better, from the electronics cavity to both of them.
@@glassbox7761 thanks. will try this. what about the switch cavity?
@@moiseszee I had a really noisy guitar with two humbuckers and I shielded everything, switch cavity included. Now that's the quietest guitar I own. For the switch cavity there's no need of grounding it with a wire, because the switch itself is grounded and it's in close contact with the shielding. But yes, of course, you have to shield that small cavity too. The pickup cavities need to be grounded because the pickups ground wire is not in close contact with the shielding.
@@moiseszeemake sure you don't make a ground loop with wires, because ground loops work as antennas. That's why all grounding wires come from the same spot, like a tree branch.
Any noticeable loss of sustain?
Shielding just makes a Faraday Cage, wich isolates your guitar from external electromagnetical signals (like Wi-fi, TV, microwaves, etc). It doesn't affect your instrument's resonance.
awful non-music track playing ... skip it.
that my wife said said LOL 🤣