https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:51:19 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-348717 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:35:53 +0000
The connection concerning this problem is where the cord plugs into your guitar. There are two wires there.
REVERSE them. Especially if you have had work done on your guitar by ANYONE. My connection was loose. I
pulled off the whole thing and soldered it back together (just 2 wires). When i tested it it sounded fine, ONLY because
i has amp set on CLEAN. When I got ready to rock, all good until i touched the strings. Then, "HMMMMM"!!.
Basically what i call a 'reverse ground effect', if such a thing is real. When I re-soldered them back (just 2 wires again),
the opposite way, BOOM, problem solved, and i went on to rock the nation. thank you. we love you. goodnight!!]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Dogfacedboy https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-348717 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-331794 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:35:06 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-331794 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-331793 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:20:04 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-331793 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-331777 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:29:01 +0000
I had tip and ring mixed up...

What a noob!]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance johnlo https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-331777 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318653 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:21:30 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318653 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318649 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:43:49 +0000 actually, i'm currently living in Beijing,China. and dont know any "good" places to repair guitar there... so the repair was done in a small guitar shop, for a quite cheap price ... and done by a guy who didn't really look like a professional :? . but i didn't have the choice.
He first didn't even want to admit that he made a mistake and told me that the 'hum' (which was terrible..) was normal :lol: . I had to insist to make him reverse the connections hahaha...
and no... only this guy there..nobody interesting enough to make the trip back less frustrating :lol:]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance greg kfm https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318649 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318646 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:26 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318646 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318639 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:58:24 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318639 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318635 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:35:14 +0000
really gotta wonder why they switched them in the first place.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318635 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318634 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:32:06 +0000
problem solved!thx

your answer was a bit complicated to me...lool...took me some time to understand the details of how electronics in a guitar work. And before going back to the store to tell them they didn't do their job :evil: , i wanted to make myself sure to understand what i was gonna talk about... :oops: lool

So they just "switched" back the wires to normal and now everything works perfectly fine, and i know stuff about guitars that i probably wouldn't have learn if i didn't have this problem!!

So..Great "Thanks"!!!!!]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance greg kfm https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/humming-when-you-touch-the-strings-pls-help/#post-318634