Eddiecurbside Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Has anyone heard of or ever tried to use 2 ground wires to ground the hardware from the tail piece. Also when you ground the tail piece of a lp do you need to solder the wire to the stud? Because the feed back that i'm getting goes away when I touch the bridge or tail piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 you only need one. two could create a ground loop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpm99 Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Consider the tailpiece and all the string as a long area through which electricity can flow freely. You connect that area to ground so any small amounts of electricity will be funneled to ground, rather than through whatever's running to your amp, which would create buzz. So you can connect ground to anyplace that connects electrically to your strings, which would probably include studs. You could actually connect a ground wire to the strings themselves, but that would be dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 most commercial studs have a hole for you to solder in the ground wire. not all of them mind you but its quite easy enough to drill a small hole in it and utilizing the proper gauge wire solder it in with a torch will heat the entire area much quicker than a typical iron. also i recommend a vise and a drill press if you have to drill this yourself otherwise it can get messy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddiecurbside Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 should i solder the ground wire to the bottom or side of the stud. its a standard tun o matic tail piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 i generally just trap it in place, not usually any need to solder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddiecurbside Posted December 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 yeah but i'm betting a really bad medium gain buzz that only subsides when I touch the hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpm99 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Eddie, it's a grounding issue, but I don't think it's what you're thinking. Obviously, you're getting a good connection between the tailpiece and the ground. If you weren't, touching the tailpiece wouldn't make the buzz go away. It's somewhere else in your wiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddiecurbside Posted December 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 does anyone know of any good troubleshooting resources on this topic then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marossy Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Are you sure that you don't have the ground & "hot" wires reversed on your output jack? Your buzzing symptoms sound a lot like the same symptoms as people get when those two wires get crossed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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