RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

grady wrote:
> Some questions:
>
> 1) does it act more or less the same regardless of which pickup you're 
> switched to?
Mostly neck pick up.  Occasionally the middle pick up, but to a less 
extent.  Couldn't make the bridge pick up do it just now, so maybe it is 
immune.  There's also with this guitar, like most guitars, noise that 
changes or goes away when you touch the strings.  Interestingly, this 
noise is not present with the bridge pickup--ie taking my hands on or 
off the strings doesn't  change the noise characteristics of the guitar 
with this pickup, but does with the other pickups.  I suspect some sort 
of electrical interaction with my body is at the root (my electric 
personality), so I suppose figuring out why the bridge pickup is immune, 
might help me figure out how to fix the bridge and middle pickups.

Possibly the dryer sheet the manufacturer stuffed under the pick guard 
is bunched up near the bridge?  I haven't opened it up yet to check 
their handiwork.  Maybe tonight.

> 2) how does the position of your right hand w/r/t the bridge change when 
> you're playing chords with the pick vs single notes or fingerpicking?
Not much.

> 3) What exactly does this circuit look like (I haven't had a guitar open 
> in 22+ years, and that one was a real POS anyway)? Specifically, if you 
> took it DI through a transformer DI with a ground lift, could you cut 
> this ground wire entirely & still get signal, so as to confirm/deny that 
> the wire is the issue? Or could you readily reconfigure the circuit so 
> as to make that happen? I'm asking because you honestly don't know for 
> sure that it isn't one of the pickups, or something funky in one of the 
> pots. It seems mechanical, but . . .
Haven't opened up the main cavity yet, just the cavity in the back for 
the bridge/groundplate.  But here's a schematic:

http://www.glguitars.com/schematics/Legacy_schematic_drawing.pdf

This doesn't make complete sense to me, though, since the connection 
between the bridge and the ground plate is made via the springs that 
tension the bridge.  There is no black wire from the bridge to the 
ground plate as the schematic shows.  Maybe there should be?

chris