oldskoolstreet
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My take for all the types of wires to solder to your switch, pickups, potentiometers, tone cap under your pickguard or into your guitar body :
Shielded wire is good to use from the input jack to the volume pot. Ground only one end of the shielded braid. This helps filter out some unwanted noise and sends it right to ground. I've also used shielded wire in a few DIY pedals to help cut down on RF interference along with the usual small cap to ground tricks.
All pickup wires (99%) have shielded leads. Shielded wire protects against interferance (60s cycle hum) . You can also shield your guitar (if it isn't already shielded) with adhesive backed copper foil.
Most cloth wires are only for looks and do not filter noise, and in fact cause a whole lot of interferences. This affects your pickup's correct magnetic output with above standard tolerance values. So I will not really go for cloth wiring but probably wiring in the style of Gibsons on a Fender. DiMarzio's and Seymour Duncan's pretty much know what I mean here, so their pickups are wired with fantastic shielding underneath the PVC covers.
For this reason, a lot of old and new Fender guitars are unable to cancel hum unless their pickguards are shielded, have you ever wondered why Fender guitars don't seem to look grounded after much efforts? Big reason is the pickup wires. They aren't really shielded. Instead the pickups are shielded with tape which in fact isn't that good. I have tried shielding with thread over pickups and it's the best.
My 2 cents worth perhaps!
Shielded wire is good to use from the input jack to the volume pot. Ground only one end of the shielded braid. This helps filter out some unwanted noise and sends it right to ground. I've also used shielded wire in a few DIY pedals to help cut down on RF interference along with the usual small cap to ground tricks.
All pickup wires (99%) have shielded leads. Shielded wire protects against interferance (60s cycle hum) . You can also shield your guitar (if it isn't already shielded) with adhesive backed copper foil.
Most cloth wires are only for looks and do not filter noise, and in fact cause a whole lot of interferences. This affects your pickup's correct magnetic output with above standard tolerance values. So I will not really go for cloth wiring but probably wiring in the style of Gibsons on a Fender. DiMarzio's and Seymour Duncan's pretty much know what I mean here, so their pickups are wired with fantastic shielding underneath the PVC covers.
For this reason, a lot of old and new Fender guitars are unable to cancel hum unless their pickguards are shielded, have you ever wondered why Fender guitars don't seem to look grounded after much efforts? Big reason is the pickup wires. They aren't really shielded. Instead the pickups are shielded with tape which in fact isn't that good. I have tried shielding with thread over pickups and it's the best.
My 2 cents worth perhaps!
