I think i'll try a noise gate. Any recommendations / any I should steer clear of - given the nature of the problem?

Steve wrote:I'm actually surprised the SD pickups aren't potted already.

I was too. They weren't cheap.

Charlie D wrote:Cajun, I had the the exact same issue with my Jag. What kind of Seymour Duncans did you swap for?

Im pretty sure i went for the s-jag 2s. They cleared up the sound eventhough they are more bassy.

This might be interesting for anyone with the time and money.

This just arrived today! It's cool. The seller said that the electronics don't work, but I plugged it in to see what exactly it was doing: noisy fuzzy crackling, bearing no resemblance to anything the strings were playing. One of the slider switches (controlling the neck pickup) is fucked, so i got...

does anybody here no anything about the guitar brand luxor?

I bought myself a studio projects B-1 and a E-H preamp some time ago, and used it with one of those creative E-MU usb devices (avoid those) - but I hardly ever use it anymore, when an idea comes to my mind, I just opens Audacity and quickly records it with my shitty Acer lap-top build-in microphone,...

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:Can you sing into them?

Well, I cant sing through them, but if sung into they'll produce some undefinable noise - not that loud though. But a more focused air stream, like blowing into them can clearly be heard as a sssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhssssssss-sound.

Ive heard that TAD tubes should be pretty goddamn good, but i havnt tried them.

So ive got this mij ri jaguar, very nice guitar (the best neck ive ever played, better than a vintage sixties a friend of mine bought) - but the stock pick-ups didnt have too much definition nor aggressiveness, so i switch them to a couple of seymour duncans, and they sound good, however, they are n...

Sorry, my mistake. fixed it