Co0lCat

A new emg 57 gold is $139+tax, a new set is 249+tax, I found a new set for $135+tax off Reverb because there's a blemish no one can even see! Lucky me

well I installed a new quick connect system...bridge pup is still humming bad...the neck pup is fine...time to buy a new gold 57

Unfortunately that doesn't explain why now the neck pickup isn't humming and the bridge still is...regardless I will be swapping the pup positions this will tell me if the bridge pup is defective...if this doesn't solve the problem I intend to replace all the controls with a complete quick connect system

yes that wire...it's connected through the ground on all the pups and 3 way switch, I had already thought about the paint...I'm starting to think it's a bad pickup wince the neck pup is not humming now. tomorrow I'm swapping them out, if it hums in the neck position then it's the pickup and I'm just buying a new one...weird, as I stated I've used EMGs for 50 years I've never had one go bad before

I didn't read that last part right... that does nothing, but since I removed those redundant ground wires only the bridge pickup is making the hum now. I'm going to swap the bridge and neck tomorrow to see if it's the bridge pickup that bad...which would be a first in my over 40 years of using EMGs

yes of course double checked....not sure if they made it so you can't do this, but before quick connects, if you soldered them in wrong you could ruin the preamp in the pickup.,..but I didn't do that, I've swapped out EMGs in my other guitars but they don't make this humming...I removed the black wire from the master tone pot to the two volumes because that was redundant as everything is already grounded through the controls, which proved to be correct after I removed them and checked for the ground continuity on all the controls which was all good....I wonder why they added the extra ground wire, surely I thought this was the ground loop, and it very well may have been part of it...so I removed them but I still have some hum...

i think this is a ground loop!

In 2011 I bought brand new a LTD EC-1000D, it came with a quick connect 81/60 EMG set soldered to the controls. I recently unplugged the 81/60 set and just plugged in a 57/66 set, but it's really noisy and hums...I use ENGL tube amps. I have a 94 Gibson SG with 81/85 set and it's not humming or noisy, neither is my LTD MH-250 with 81/H set, I have a 98 Les Paul with old DiMarzio Distortion 2's in it and it's not noisy at all. I don't understand this, I didn't disturb the cavity control, I didn't have to because all I did was remove the pups from the top unplugged them and then just plugged in the new EMGS...(yes properly I double checked). What could be causing this? I have some left over EMG quick connect parts to replace all the controls in the EC, would this help? I notice that my soldered setup is like any other with a capacitor on the tone pot, but there is a tiny integrated cap on the tone quick connect...could this be why? I haven't changed out the parts yet because I want some input.