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To fix the problem fully you will need to line the control and switch cavities with copper foil tape. But on modern Gibsons, there's one single place the noise gets in more than anywhere else, which is the unshielded cores of the cable that runs into the control cavity from the switch. These are left far too long, and shortening them all - especially the one that goes to the jack cable terminal - will noticeably improve things.
PRS seems to have made a deliberate decision to do stupid things like this too, yes - my Hollowbody had eight inches of totally unshielded wire between the switch and the volume control, so of course it buzzed. I replaced it with proper shielded cable and the problem stopped...
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