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Can you try running a fly lead from the control plate or bridge to the earth on the jack socket body? See if the noise goes away?
Anyone who knows about this stuff care to comment on this idea?
If it's still too noisy it may need (more) shielding or the wiring tidying up, or both.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
When you're not touching the strings your body is acting as an antenna to various noises in the room, which the guitar then hears. Touching the strings sends those noises straight to ground rather than through the guitar/amp and it all goes quiet.
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Most modern guitars have at least slightly better shielding, often conductive paint in the control and pickup cavities, or more use of shielded wire. Even then, there's usually a noticeable increase in noise if you're not touching the strings.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Those guys offer a fantastic health check free of charge and have put worries like this away for me before, where it turned out nothing was wrong.
Its funny, I have a Fender Tele too, and I plug in to my katana on its half a watt setting, crank the gain or use a metal muff and at moderate bedroom levels, theres nothing worse buzzing or hunning than two of my humbucker guitars.
I know its not mad volume, but I expected more noise with single coils.
Quite impressed with it tbh.
I bet if I plug in when I'm home and check it out, there would actually be some buzz that stops when I touch metal parts, but I guess its not in the realms of being annoying so I've never really noticed it too much.
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