How To fix a Microphonic Pickup Dylanpickups Quick Tip #91

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[AmericanMonster]

I did this on my Firefly 335. It went from squealing like a pig (unplayable) to a real tone monster with great controllable feedback. Improvement was 100% on the neck pup and ~90% on the bridge pup. You saved me some dough and hassle of replacing the pups! Thanks very much!

[INeverWanted]

Just tried this with an old Epiphone SG. The bridge squealed like crazy! But I loved how the pickup itself sounded so I didn't want to replace it... Your method worked perfectly! No more squealing and the tone is still there. THANK YOU!

Oddly, the hardest part was getting the dang cover off.

[alexcorona]

This is going to sound nuts but all I used was a pice of tape between the cover and bobbins and it’s not microphonic at all.

The humbucker was wax potted already, I was just wanting to add covers for looks and was not really wanting to wax pot them with the covers on.

I read that tip on a guitar forum and it actually worked. I used this tape I got off amazon called film tape. It’s like electrical tape just twice the thickness and it feels like it has Teflon in it.

I play ridiculously high gain with a REVV 100 watt head and pushing it with a screamer. No micro-phonics at all.

I’m currently wax potting a set of Jazzmaster pickups and to my surprise there is not a single video on YouTube showing it.

They’re not vintage pickups so not worrying about ruining them.

[HerbonGuitar]

I did this today to my 1990 Gibson LP Studio, it worked great. Thanks man!!!

[guitarsfunmods]

I saw other videos from you, which you put the whole thing, the bucker still attached with the metal cover into the pot wax.
It was way way easier than opening the cover, which is really hard to do.
Just put the whole thing in the pot wax, just let the wax enter the gap between the pickup and the cover.
And with this method, the wax can cure every other part beside the pickup cover, which is maybe also moving which can cause unwanted feedback/squeal.
My pickup did great after the pot wax. Before my pickup squealed at around volume 5. After the pot wax, had no squeal at all even at volume 10.

[benbrucato]

I have a 2019 SG Standard with stock pups and the bridge pup is really microphonic. I’m not getting problems with squeezing, but if my pick hits the pickup when strumming/plucking, the sound comes through pretty loudly. Because of the extreme neck angle, the bridge pickup has to sit fairly high, so this can’t be resolved entirely with better picking technique. Would the fix shown in this video resolve this problem as well?

[thendara]

wow! great vid. you can really hear the difference!

[bgfthntr]

It my old '95 Gibson 490R was squealing after a magnet swap. I un-soldered the cover put in some wax and heated it with my wife's hair dryer. Re-soldered and whola! no more squeal!!!

[petkopeet]

Should I heat it with heat gun on hair dryer is safer?

[gearoidwalsh]

what if it's an open coil humbucker?

[bikersoncall]

Great tip, but pickups with no covers
can also squeal to wake the dead.

[toki]

Hi Dylan! How would you proceed for same problem finding on a Telly? I've just installed handmade P90 and a slightly overwound single coil, and the manufacturer swears they are super potted. What do you recommend me to do? I even hear the noise of the pickup shift switch... Could it be possible that it is the capacitor (instead of the pickups) to be microphonic!? Thank you mate!

[kcchan]

can I just use some bits of candle instead of paraffin?

[glanderguitars]

What if the humbucker doesn't have a cover... Do you have a trick for that? You know, open hummers.

[surefire]

Great way man without having to use the hot pot plus you get a wonderful smell Namaste🤙🤪

[mikec]

is it normal for my pickups to pick up some tapping from me tapping the pickup with my finger or tapping my body with the pick? thanks

[laurencelock]

Nice idea! I’m gonna try this. I’m assuming it won’t affect tone like fully potting the pickup does?

[jimcamp]

You could always just rub the wax inside the cover & build it up like surfers do on a surfboard, heat it with a hair dryer those get as hot as 140* F ? I live in FL, so the sun will melt the wax too. Then there's making a solar oven that can get pretty hot too ? Inside of your car is 130 degrees ?

[joemanuel]

Thanks for the tip i will solve some of my problems

[stratocastermaster]

tried it with old t top didn't work