RS1500 Pickup questions

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Author Message Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 11:08 pm:    Is there any way to get rid of the hum? I love the sound of this axe, but it is noticeably noisey. Any wiring tricks that i could do to get rid of, or minimize it? I don't want to change the pickups. Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Monday, December 25, 2006 - 4:21 pm:    Just one more reason why I don't like single coils... But I digress. Check this out: http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/shielding/shield3.php The Bear Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 1:53 pm:    Yeah, it is kind of a pain. I wondered why someone who covets roadstars like you would get rid of one so pretty, now I know. I still love the feel and sound in addition to the musician-esque look. I appreciate the link, Merry Christmas Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 4:00 pm:    Not that I give a flyin' rusty cluck, but this is in the wrong topic. Shoulda been under "Cool Contemporary Electrics". The Bear Cmangeot Username: Cmangeot Registered: 04-2005 Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 9:00 pm:    Yeah maybe, I guess, but hey, it is almost 24 years old... And it is a roadstar "custom"... I don't care either, the last thing we need is another arguement over semantics. Mr_roadstar Username: Mr_roadstar Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 8:07 pm:    Naw, it's purely a year of origin thing. Johns and I have already had a discussion about the break point for "Vintage & Custom" vs "Cool Contemporary". He picked 1979 / '80 for good reason. I would have made the split at 1982 / '83 The Bear Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 05-2006 Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 10:15 pm:    Bear, I've been wondering for some time: what good reason? And why would you have made the split at 1982/'83 and not for instance at 1986/'87? (The year they moved Artist production to Terada and Iida). Has it got something to do with 25 years of age? It's all quite arbitrary. Why discuss brand new reissues in the same topic as the over 30 years old 2405 Custom Agent? Johns must of course make such decisions in order to keep the number of topics limited. If we would have 64 topics, we wouldn't know where to look. Personally I would like to have a topic "Solid body Artist guitars", a topic "Musicians" and a topic "ST (Studio), BL (Blazer) and SB (Studio/Blazer mix) and Roadsters and Roadstars" And if I look at the last one, I could split it in 5 new topics. We see this in biology too. There are "splitters" and "lumpers". The splitters are very correct and precise, but there are a lot of people who are getting sick and tired of it. It's like a book with a new chapter for each sentence. Ginger Bluesmeister Username: Bluesmeister Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 11:09 pm:    If the term "vintage" is used with respect to a minimum period of time, let's say for example 25 years prior to the current year, then a 24 year old contemporary guitar would become a vintage guitar in a year's time. In that respect, the Vintage/Contemporary cut-off point will always be advancing each year. However, I'm happy enough to go along with JohnS's decision that the cut-off point for Ibanez vintage status is 1979/80 so far as ICW is concerned. Johns Username: Johns Registered: 02-2001 Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 7:45 pm:    Besides moving this thread to the correct section (my bad for not doing it earlier), I've started a new thread in the Miscellaneous section for discussing a new section/category reorganization.

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