Mandolin Hum

[baddog]

How can i get rid of the hum coming from my mandolin single coil pickup? Its a newer fender style. I have it running into a wireless system and a small solid state guitar amp. I think i need to change the pots because when i turn the volume down it crackles and i loose the sound . I tried to clean the pots but it didn't help.


thanks
Baddog

[David Schwab]

Single coil pickups hum. You can try to add shielding to the mandolin, it might make it better, but you will never have a single coil that doesn't hum.

Best bet is to replace the pickup with a humcancling unit that fits into a single coil housing. There's lots of them for Strats and the like.