Well, single coil pickups buzz and hum. It's the nature of the beast. Using a noise gate might help, at least by turning off the line when you are not playing. I like the sound of single coil pickups, but it is always a battle against buzz and hum. Adding some shielding might reduce the problem, but the single coil pickups themselves just pickup noise. One thing you can try to reduce the noise is to rotate yourself around. You will probably find a polar alignment that has less noise than others. Not so useful live, but helpful in the studio. Also, stay way far away from any CRT, like a TV or CRT tube type computer monitors. These things put out huge amounts of interference that your single coils will amplify. I fianlly went to all LCD flat panel monitors in the studio. It really helped reduce the noise my guitars pickup.
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