Are all of your passive guitars shielded with/to strings?

[CronosBeyond]

I recently switched in my two guitars from active pickups to passive ones. To make it short: in my ESP Horizon with very short cable ways, no grounding to the strings was necessary to avoid hum - the guitar is dead quiet.

Unlike my LTD EC, where I have hum. Cable runs are much longer in the LTD due to the long way to the 3-way switch. So I connected the ground to the strings (like recommended in every forum) and the noise is gone.

So the question came up in my head: how are things going in your guitars? All passive ones shielded with strings?

 

[Trevoire520]

Pretty sure that it's standard practice in passive guitars. Every one I've had has the ground connected to the bridge.

 

[006]

Yea, all passive setups need to have that. Actives do not, though.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

Passives require the strings be grounded. Actives are optional. My Agile with EMGs came with the strings grounded...dead fucking quiet, noise is not an issue with that guitar.

 

[JakeAC5253]

Agile with EMGs

Completely off topic, but I was just looking at getting one of these myself! Oh man those baritone 7's are nice looking guitars, specs and bodystyle, and I'd probably throw some 81-7's in there. I already have an Agile bass that was well worth the money I paid for it, so what the hell, why not how do you like yours? Which model did you get?

 

[TheWinterSnow]

Completely off topic, but I was just looking at getting one of these myself! Oh man those baritone 7's are nice looking guitars, specs and bodystyle, and I'd probably throw some 81-7's in there. I already have an Agile bass that was well worth the money I paid for it, so what the hell, why not how do you like yours? Which model did you get?

I have the Interceptor Pro 625 EB Black Flame. Absolutely love it, although the truss rod needs to be re-threaded (doesn't have enough threads to compensate for string tnesion) and needs to be refretted, the worst fret job I have ever seen outside a $100 First Act. $300 worth of work and it will play as good as any ESP standard models I have played, including the George Lynch signature which is an amazing guitar btw. My only complaint is that the ebony is a little lack luster when you are really inspecting it, but still looks one thousand times better than say Carvin's Ebony boards.