Here’s a thrilling testimonial from an actual guitar hacker: I was tearing the frankencaster apart to put in a fresh set of Texas Specials and decided to try shielding the pickups from all that stray EMI and other RF noise floating around my house (since my conservatory also houses computers I can tell you that a CRT or even a TFT monitor can be made very loud with a single coil pickup and a few rectifiers). I also fixed up a inexplicable ground loop thing that goes on inside Stratocasters, but that’s another story. Anyhow, the results are in:

• ++ on the Texas Specials. Those babies are hot!
• ++ on shielding the tub. I now do not have to hold a certain compass heading to kill the hum. Yay!

I used 3M Copper shielding tape but I’ve heard of guys using conductive paint or even tin foil (Those guys must be goood). Anyway, there ya go, the lowdrag.org seal of approval.