Originally Posted by: Homebrew1709okay, i've done the soldering and the new pickup is installed but there's a problem: The humbucker is now very noisey. I wired red to hot and black grounded to the back of the pot as the instructions stated. Any ideas?

What kind of humbucking pickup, and how many conductors in the wiring, not including the shielding? Is this the usual Gibson-style setup, with a toggle switch to select bridge or neck or both pickups?

In the old days (it's been at least a couple of decades since I've done any installation work with pickups), you soldered the braided shield of the pickup lead to the case of the volume control pot, and the center conductor to the non-grounded side of the pot's resistance element.

C.K.