Review: Fender's new Silent Strats are an absolute no-brainer
It's only taken 72 years, but Fender has finally, comprehensively solved the biggest problem with its most iconic electric guitar: the amount of unwanted noise it makes.
Well, specifically the noise that's unwanted by the guitar player. There's no such solution here for noise unwanted by the player's partner, family or neighbors. But they're not the customer here, and ear plug technology is fairly mature at this point.
60-cycle hum: The problem
For the uninitiated, here's the problem: electric guitar pickups are designed to sense changes in the magnetic field caused by the vibrating movements of metal strings, and send them to an amplifier, which magnifies these vibrations into wonderfully exuberant speaker cone movements that can be enjoyed by entire grateful neighborhoods at once. But these subtle magnetic flux changes are not the only ones the pickups... Pick up.
The main bugbear is mains power. Electricity and magnetism being two...
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