Piercing Hawthorne Feedback

[omarwhite]

so I gutted my Tele Deluxe and put a single Zombie Dust LSD high output humbucker in the bridge. no other pickups. thing measures around 22.4. I also removed the tone pots and all I'm running is pickup>500k volume pot>output. the pickup has tons of balls tho and has great low end response. amp treble is set at 2.

problem is I'm getting tons of high feedback. I knew this set up would boost my treble output but it's piercing. my Decimator wont even filter it out. I'm loving all the additional treble otherwise, tho. outside of putting a tone pot back in or something, are there any caps or resistors or something I can ad on my volume pot to help reduce squeal? I guess a treble bleed would be the last thing I want...

any thoughts?

[omarwhite]

also, pretty sure this is microphonic feedback for the most part. my practice spot is a 10x10 room, and I cant stand any further from my amp than I currently am....

[omarwhite]

nevermind. ima wax pot the pickup and see what that solves.

[WayToHip]

Maybe put copper foil in the body cavity around the pickup? You could be suffering from lots of radio frequencies, electronic noise, and even LED light bulbs can create noise.