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Hey all,

At practice yesterday I noticed my semi-hollowbody making a humming noise regularly even with the volume pots all the way down. I did notice however the buzzing stops any time I touch anything metal on the guitar (knobs, strings, tuning pegs). I assume there's something wrong with the electronics in there, but I'm not quite sure if this is an issue I can solve easily.

Either way my noise gate covers up the humming, but I'd like to figure out why it's happening.

Yep, grounding issue. Not a hard fix at all. It'll be pretty evident once you open things up where the connection to ground was lost

Definitely grounding. For me, it's been the ground wire to the bridge in most cases.

Another vote for grounding issues. I have the same issue in my CIJ Jag. The wires are so brittle that they just snap sometimes with import guitars.

I'd say it's an easy fix, but everything is a pain in the ass with semi-hollows and hollow-bodies. See what you can do by poking around where you can and go from there. Odds are it's just a cold solder joint or one that snapped off.

If you can, gob the ground wire with enough solder so it can't back out of the hole and stop making contact with the bridge. It's most likely a rogue bridge ground.

I don't think it's a pot ground if it only pops/makes noises when touching a part of the body. I opened a Squier today and realized one pot was grounded to the bridge, but not grounded to the other pot and I didn't have any pops when touching it. I still went ahead and grounded everything together though.

I found the issue with my CIJ Jag. They simply forgot to put a ground line on the jack at the factory. I was digging around in the control panels on every restring looking for the issue, and it ended up being something that obvious. How I didn't catch it sooner is beyond me.