How I Killed The Hum from my MIJ Fender Stratocaster

The infamous 60 Hz cycle hum is an intrinsic problem of single coil electric guitars. Among the many alternatives to tame unwanted noise, one stands out as the geekiest and more effective. This is how I made it without breaking the bank.

Riccardo Di Sipio
Geek Culture
Published in
11 min readOct 21, 2022

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Recently, I have purchased a previously-owned Fender Stratocaster Made in Japan. It’s an ok guitar for both playing and tinkering with it. All along…

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Riccardo Di Sipio
Geek Culture

Senior Machine Learning developer at Dayforce. NLP, graph neural networks. Formerly physicist at U Toronto, Bologna, CERN LHC/ATLAS.