hummm!!!!

[vroomery]

Good job on getting the Fulldrive Mosfet. :beer:

Now before your expectations are let down, be sure to give that pedal a couple of months of playing with it. It really is a fantastic pedal. Initially some users are underwhelmed by the pedal but if you just give it a chance you'll find that magic that it has. It can be a subtle pedal but once you have it for a while you'll be hooked. A very smart investment. :AOK:

Yeah I think this is gonna be my last purchase for at least a short bit so I can get used to it all and find out what I do and don't like about everything.

 

[duhvoodooman]

Good job on getting the Fulldrive Mosfet.....Initially some users are underwhelmed by the pedal but if you just give it a chance you'll find that magic that it has. It can be a subtle pedal but once you have it for a while you'll be hooked....

Spuds is right on the mark here. I have a pair of MOSFET clippers in my ZYS, and it gives a really nice smooth, bluesy tone. Certainly not an "in your face" overdriven tone, but with an impressive richness and warmth to it that you just don't get from the silicon diode clippers in most OD pedals. If you're used to playing through more aggressive overdrive/distortion pedals, the MOSFETs may seem very tame by comparison. But give them a chance--they'll grow on you. The tone is the closest to that of a tube amp pushed to the point of saturation that I've heard from a pedal.

 

[chordshredder]

Check out this dissertion on tele shielding.

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/shielding/tele.php

Make sure the added shielding is attached to ground by checking the resistance, should not be more than few tenths of ohm. If the added shield on the pickguard is floating it can act as an antenna for noise, opposite your intended desire. FTW I have a squire tele, not shielded doesnt hum, but most of my strats had to have shielding added.

 

[chordshredder]

Here is the Eny Bear Link that is the other most popular shielding linkie:

http://www.stocklogic.com/nohum/index2.html

This one relies on contact pressure, copper is subject to surface oxidizing so I cant recommend that but it would be ok if he had connected the shielding to ground with wires.