Today marks the 34th anniversary of Living Colour's debut album, Vivid. Hailing from New York City, Living Colour consists of lead vocalist Corey Glover, Vernon Reid on guitar, drummer Will Calhoun, and on bass Muzz Skillings and later Doug Wimbish. The most popular single off of Vivid, "Cult of Personality", received extensive radio airplay in the late 80s and early 90s and can still be heard on alternative rock stations to this day. The song would eventually garner the band a Grammy award for best hard-rock song. Sadly, Vivid was the band's only mainstream success. An all-black rock/metal band singing about gentrification, the status obsessed, alienation and mass shootings, and sexual identity among other politically charged topics wasn't commercially viable during an era of mass consumption and little self-reflection. Vivid's limited commercial success did pave the way for other politically charged acts such as Rage Against the Machine to sign major label record deals in the following decades. Living Colour would go on to record five more studio albums, including the criminally underappreciated Stain, and is still touring today.
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This something I've been meaning to ask for a while, what are the most effective ways to mitigate noise picked up by guitar pickups? I already have humbuckers and a noise gate, I live in an old shitty house with aging wiring that's next to an even shittier house owned by a landlord (so the bare minimum for maintenance). How good is shielding and is there any affordable material I could put on the walls to dampen it a bit?
I've read on this a bit over the years but I see conflicting anecdotes. I've been meaning to get my guitars shielded regardless but I've been putting it off because of covid :sankara-bass:
shielding the body cavity and the back of the pickguard can defo be helpful, but generally trying to shield a larger space like a room will not be worth it. you'd need so much copper to do it properly that it would cost a fortune, and it would be total overkill lol.
If you're still getting a bunch of jank after shielding, some other mitigating actions you could take would be re-assess your signal chain to adjust your gain staging, so that you're not boosting noise unnecessarily at any one junction in your chain.