Noisy pups

that's normal, worse on some amps than on others... its a ground thing, you're part of the grounding of the whole circuit. Passive basses do it too but it doesn't tend to be very loud because of the amp voicing unless you're a bass fuzz guy ;-) Youc an try a different model guitar amp. Perhaps you're being a bit of a gainiac? The more dirt you play with the louder it will seem with abss or guitar. its being raised in elvel while your paks are being clipped off by distortion so its like lwoering the guitar signal and raising the ground buzz signal. N one can hear it in a band setting. Mics barely pick it up. The audience can't ehar it. Its pretty faint. if you are so gained out that its coming up on microphones consider less distortion. Less isn't actually more, but everything in the recording chain is adding a little harmonic distortion down the pike (even the mic diaphragm) so you might want to dial it back a hair so the buzz isn't coming up in your microphones. You will fidn your dirty sound probably souds more powerful in the mix too...

https://youtu.be/NrYNm-YnlTc?t=56s

oh, the otehr solution, the one I use? is I enver take my left hand off the strings.... no-brainer, right? it also prevents rando feedback and squawking when you have a rest, so you're not getting a weird Em feedback over a song that's in like F major! If you wanna elt go of the strings, try activating a pedal tuner to mute it... or turn the damned guitar volume control down? always works too... and stop picking your hand up between chords, you don't want to make string squeaks but you also don't want to release compeltely, tis a waste of energy.

Good solutions.

Sensible solutions.

Other (less plausible) solutions:

• The sound you hear is the two extra strings gosipping over why you switched from bass.
• What you are hearing is the sound of ROCK.... waiting to happen.
• Not enough hand lube. Buy more at guitar shop.
• Guitars are needy. While a bass is more than happy with a single finger, guitars prefer the whole fist to be neck deep at all times.
• Do not let go of the guitar. The only reason ever witnessed to let go of guitar, is if you are only a singer, but wear a guitar to increase your stage presence...because you have the personality of a sock... and you somehow think hanging onto it for a bit then SLIDING it around to behind you so you can grab the mic with two hands, will make you seem cooler.... NOPE this faces your noisy guitar (Which you only bought to look cool) directly at an amp (which you also HAD to buy because just buying the guitar seemed a bit pointless, plus you then had to buy cables and picks and a tuner and some other things the guy in the guitar shop told you you absolutely HAD to have if you are a singer that wants a guitar to sling behind you because you are jealous of socks upstaging you... he said some other stuff, but you couldn't make them out because he had his hand over his mouth and was giggling... you presume because he was SO excited that a singer had chosen to go to him when they finally transitioned to guitar)... umm.... lost it a bit there... um.. oh yeah... guitar at amp unprotected.

So, seriously now, in the end, there are two options.

• Learn to find a way to keep skin in contact with strings to continue grounding the instrument.
• Learn to live with it.

(Please work on option A).