Help with wiring this Tele.

[Laggspike]

So i just swapped pups on my Tele. (they sound awesome!)

Thing is, my 51 CS nocaster picups is Hissing when im playing clean (and more trebly stuff in general)

So i opened the Controll plate, and noticed i have no ground on them (not 100% sure of that even..)

is that causing the hiss?

Pic of wiring:

If it has no ground, should i just take a wire and solder it on the tone pot and then to the bridge?

 

[Mookakian]

Tele Bridge Pickups are grounded via the Brass/Steel baseplate annd screws to the bridge so most do not have a ground wire, some guys like to run one to be sure there is a solid line to ground. The neck pickup has a jumper wire that grounds via the neg coil wire, this is removed and another wire run from the baseplate to obtain the series mode on a tele...

Does the noise go away when touching the strings/bridge...?

 

[JohnnyN]

What is the red wire coming from the neck pocket doing?
Is it there to make series/out of phase or other stuff on that odd green thingy - like Mookakian mentions that lifts the ground from the cover. In that case you may have forgotten to restore ground to the cover perhaps?

 

[Laggspike]

What is the red wire coming from the neck pocket doing?
Is it there to make series/out of phase or other stuff on that odd green thingy - like Mookakian mentions that lifts the ground from the cover. In that case you may have forgotten to restore ground to the cover perhaps?

Hello both!

The sound Dosent go away when i touch the strings, but i have noticed that the problem comes from guitar rig 5, suddenly being loud when i play very clean stuff (not loud at all, its just a small amount of hiss. But it cut straight through the mix if im putting some drums and shizzle on)
so its getting annoying.

But i kinda fixed it tho, by micing up my crappy Marshall MG15CD with my Rode NT2A and let it through GT5, just with some reverb/EQ on clean sounds absolutely perfect in my oppinion

btw, that red wire comes from my old pickups (dident cut it so i cant put it back)

Since i had to make that my neck pickup has 3 wires, i kinda had to mod the neck PU for that, but worked like a charm.

I used this website to help me how to do it, since its the very first time me changing pickups and open up my Tele

How to... Change Pickups on Am Deluxe Telecaster with S1 Switch Remaining - Telecaster Guitar Forum

Btw, the S1 switch just makes so the middle possition gets muddy and way to dark, wouldent recomend it at all, if you want it muddy and dark, go with the tone knob

 

[chupe442]

Chord is bad... ?

 

[JohnnyN]

Ah so it wasn't the wiring that was doing
I have a 4 way switch and did the same on the neck pickup - lifting the ground wire and connect it to the switch, and adding a new ground wire.
Anyway good that it wasn't the pickup swap that caused your problems

Edit:
Seems like the S1 switch acts differently on different Fender models.
http://www.fender.com/news/s-1-switching/

 

[LowThudd]

With that S1 switch, the neck cover should have it's own ground. If the new pup has a jumper to the cover, that jumper needs to be cut. Otherwise there will be noise.