Potting either by a special wax or epoxy solutions are commonly used in guitar and bass pickups to help reduce unwanted microphonic feedback and reduce tampering of the electrical components within the pickup assembly. I like to wax pot pickups with a process I developed called “DunSqueal”. It is a system that quickly removes all the bubbles and fills the voids within the pickup at a quick rate to reduce the pickup from being exposed to too high of a temperature that can cause many problems.

I’ve had questions like, “If they can fly a man to the moon, why can’t they make a pickup that doesn’t feedback?” Well, the player doesn’t take into consideration all the other contributions that also enhance feedback within the pickup and parts of the instrument. Show me a microphone that you can place in front of and amplified speaker that doesn’t feedback! Many players are using overdrives, pre-amps and play close to the speakers at 200 watts per channel, running stereo with monitors 2 feed in front of them…and your pickups squeal…??? Well you need to look at the situation and work on the problem one at a time. There’s also the consideration that a guitar pickup costs quite a lot less than a space shuttle. Perhaps if we spent the same amount of money on research as NASA we’d be a bit closer.