I'm looking for some suggestions for dealing with silencing cable rattle inside a mandolin after installing a soundboard transducer pickup. I installed a JJB pickup in my mandolin (essentially the same setup as a K&K twin) with a tapastring jack. Works and sounds great, except there's some slack in the internal cabling that smacks against the top when I move. And since the transducer turns the top of the mandolin into a giant microphone, it makes a lot of noise.
Anyone had any luck figuring out how to immobilize those internal wires? So far I've come up with these ideas, but hoping someone here has already had success:
1) Cutting the wires short and resoldering to the jack to take out some of the slack (there's not much to begin with, though)
2) Using a little tacky putty to secure the cables against the back if I can figure out how to get in through the F holes to do that effectively.
3) Using EQ to cut out more of the low end and standing really still when I play.
Thanks!
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