HI All
As a strat player noise is a real pain for me and worse around digital stuff I record with.
I find for live work just use a noise gate pedal set to about 25db, or set to just above any noise.
This should kill any noise in the system and open when you play.
Cheers
Bob
Blueslsd
Tom Morello gets real creative with his guirar, and uses this technique alot. He also unplugs his guitar to make the pedals and amps make noise (oscillate), and controls the noise with his wah pedal and by touching the tip of the plug to the guitar bridge (which is grounded). Good demonstration of how just cutting the signal lead can cause lots of noise, while a short will be more or less silent :)
-Sakari-