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Bottlehead Kits => Crack => Topic started by: jlucas on December 25, 2017, 01:58:22 AM

Title: Tracking down a background hum
Post by: jlucas on December 25, 2017, 01:58:22 AM

Crack with Speedball that I built several years ago but only get to listen to irregularly.  It occasionally has a slight background hum on the left channel.  It's independent of volume knob, independent of the RCAs being connected and most strangely 95% goes away if the base plate is slightly tipped like so:
https://s19.postimg.org/cvdl00ak3/IMG_20171225_074700999.jpg (https://s19.postimg.org/cvdl00ak3/IMG_20171225_074700999.jpg)
Any ideas as to why the tipping helps or where to start investigating?

Title: Re: Tracking down a background hum
Post by: kgoss on December 25, 2017, 02:48:09 AM

You probably have an unsoldered connection. Tilting the amp is making a physical connection. Either do the chopstick test or just reflow all connections. Pay special attention to joints with multiple wires.