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Bottlehead Kits => Crack => Topic started by: C LaFong on August 24, 2020, 04:25:06 PM

Title: Sudden distortion
Post by: C LaFong on August 24, 2020, 04:25:06 PM

Crack went from sounding great to crap overnight.
The distortion is most noticeable with vocals, they sound almost like gargling if that makes sense.
Tubes or something else?

Title: Re: Sudden distortion
Post by: Paul Birkeland on August 24, 2020, 04:31:53 PM

If it's both channels, it's unlikely to be a tube.   I would do a set of DC voltage checks just to be sure.

What you describe is how I would describe a bad solder joint.  If it's on both channels, that's how I would describe a bad solder joint on the ground buss.

Title: Re: Sudden distortion
Post by: C LaFong on August 24, 2020, 04:52:26 PM

It is both channels. I will check the solder joints. Thanks.