I need some Help from you amp gurus

[d1dsj]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

Glad you got to the bottom of! I forgot, but recently had exactly that problem when I tried using a wall wart and daisy chain... Once I got my Volto for my small board it went completely. I would check your supply before you take your pedal apart.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

I had a chorus pedal do that

turned out it was a speaker cable instead of an instrument cable that was the culprit

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

Glad you got to the bottom of! I forgot, but recently had exactly that problem when I tried using a wall wart and daisy chain... Once I got my Volto for my small board it went completely. I would check your supply before you take your pedal apart.

Good point. I'll check it out

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

Glad you got to the bottom of! I forgot, but recently had exactly that problem when I tried using a wall wart and daisy chain... Once I got my Volto for my small board it went completely. I would check your supply before you take your pedal apart.

Thank you so much for that info. I never in my life would have suspected the power supply (daisy chain).

I disconnected the 9v connection from the daisy chain (it was last in a line of 5 or 6 plugs) and plugged in a wire directly from the power block. Whammo!!! Absolutely quiet. No more squeal at all!

Thanks again. Saved me a lot of work.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

It was probably starving
The digital effects need more juice than say a distortion

*(Sent from my durned phone!)*

 

[d1dsj]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

No worries .... Glad I could finally be of help of to one of you guys here! It's only took 6000+ posts..... Lol.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

No worries .... Glad I could finally be of help of to one of you guys here! It's only took 6000+ posts..... Lol.

I think you've had some helpful posts in the last 8 years.

 

[Scott_F]

Re: I need some Help from you amp gurus

Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but tighten up all your ¼" input and speaker jacks. I've seen this cause your stated problem.

Update...

I took it apart and resoldered every tube socket point. Put the amp back together and plugged it in. There is sound now, but there is still some squeal. Not near as bad as it was, but still squeals. enough to be annoying and distracting.

It seams weird that redoing all the tube socket joint would help it but not totally cure it. You'd think that if it helped, that would mean that that was the problem. But, if that was the problem, why didn't it totally fix it?

I'm not so sure I want to monkey with the caps, but I certainly don't want to pay a shop a couple hundred dollars to do something I can easily fix myself.

Any suggestions?