Topics

Hi folks,

I finally built my afterlife, and crammed it into a 1590a... that was quite a task.

It all seems to be mostly working, very subtly... except I am getting some kind of distortion when playing my bass through it.  It's a high-end staticky type of distortion, I'm not sure where to look to see what is causing it.  It is mostly evident with my bass, higher notes on the guitar don't seem to bring it out as much.

I used a VTL5C3 and replaced R7 with a 50K pot with a 33k resistor in series (I changed that to a 47k, so that when the pot is dialled down it is in stock configuration).

What could be causing the noise?  How can I trace this?  Thanks.

Here I was, holding off on getting a zygote board until after taxes... and now they're gone.  Are they going to come back?  Is this one of your handmade boards you were talking about before, or is this one of the "offline" ones you are just putting on hold?