Tube Amp Archive

"Bacon frying" sounds can be because of bad tubes, dirty tube pins, loose tube sockets, cracked or cold solder joints, bad plate resistors, and sun spots. To find the problem we use tools like chopsticks, process of elimination, and pure luck. Thanks man, somebody gave me the chopsticks method. GC ...

Milkmansound wrote:It's brand new? Exchange it - you don't want that one

Couldn't get it to make the noise when I took it back, I bought it two years ago.

New guy here, and I apologize if this topic has been covered. The day I brought it home it was making these crackles and pops. Sometimes a pop initiates the crackling. It does it regardless of volume, and even if a guitar is not plugged in. The noise occurs in both channel inputs, normal and vibrato...