Dropping String Problems

[alvarezh]

Hi Passfan, check out this eyelet on the mid cap, is it soldered?

Glad you're sorting out your problems.

All the best.

[amplifiednation]

Horacio how do you see this stuff? I bet you have a 52" monitor. Can you see into the future too?

[passfan]

Yes good eye. That is part of a little housekeeping to be tended to before I cabinet her up. That lead on that cap is the jumper that goes under the board to the cap/resistor junction to the left where it is soldered. I just leave them long if they reach instead of using separate jumpers. I'm sure it will make noise if I leave it rattling around in the hole.

[Structo]

Passfan,
I used to do stuff like that as well, use the lead to jump to the next component.
The problem with that method is if you ever have to change that cap or want to try a different value, it is much harder to remove and you may have to pull the board up to fix it for the new component.
However, in that case you could simply cut the lead of the cap off a little past the eyelet and then you would have a separate jumper and cap.

[alvarezh]

@ Taylor
19" monitor, next size will be a Samsung 42" TV/Monitor. Passfan provided good pictures, credit him!

On future telling (seeing), even if I could I would not practice it. Imagine living knowing when you're going to die!

@Passfan
Got you. But I would take Tom's suggestion very seriously. Why? Dumbles are very tricky and they not always sound the way you like them with every guitar you plug into them. Hence, don't discount on future tweaks!

All the best.

[amplifiednation]

passfan the build looks great, nice and tidy.

[wjdunham]

passfan the build looks great, nice and tidy.

It is indeed a nice looking build. One thing you might do is route your two cathode wires and the plate wire for the clean channel stage like you on the overdrive stage. Even on the overdrive, you might try to move the second yellow cathode wire to run closer to the plate and first cathode for a bit. (Take a look almost any gut shot or layout to see what I mean here). Keeping them close together for an inch or so gives you a little more of that sing and sustain. Otherwise it looks like you've got a nice cleanly wired amp.
Bill

[passfan]

Cool beans, I'll take all that I can get. Thanks to all for the help and the compliments. There are plenty here who can do better , and have. I'm just lucky this place exists for me to pick up tips from quality builders.

[passfan]

And..., here comes the aggravation. Moving some cathode wires around and when I powered back up V1 starts crackling, swapped it out, and now I have a slight tremolo. Moved my wires back and swapped out preamp tubes to no avail. Anyone experience this before ? Could this just be a coincidence and something funny is going on in the PI or my power tubes. I don't even want to play it anymore.

[sonicmojo]

And..., here comes the aggravation. Moving some cathode wires around and when I powered back up V1 starts crackling, swapped it out, and now I have a slight tremolo. Moved my wires back and swapped out preamp tubes to no avail. Anyone experience this before ? Could this just be a coincidence and something funny is going on in the PI or my power tubes. I don't even want to play it anymore.

I'm sure this is probably not it but I was experiencing a similar problem once and then realized my ceiling fan got turned on. Doh! It's amazing how that can affect sound in a small room with a 100W amp.

[passfan]

I thought about that while going to sleep. The fan was on last night for the first time since startup. I will have to wait till this afternoon to check on that and it has to be it , thanks.

[passfan]

And the fan was the culprit. Now it's off to play and tune
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