Very notable buzz on overdrive pedal

[pinkjimiphoton]

i stand corrected, thanks, paul.

i don't know any of this EE stuff still cuz i'm a dullard of a dolt, but i figured at the output of the jelly bean there may be enough signal to make the cap mess up.

i know in a tube circuit, a reversed cap will heat up and EXPLODE. don't ask me how i learned this one, but just to be sure, i've repeated it a couple time over the years. not only does it let the magick smoke out, but it gives ya a few yards of thin foil strips to play with and a bunch of nasty stinky toxic little fibers all over everything

[iainpunk]

i love the smell of the magic smoke, i recently put a weird preamp IC 180 degrees wrong in a socket and the Vcc and Vee were switcharoo'd. IC magic smoke smells the best. i also hate it when the magic vacuum leaks out of a tube, happened to me with an old Phillips PCC83 a few days ago (fortunately, the heater was dead already, so no loss but a display piece)

cheers

[pinkjimiphoton]

 had someone bring me an old fender 100 watter bassman. needed new tubes.
so replaced 'em, ended up with a quad of matched old blackplates; still pretty good shape.
they were on my bench. i dropped something. barely touched the top of one.

CHINK.

little tiny freeking hole. one dead tube. arrrrrrrgh....

[GibsonGM]

little tiny freeking hole. one dead tube. arrrrrrrgh....

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!   


I recall with my first tube amp, I couldn't get the power tubes out (wanted to put in some BETTER, HOTTER tubes eer-umm)..so I twisted one. The key is still locked in that amp's socket - can't get to it to remove it, HRDxe with the PCB legs obstructing the socket. And the 6L6 got ruined.  Meh.

[mattis03]

I put aluminum foil inside the 3d printed case and now it sounds awesome, there is almost no buzz anymore. Thanks for the help.

[amptramp]

It's always nice to hear about a problem being solved.  The gain of 501 maximum was a guarantee that there would be a noise problem to be solved and shielding is one of the things you have to do if you want that level of gain.