Help tracking down hum in onboard dlator

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soje
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Help tracking down hum in onboard dlator

Post by soje »

I'm in the process of tweaking a Bluesmaster build, and I'm trying to get rid of some humming (no it's not me :) )

The amp has a built in dumbleator. When I ground the the grid of the recovery stage, the hum disapears. When I ground the other end of the 220k resistor going to that grid, the hum is still there (the junction of the network from the plate, the 220k||500p grid network, and the 270k resistor going to groundt).

I've tried to move the ground of the recovery stage around, but nothing changes :-/

Any ideas?
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Structo
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Re: Help tracking down hum in onboard dlator

Post by Structo »

If you bypass the D'lator is the hum still there?

You may have a ground loop.

I was looking through my layouts and schematics.
I thought for sure I had some stuff on a built in D'lator.
This is all I can find at the moment.
See if this helps at all.
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Tom

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