This 1999 Fender Princeton Chorus SS amp I have has BAD static noises occasionally. It only affects the right speaker, but boy does it jump when the static is happening! I currently have it open and powered up and when I poke at the components around the spade lugs on the board where the right speaker is attached, I can usually provoke it into making the noise. I have swapped the left and right speaker connections and it doesn't follow the speaker. I thought for sure that it was a bad 150 ohm sandstone resistor (R116) which is right next to the spade lugs for the speaker, but replacing it only helped marginally. I have touched a hot soldering iron to all of the points on the board around the speaker connection but this didn't fix the problem. I suppose that it could be any or all of the components around that part of the board, including the 9 pin TDA1514A chip. Do these amps have a history of bad components/soldering or both? Has anybody any experience with this amp and/or have suggested fixes?
Schematic link: http://support.fender.com/schematics..._DSP_Sc9A4.pdf
Schematic link: http://support.fender.com/schematics..._DSP_Sc9A4.pdf
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