Hello all,
I have a Silvertone 1481 that I have been working on. This is my first tube amp project. I picked it up at a garage sale super cheap with a blown speaker, a rotted output transformer, and no tubes. I put new tubes in it, a bigger Hammond 125 output transformer, new speaker, and a three prong cord. It fired right up but the pots were super scratchy and popped when using them. So I replaced them with high quality pots. Now the amp sounds great but when I move the volume, tone, or the volume on my guitar I get a faint scratchy noise, it doesn't pop anymore, and the scratchy sound isn't near as loud as it used to be but I have no idea what it could be.
Could this be the filter caps? The amp seems to have plenty of volume and is actually really really quiet. Very little hum.
I have a Silvertone 1481 that I have been working on. This is my first tube amp project. I picked it up at a garage sale super cheap with a blown speaker, a rotted output transformer, and no tubes. I put new tubes in it, a bigger Hammond 125 output transformer, new speaker, and a three prong cord. It fired right up but the pots were super scratchy and popped when using them. So I replaced them with high quality pots. Now the amp sounds great but when I move the volume, tone, or the volume on my guitar I get a faint scratchy noise, it doesn't pop anymore, and the scratchy sound isn't near as loud as it used to be but I have no idea what it could be.
Could this be the filter caps? The amp seems to have plenty of volume and is actually really really quiet. Very little hum.
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