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god that is just the worst. You just know that some fuckwit in a boardroom was grinning ear to ear and thinking "man I'm a genius for coming up with this" as he pitched the name to everyone. Whoever allowed that artwork and name to get past the first draft should be kneecapped. Congrats on...

UPDATE: Solved it. Thanks for the tips dudes. The wires under the board on the tube side all seemed ok, until I got to one and went to wiggle it and SNAP (that'll teach me to use solid core wire) it was super hanging on by a thread and I reckon every little bump or bass vibration was jolting it loos...

update:

cleaned all tube sockets, pots & jacks and still occuring.
Discovered that merely tapping the turret board material causes the noise/issue as well, so I suspect something underneath the board is either occasionally shorting out, or one of the underboard wires has a dry solder joint

It really does sound like a bad connection somewhere. If it was a faulty mains cap, you'd likely have other symptoms - hum, sucking down the B+ voltage, weak output. Likewise, I doubt it's overloading - this is a DR103 after all and the design should handle anything you throw at it. Probably not a ...

yep will crack it open and check the sockets and tubes again for microphonics. May a bit of contact cleaner in all the sockets as well. Still seems super weird that tapping certain capacitors will trigger it though. Can a capacitor be microphonic? Caps can go bad, possible they are shorting out int...

yep will crack it open and check the sockets and tubes again for microphonics. May a bit of contact cleaner in all the sockets as well.
Still seems super weird that tapping certain capacitors will trigger it though. Can a capacitor be microphonic?

Hey guys. So i've recently started playing bass in a band, and am using the Hiwatt DR103 clone I built. It had a few issues way back when I first built it that had been intermittent. When I first fired it up the bias circuit was not working properly and one of the tubes nearly started to red plate. ...

Molly wrote:

hamo wrote:I wish I understood what I was looking at when I look at this thread.

Most usually about $2400 worth of parts soldered together to make a $3,000 amp.

fixed

noice

yep, fav guitar to play

most of my guitars have upgraded pickups in them, from Bareknuckles, to Fender Custom shop tele pickups to Dimarzio 36th Anniversary Masters. By the far the absolute best pickup upgrade, and most notable improvement in tone, was upgrading my White Falcon to have TV Jones Classic + Classic + pickups....

Rory strat,

would love a Jimmy Page Number 1 or 2 one day

There's a couple I saw on ebay for around $3-400USD but they were in pretty rough nick and shipping made it around $550~
That one that's $690US free shipping looks sick and is about the right price for over here (no idea what MiJ stuff is worth in NZ tbh)

jeremyb wrote:Shouldn't have looked on ebay... free international shipping from these guys... http://stores.ebay.com/tricraftguitars/ ... op=2&rt=nc

yeah the ST-62 will be killer. I have the Tele '62 RI from the same range and it's mad.