Good day brilliant wonderful people!
I have come across a problem that I don't have any idea where to even start looking.
I recently built and amp... Input > Gain > Vol > Gain > Bax Tonestack > PI > PA
Upon completion of the amp I was overjoyed that my time and energy to ensure that it did not hum had finally come to fruition. THEN! I turned up the volume and noticed what I thought was static. I turned it up more and the static increased. Good to know, what ever it is, is coming from the first gain stage. I listened really really carefully for voices in the static but could hear none. I figured maybe I was tuning into a radio station... that wasn't a station.
Here is a photo of the guts.
Any ideas and help would be very much appreciated.
As a side note, I noticed that my old Fender Twin is significantly louder than this one. I was wondering if putting another gain stage after the Tonestack would cure this problem. I'. not really sure if there is enough juice getting through to push the output as hard as I would like.