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Re: Kustom III PA [message #22800 is a reply to message #22767]

Fri, 24 April 2015 16:54

Autoharp
Messages: 14
Registered: April 2015
Location: Warren, MI

Junior Member

It runs on smoke and if the smoke leaks out it won't work.

Seriously...Good news / bad news

Good news is that it appears that the correction of the bias diodes has made it run MUCH cooler.

Bad news is that now it seems to not want to produce any real volume. I've got hum, I've got white noise, but no serious loudness from it like I had when I started. Put the reverb tank back in, turn the reverb volume up, tap on the tank and you get the familiar "boing". The graphic EQ, if you turn the two lowest bands down you can pretty much kill the hum.

Getting frustrated...but I WILL find the problem.

Autoharp Bill
Beautiful Downtown
Warren, Michigan
USA

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		Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Sun, 19 April 2015 00:02
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Sun, 19 April 2015 02:48
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Sun, 19 April 2015 06:55
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 09:20
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Mon, 20 April 2015 12:10
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Mon, 20 April 2015 12:41
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 09:10
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Tue, 21 April 2015 11:24
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Tue, 21 April 2015 13:05
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 14:03
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Tue, 21 April 2015 14:11
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 22:42
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Wed, 22 April 2015 09:37
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Wed, 22 April 2015 13:22
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Wed, 22 April 2015 16:11
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Wed, 22 April 2015 17:29
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Thu, 23 April 2015 15:05
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Thu, 23 April 2015 15:32
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Thu, 23 April 2015 22:27
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Fri, 24 April 2015 01:10
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Fri, 24 April 2015 06:18
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Fri, 24 April 2015 16:54
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Sat, 25 April 2015 06:54
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Sun, 14 June 2015 21:05
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Sun, 14 June 2015 23:54
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Mon, 15 June 2015 06:26
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Wed, 17 June 2015 02:16
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Wed, 17 June 2015 06:17

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