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Re: Fender hum balance...help me

8/18/1999 1:45 AM
M/J	Re: Fender hum balance...help me Bruce, I just finished a 1978 Bassman 10 that had the hum balance and bias control in the back. Evidently there was a short at one time cause the hum pot looked like it had been cooked a little. I installed 100 ohm resistors to the filament leads and the amp sounds great. It did hum till I did that. Also I changed the bias circuit to an adjustable circuit instead of a balanced one. Those two things made that amp sound really good. M/J

8/18/1999 1:45 AM

M/J

Re: Fender hum balance...help me

Bruce,

I just finished a 1978 Bassman 10 that had the hum balance and bias control in the back. Evidently there was a short at one time cause the hum pot looked like it had been cooked a little. I installed 100 ohm resistors to the filament leads and the amp sounds great. It did hum till I did that. Also I changed the bias circuit to an adjustable circuit instead of a balanced one. Those two things made that amp sound really good.

M/J