Not just ordinary, run a distortion pedal or a single overdrive pedal.īut ganging up multiples of them can be hard on these chips.Īnyway, rather than soldering a replacement in, he soldered in an 8 pin female socket, so if it ever happens again, you just pull the chip, and push in a new one.
He says he's seen this before when the amp is driven too hard with pedals and the like, boosting the amp. Turns out its an op-amp chip had short circuited. In the last section he was working through, he was finding weird voltage fluctuations, big ones.
So, he checked every cap and resistor on the board, all within factory spec.
