Mad Scientist Jr wrote:
Did you use shielded wire to connect the controls and jacks?
Thanks for your reply...
No, just normal stranded wire. Is that where the most interference
would be leaking in?
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inside of the project box with this?
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It would probably be little help. And if you coat the box
with anything conductive, it won't help much unless you can
make a good electrical connection between the coating and
pin 4 of the chip. If you really want to try this, thin
brass shim stock cut and folded to fit the box, is probably
the best you can get, short of a copper or aluminum box. It
is also easily solderable to make the ground connection.
If this amp powered by a battery?
In this configuration, pin 2 is the most sensitive node, and
anything connected to it should be surrounded with shielding.
Pins 1 and 8 are also somewhat sensitive so if the gain pot
has a metal case, that case should also have a ground wire
run to pin 4 to shield the resistive element.
Pin 7 is less sensitive, and since this circuit connects
nothing to it, it is probably not involved in the noise.