Crackling and popping…where did I go wrong?

[roccobladr]

I've been trying to fix my 2001 Ibanez BTB510 active preamp and admittedly, I'm a bit of a noob. I've only ever wired passive electronics before.

See this thread for story time on how I initially messed it up.

I needed to replace my mid range stacked pentiometer. Soldered it all up to look exactly like it did before, but now when I try to play through my amp, I'm lucky if I get some faint sound for a moment before some crackling and loud popping occurs, especially if I try to mess with the knobs.

What could be the culprit?

 

[LoveThatBass]

I've been trying to fix my 2001 Ibanez BTB510 active preamp and admittedly, I'm a bit of a noob. I've only ever wired passive electronics before.
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See this thread for story time on how I initially messed it up.

I needed to replace my mid range stacked pentiometer. Soldered it all up to look exactly like it did before, but now when I try to play through my amp, I'm lucky if I get some faint sound for a moment before some crackling and loud popping occurs, especially if I try to mess with the knobs.

What could be the culprit?

 

[roccobladr]

Link to story time thread: Help with Ibanez BTB electronics

 

[dwizum]

Really hard to troubleshoot these things remotely. It's often a very simple problem but simple problems can be hard to find.

Check for shorts - wires, pcbs, or other parts touching things they shouldn't touch.

Check for bad solder work - either what you did or elsewhere. If anything looks suspect, reflow the solder.

Check the output jack. Problems like this are often just a worn or dirty jack.

 

[roccobladr]

Really hard to troubleshoot these things remotely. It's often a very simple problem but simple problems can be hard to find.

Check for shorts - wires, pcbs, or other parts touching things they shouldn't touch.

Check for bad solder work - either what you did or elsewhere. If anything looks suspect, reflow the solder.

Check the output jack. Problems like this are often just a worn or dirty jack.

I appreciate the response! I was trying to take the easy way out of this, but it sounds like I might just need to buckle down and actually learn more about electronics and figure it out. It could certainly be a poor soldering job by me as it worked before I replaced the pentiometer, just didnt work well as it was all bent.

 

[James Collins]

Could also be a bad or dirty potentiometer.