My Taco is broken...

Bob Zaod

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Just pulled my Friedman Pink Taco out of storage and it's messed up big time. Opened it up and nothing looks cooked so I cleaned all the pots and jacks really well but no improvement. I am going to make a video of what it's doing but to describe it, the hum/buzz is almost as loud as the guitar signal and it does not change with volume or gain. Plugged direct in to return and same issue. swapped in a brand new set of power tubes and known good 12ax7's and no improvement. It also makes the guitar sound out of tune if that makes sense. I looked in the facebook Friedman groups and no help there. In all honesty if I remember right I think the hum/buzz started before I stuck it in the shed a few years ago.


I typically like to try and take care of issues myself but this one seems to be beyond what I can do. Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? I was going to sell it and put the funds towards a Splawn Quick Rod.
 
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You guys are slow to the punch this morning.
 
I agree to reach out to Dave. Could be something in the OT, since you replaced with all known good tubes, particularly P1 was my first guess.
 
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