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Line noise

A project log for Ultimate preamp

The 1st preamp. Noisy, pointless, but cool.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 01/27/2018 at 23:120 Comments

60Hz line noise was another problem in the weeds of the noise floor.

Putting a ground line around the 6.8k resistors gave a questionable improvement. The biggest improvement came from

moving the power & ground lines away from the pots & the twisted pairs.  This kind of noise reduction isn't going to be consistent, as it's transported.  Digital pots & flood filled grounds are necessary .

Transient pops are still a problem in the aux channel.  Disabling phantom power & running the preamp on batteries didn't fix it.  Still debating upgrading the preamp to 100x.

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