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The secret weapon most call the red rooster has gone all hissy on me. Any ideas what might be up with it? Thanks andrew

Send it to The Captain for a service.

It’ll cost too much

Check your wiring, it could be something loose causing a grounding problem perhaps.

Yeah I should crack it open and have a peek

Edit-has a peek, all seemed good.

What transistor does it have?
You could see if the hiss is affected by temperature. Pop it in the fridge for 5 minutes then plug in right after you take it out.

I had a hiss with my creepy recently. Contacted brad and we were both stumped. I changed the battery ..... it’s working again

Seriously though I had been disconnecting the input jack to preserve battery life and leaving the output in.
Looks like it was slowly draining the battery. Causing irregular hissing and white noise.
Had a few transistors give up too in various devices.
I guess these NOS things can test good but doesn’t mean they’ll always last or work well in a circuit?

Doc Holliday wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 2:04 pm I guess these NOS things can test good but doesn’t mean they’ll always last or work well in a circuit?

I've had a few germanium transistors that went permanently bad after some time in treble booster builds - some noise, crackling sounds, so yeah shit can happen with time.

If it's rly bad noise, then I'd also guess there's some connection broke.