SOLVED Ceasar started making a noise in bypass..

[Ctrl4Smilerz]

I recently rewired more board, and have discovered my, previously working fine, Caesar chorus has started making a faint high pitch clicking, only when in bypass. I took it out of the housing a tried reseating ICS, and reflowing anything that looked suspicious, but that hasn't helped. What are the most likely components that would cause a high pitch clicking?

 

[owlexifry]

This makes a lot of sense. If I sand the paint off a spot on the inside, could I solder a wire to the enclosure?

even easier, just loosen/remove the input jack enough so that you can slip/sneak in a piece of wire that can make contact with the bare metal surface of the drilled hole.
once secured in, it shouldn’t move.

 

[jimilee]

I would move the input and output wires away from the PCB, since you have it out. See if it’s picking up noise that way. I seriously doubt it’s a grounding issue.

 

[swyse]

I would move the input and output wires away from the PCB, since you have it out. See if it’s picking up noise that way. I seriously doubt it’s a grounding issue.

Should be easy to test this by plugging it in and moving them away, especially away from the top side of the board/pots where the LFO is.

 

[Ctrl4Smilerz]

Should be easy to test this by plugging it in and moving them away, especially away from the top side of the board/pots where the LFO is.

I added the ground wire, and that definitely made the pedal more quiet but it did not get rid of the clicking.

Should be easy to test this by plugging it in and moving them away, especially away from the top side of the board/pots where the LFO is.

I tried moving wires around while plugged in to see if that did the trick and I accidentally pulled the wire off the pad, so I think I'm going to redo them with shielded wire.

 

[Ctrl4Smilerz]

Shielded wow did the trick!