Super Stevie Radio

[PapaBear]

I buddy I gave a Super Stevie overdrive to, PM'd me and said when he engages the pedal with his headphones while recording, he can faintly hear a radio station playing, not loud enough for the recording to pick up, it's a pretty simple circuit and it's not the high gain version. What might be the cause, it didn't do it initially.

 

[jesuscrisp]

Usually happens if the enclosure is not grounded properly but it may also have to do with other equipment of your buddy.

 

[JamieJ]

Have you tried a small value cap (100pf) in parallel with the input pull down resistor?

 

[PapaBear]

Have you tried a small value cap (100pf) in parallel with the input pull down resistor?

I don't have the pedal but, I have ask him to try that.

 

[PapaBear]

Usually happens if the enclosure is not grounded properly but it may also have to do with other equipment of your buddy.

Yes, I'm usually pretty good at cleaning all the jack, footswitch and potholes of paint, but I may have clear coated it after doing that. But since it only recently started, I'm thinking something else in his chain.

 

[PapaBear]

Heard back from him and turns out not to be the pedal, he put it straight into his amp with known to be good cables and no Radio station.