The cinematography isn't great as I'm watching my hands more than the LCD. In this particular situation I'm getting a lot of interference and noise because in creating a positive feedback loop for a tremolo circuit I over-shot the frequency needed (very low, around 7Hz ) and ended up amplifying only the noise produced by the tube. That noise is what you use to send the tube into oscillation but is not amplified for several reasons. One being that you aren't running the main signal through the oscillator tube, you are using the current fluctuations of the oscillator's grid and cathode to pull the bias of an audio tube back and forth between two points of efficiency. The signal within the oscillator tube is being amplified as it has to be to send the tube into fluctuations and a small portion can actually be accessed through the same cathode that is tied to the audio circuit. However, once the tube is oscillating the dominant frequency is to low for the amplifier to reproduce. So long as you have a chassis that consists of a ground plane completely surrounding the internal circuitry, one of the few ways an actual radio (high frequency) signal can get into the circuitry is through the cable use to connect the amp to whatever instrument that is used to supply a signal. Unwanted frequencies are shelved off at a determined point by running the audio signal through a resistor just before it enters the first gain stage. This resistor forms a low pass filter in conjunction with ...
Tags: Tube amp, interference, miller capacitance, grid stopper, guitar