I'm building a Hoffman non-Tremolo Princeton Reverb for a friend to use as a harp amp. Today I finished wiring it, and checked all the voltages - they were all spot on. Good, no 220k instead of 220R resistors or whatever. Everything looked fine.
Removed the dummy load, plugged in the speaker. Turned it on. Nothing. Shit. Signal is being sent to ground somewhere. There wasn't even any hum or hiss. None.
Plugged in a guitar (Tele, of course) anyway, just to be sure.
Perfect. Everything works the way it is supposed to. Nice loud Fender sound. Reverb, with dwell control, can be precisely regulated from just a whisper to surf city.
NO hum, no hiss. I don't know how this happened. It's just ... perfect.
I guess everyone gets lucky once in a while. Maybe I should keep this.
steven