How-To: Clean your amp controls

Music Technology

Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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September 13th, 2010

Instructables user Teslaphonics writes:

Is that crackling and popping when you turn the controls on your amp driving you crazy? Here’s how to clean them and get back to the music.

There are spray “contact cleaners” available for this purpose, but in most cases just mixes the dirt and grime already inside with more dirt and assembly grease and may make the control operate worse than it is already.

How to clean amplifier controls