Noisy pot?

Sometimes a noisy pot can be cured just by rotating it back and forth quickly ten times or so. Often the pots that become noisy do so because they are the least used ... I suspect that's your problem. Every week or so on my preamp I turn the selector switch and the pots back and forth a couple of times ... on the advise of a technician at a well known manufacturer. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but so far I have had no problems with noise or other failures.

So you might not even need to use cleaner, but of my suggestion doesn't work then the other Sean (above) is right on the money.

A friend of mine ran into a similar problem years ago and ended up ordering some spray from reichelt.de which evidently cleaned up the contacts. It worked so well he now swears by cheapo pots. Unfortunately, I can't remember offhand what the product was, but surely a local supplier will have something similar? In any case, it sounds like a reasonable route to first try.

Seandtaylor99, I tried your suggestion about spinning the pot and it seems to have worked. If the problem resurfaces I'll try what Sean has suggested and have printed out his instructions. Thank you all for your help!

Good result ... no money spent ! :-)

Sift out the seeds, dude.