I bought a Joyo JA02-II 5 W battery guitar amplifier. My intent is to use it with crystal radios and to make probes to use it as a signal tracer. It works fine, and using it's "overdrive" function gives me a lot of gain. I actually sounds pretty good, too.
However I discovered that the amplifier has a free-running oscillation from the CS81385 IC amplifiers in the mf broadcast band. If I put my finger on the IC it moves the frequency, may even stop it, but take my finder away and it drifts back to approximately the same frequency. I tried wrapping aluminum foil around the amplifiercase, which substantially reduced the radiation.
I'm wondering if someone can offer suggestions to stopping the oscillation without a a lot of work on the teensy-weensy PC board with macroscopic surface-mount components. I figure worst case I could shield the inside of the plastic case with copper foil tape or carbon paint, but would really like to be able to actually kill the oscillation.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.