small to tall !!
check out my new home built amp below. Will have to do until someone makes a cigar box that big !! Still gotta build the guts for it yet but the box is done.This is what it looked like before covering.Read more…
Not sure if this the right place to put this so here goes-:
To go with my electric ukulele project I would also like to make a matching headphone amp that would plug into the output jack a bit like the vox headphone amps . The pickup is a strip type under-saddle piezo and I would like the headphone amp to ha
Read more…Hey all. I am a first timer trying to put together an amp using a CHAMP AMP kit. The instructions for wiring the kit are NOT so good, and I have been trying to follow other websites on wiring. I wired almost everything together (no solder yet) to
Read more…any one ever combine a didly bow with an e-bow . that would be a fairly simple build . just have a deep base with a cut out for the ebow . may be make a "carriage" for the ebow , so you could slide it up and down , you could easily make a one string
Read more…Homemade electric guitars deserve homemade amps.
http://www.leroybeal.net/amps/amps.html
I have a chip audio amp that came out of a cd player, that I would like to use to make a cbg amp with.
I was wondering if any one knows any thing about it, it is a KA2206B stereo audio amp I have a tec spec sheet on it but I really don't know how to
From here ... http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/sustainer.htm
Basically, they're splitting the output (that would go to the jack) from one pickup and sending it to an op-amp which drive a piezo transducer that's been stuck to the back of the second
Read more…I have a cute little 25 watt amp that looks like it was designed in the early 70s ("all transistor!!"), nice aqua/silver speaker cloth over a 10" speaker. I want to set it up so that someone could plug an iPod in and sing along, or sing and play guit
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I think I looked through the threads and did not find a answere, so I will ask.
I built the CBG but feel I am missing out not building a small amp to go with it.
I have come across malpins kis, but I think they are in England, and i am in Ca
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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to get some cigar box guitar close to the sound of Otis Rush, for
example when played "You've been an angel" ("Lost in the blues" album,
you can hear on GrooveShark) listen to the lead guitar... Ok, that's quite a challenge :-
Hi everyone,
I am building my own pre-amps and amps with many cool effects built-ins,
but I'm still looking for a reverb effect. Does anyone have any circuit diagrams
for a reverb that I could add into my 9v portable amplifier ?
Many thanks in advance :D
You know, the one that's on the "Free Instrument Plans" page of cigar box nation? I got the components, I wired them all up, and now all I get is bzzzzzzz from the speaker. If anyone else has built or tried to build one of these with any sucess, I'd
Read more…warning , profanity ahead ! so i went to salvation army and found this little tiny barbie karoake thing . it had echo and it was half price for 98 cents . i bought it even though i have tried to mod barbie echo modules before with bad luck . got it
Read more…I was planning on starting my second cbg today, but I could not locate all the parts-so i got cold feet and worked on this contarption i call "the bad idea" : [img]http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5012/sdc18029l.jpg[/img] [img]http://img18.imagesha
Read more…Now that i have the ball rolling and have a 1 watt amplifier circuit board with a set gain of 50 (adjustable input attenuation) in the post on its way to me . Can anybody recommend a on / off toggle switch / potentiometer please
Thank you Darren...
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I want to use a lawn mower battery to run my amps. the power source that came with the amp is rated for 12 volts at 600 Ma. If I send the juice straight from the mower battery into the amp will it toast the amp ? I am looking to run 3 amps fro
Hi everyone ive just been recently introduced to the world of cbg / cba ..I play guitar and write my own songs most with a bluesy tone to them. Had a play around on my friends cbg setups and they just felt right. Id like to have a go at building a cb
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