Thanks to your introducing these amp units to our group, I get to build a cabinet for one. I think Jon ordered 5 kits for our club. Thanks for the pictures here, it was a good reminder. I have only built a CBG box amp/speaker with a "Gitty" kit one before, this will be totally different. Was there a way to make it battery powered?
As a newbie I think it sounds good. No real hum/his unless the volume is dimed and then you get fairly nice/loud overdrive when you play. Good for practicing or playing with friends.
I looked at the schematic and layout, it looks like many of the small guitar practice amps that you get when buying a starter package.
I have a 4watt guitar amp that I found on the side of the road that is similar with a First Act label on it. It works, just had a small 4" speaker that sounded like a**. People will throw them away or sell on ebay/craigslist when they get a better amp. They work fine, they just need a decent speaker. I converted mine for guitar or bass/acoustic use by putting the input capacitor on a 2-way switch with a .1uf cap on the other side for bass. I use another speaker for guitar and a subwoofer out of a home surround system for bass or acoustic wired on another 2-way switch. It works great with my CBG's and is loud enough in the music room for my bass.
I have a Smokey LM386 amp and it has zero head room. I have a scratch built Fender Deluxe Reverb inspired amp built by a friend that sounds absolutely fantastic but it's a bit heavy and I'm reluctant to drag my baby out into dangerous wilds :-) The Footnote Amp is a really nice intermediate step; relatively light, ok volume, good features, and the possibility of battery power.
SKB Footnote Amp. Eminance 6.5" guitar speaker with grill and trim ring, EQ-treble and bass, aux in, speaker out, line out, headphone out, power supply, $30
Paul Craig > Walter HaapapuroOctober 6, 2016 at 12:35pm
Nice looking amp and Eminance makes great speakers. Good to see someone using bigger speakers, not a fan of small speakers.
Thanks, it's not exactly cigar box but it should be good and sturdy. I really liked the fact that the kit came with a real speaker. The interesting thing is that it was originally made for a pedal board with a built in amp. In fact it was powered by 6 D batteries so I could power my amp with batteries. Very similar to a Pig Nose with more features.
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Thanks to your introducing these amp units to our group, I get to build a cabinet for one. I think Jon ordered 5 kits for our club. Thanks for the pictures here, it was a good reminder. I have only built a CBG box amp/speaker with a "Gitty" kit one before, this will be totally different. Was there a way to make it battery powered?
I looked at the schematic and layout, it looks like many of the small guitar practice amps that you get when buying a starter package.
I have a 4watt guitar amp that I found on the side of the road that is similar with a First Act label on it. It works, just had a small 4" speaker that sounded like a**. People will throw them away or sell on ebay/craigslist when they get a better amp. They work fine, they just need a decent speaker. I converted mine for guitar or bass/acoustic use by putting the input capacitor on a 2-way switch with a .1uf cap on the other side for bass. I use another speaker for guitar and a subwoofer out of a home surround system for bass or acoustic wired on another 2-way switch. It works great with my CBG's and is loud enough in the music room for my bass.
Nice looking amp and Eminance makes great speakers. Good to see someone using bigger speakers, not a fan of small speakers.
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