Ok folks, here is a sound clip of my "One Puff" one watt all tube cigar box combo amp. See pics in the picture section. Recorded with a large condensor mic with NO processing. The clip starts with some clean sounds then to overdriven tones both st
Read more…I have successfully prototyped the One Tube Cigar Box Amplifier shown in the Free Plans section. I added two modifications. One for safety and one for guitar and microphone use. The amp must be used with a preamp of some sort in order to drive the
Read more…After building the "One Puff" all tube cigar box combo amp I started thinking about a more compact and powerful design. I came up with a new design called the "Smoke Screen". It is louder, cheaper and easier to build. Since this amp only uses one
Read more…After watching Shane's excellent how to video part 4 I am able to get the basic finger picking pattern he demonstrated. Now I would like to move around a 12 bar blues progression. What is the fretting hand doing for the I, IV and V chord? Is it simpl
Read more…I ran across this amp kit today and thought I'd pass it along. They use a TEA2025B Amplifier IC which is rated at about 5 watts @ 9 volts. This amp is designed to use a 9VDC wall wart due to the higher power however it could be modified to run on bat
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