[allthumbs]

A friend of mine built me 1/2 watt cigarbox amp for for 70 bucks. It sounds like a marshal stack and is very very loud. it has a power off switch to save the battery and a toggle from 20 to 200 for gain. It rocks. I will upload a take using it sometime. It is so small, I could move the electronics into a cigarette sized box. Notice my tech gal Micky checking the amp for me.

[Kirk Lorange]

Wow ... I've never heard of or seen anything like it! What speakers do you use?

I really look forward to hearing something played through it. Amazing.

[allthumbs]

I can go through my modeler set to clean or my bad monkey pedal with the settings at clean both running straight into the pc. I could hook up a little 4 inch speaker if i wanted to. My friend sold one to a studio musician who records with it. Every one he makes has a different tone, He made a real mellow one that he put into a cottenel box. One of the reasons I am getting a mini max attenuater is so i can play it through my blues junior. It is so loud that I have to have the amp turned down to .5 which kinda defeats all that high gain goodness. Bonus is that the mini has a line out so i can finally record from my amp.

[Kirk Lorange]

Very cool. I'd love to bring one to a studio for a session! They'd really wonder, wouldn't they?

[Maurice]

LoL.... I like your dog, he is staring at your cigarbox amp like "what the hell is that"

[silverbullet5774]

That is awesome! So when are you gonna start mass producing that tone monster?

[allthumbs]

I will probably make some in the spring just to see if I can do it myself.

[crazymammas]

That is so cool. I love it when people build things like that.

[allthumbs]

Originally Posted by allthumbs

I will probably make some in the spring just to see if I can do it myself.

My friend who made me this one has decided to mass produce them. I will find a link to his site for you. He has also begun to market a custom guitar called a Camelback. I would love to get one. The tonal variety is amazing.
Found it. www.rockbeachguitars.com

[crazymammas]

Thanks allthumbs. And lucky me, I don't have an amp yet, so that will be a cool first. Those camelbacks look like they would have a really nice sound too, but they are outta my price range.

[chuckswood2001]

the amp is a simple 386 audio amp ic, it only needs a few parts to build it and they can all be gotten ar radio shack, if u can soldier a couple parts and some wire u can build it cheap

chuck

[allthumbs]

I played his prototype last year. Sweet axe. It has a real clean tone but, can howl with a tweak. It can sound like a strat or an lp and anything in between. If I ever win the loto, I'm getting at least one.
Remember you still need an amp or cab to play the cg amp through. It is incredibly load for a 1/2 watt mini amp.

[fly135]

I have one of the Smokey Amps, but really don't like it at all. Basically it's just distortion, but IMO not very good.

http://www.smokeyamps.com/Smokey_Pages/smokey.html

I may build myself one of these. Probably have all the parts right here at work.

[allthumbs]

Originally Posted by fly135

I have one of the Smokey Amps, but really don't like it at all. Basically it's just distortion, but IMO not very good.

http://www.smokeyamps.com/Smokey_Pages/smokey.html

I may build myself one of these. Probably have all the parts right here at work.

I will knock out a quick take using it soon. I have to do one anyway for my friend to load onto his site as a sample clip. I have his first prototype. He has a volume knob on the next generation.

[chuckswood2001]

just came back from radio shack, got most of the parts for $16.00, had the capacitors one of the switches and resistor, gonna build it in a speaker box, have an old cassette player - radio and the cassette doesnt work, but it has nice sounding spkrs, will take some pic's as i make it

chuck

ps, radio shack is not the cheapest place to buy the parts, can prob get them for half or less from mail order