Thank you runoffgroove.com!

My first little gem.  It runs on one 9v and is in a cheap treasure chest that I bought for $2 at a dollar store.  The 1/8" jack isn't a headphone jack, but an external speaker jack for my pot cab.






Here is my little gem clipper.  I can hook it onto my pocket and walk around playing guitar in my apartment.  No volume control, I just use the guitar's volume...and leave it all the way up anyway.  The switch on it goes from clean to OD.  It runs on 3xAA.

The schematic is available at runoffgroove.com and in the schematics section of the forum.

The schematic for this is in the schematics section of the forum.

**Taken from the lm3886 manual @ chipamp.com**

I think that regardless of how scientific it is or not, it would be interesting to compare some top end SS equiptment with some top end tube equiptment.  Have the same guitarist play on both sets of equiptment, and have "tube lovers" and "SS lovers" listen and see if they can tell the difference.  Have the amp and guitarist behind a wall with the speaker cab in the "audience."  It would be interesting at least.

I didn't mean at full volume.  You could get plenty of clean volume out of a bridged parallel lm4780 setup with 200w.

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And as far as the SPIKe protection kicking it, its never happened to me, and I have played mine at painfully high levels.  It seems to be that you just need a massive heatsink, and a large transformer and you'll be fine.  Ask RDV about that.

As far as transparency goes, the lm3886 is pretty close.  Little to no coloring of the sound at all.  Actually, any good poweramp is like that, the non transparency is coming from the preamp.

I don't know about all that, but it has a really good tone as is in the K-20X.  I don't see why it wouldn't when using it for my preamp.  Right now I have it lined out to my lm3886 and it sounds great.  I like it anyway lol.

Now I just need to make a decent looking PCB design and get it printed.

Got it working on my external hd.  Wow, I suck at it lol.  I'm sure I can get the hang of it eventually though.

Yeah, for right now anyway.  I haven't tried it on guitar yet, I play on doing that eventually though as Brian is curious and so am I.  Nothing like 40w of computer speaker power.

I just paid for it.  This is for my lm1875 amp.

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Eagle has been around for a while now, and runs on everything but native solaris and OS/2. Solaris 10 runs it in linux mode just fine, so I dont expect that to change LOL.

http://www.cadsoft.de/

I was going to say for you to use eagle. But its such an obvious answer, I figgured you didnt want to learn eagle to convert it.

I downloaded it and went to install it, only to find that it only works on OSX 10.3, I'm running 10.4.5 lol.  Luckily my external hard drive is running 10.3.9, so I'll boot that up later and try installing it on there.

Out of that list Peavey is all I've played.  Not crazy impressed, it was nice though. 

You have some nice stuff there RDV.  Other than the analog man, are they all built by you?

This is a good point.  But what I was getting at, is a good poweramp sounds like any other good poweramp.  Low distortion and no coloring of the sound.