Hey guys, (first post) and I only chose such a geeky name so I could have the same name for my SS guitar account as my UG account

I have just built my first amp, a noisy-cricket. It works fine, the tone control is a bit disambigous though, as in I can only just tell if its one way or the other. The clean is also very nice. But the amp only sounds good on really low volumes, as in ear to the speaker low. I was thinking I could find a battery powered power amp to make it louder, as I only built the thing because it was battery powered. Or maybe I should just build a louder battery powered amp? I heard that the little-rebel is good, but I've only heard the thing in high gain, does it sound good in clean?

So any suggestions?