Solid State Guitar Amp Forum | DIY Guitar Amplifiers
Solid State Amplifiers => Preamps and Effects => Topic started by: sugrhigh on February 04, 2008, 09:57:39 PM
Nothing big, so don't plan on using it in any amp over about 10W....
but I use it a lot to level out my single coil and humbuckers...
i have a bunch of ideas for it up there also so check out the article (http://thehandyguitarist.blogspot.com/2008/02/chip-jr-up-and-running.html) or my entire blog :tu: (link for blog is in my sig)
Welcome to the wonderful world of the LM386! I am very impressed by this little chip!
I usually use it for a headphone amplifier, low power amplifier or for driving low impedance loads.
I did find the noise factor of early LM386 units to be a bit much for preamps, however, at the time I was dealing with microphone level signals, not electric guitar signals. (for preamps I use either a FET circuit or an NE5532)
I got my inspirations from the wonderful folks over at runoffgroove.com. I did check out your blog, and looks great :)
Take a look over in the "schematics" section of the forum for some interesting uses of the LM386 as a guitar amp. :tu:
yeah, the noise doesn't bother me too much because i like the distortion it gives me when i use my little travel amp (the one that fits on a 1"x1" pcb...) with the tiny speaker, great for AC/DC type stuff!
but thanks for checking out the blog, i hope to finance my next amp using some of the adsense profit hehe