Hey everybody! Just wanted to introduce myself. I've been fooling around with tube amps for a few years. NOT a guru by any stretch, just learned enough to be dangerous.  :duh  I got into the low wattage tube amp thing looking for cranked tone without the volume. Even low wattage amps get much louder than one would think. And to get the distortion most people want, you still stick a pedal in front of it!

Another guy at work plays bass and we both have an interest in guitar gadgets and such. This is how we came to acquire Minty Amp kits! Most of you probably know but this is a LM386 based amp and I was impressed at how such a simple circuit sounded. It drives my homebrew 4x12 at the volume I was looking for with the tube amps. Has some good distortion and with a pedal, it rocks.  :tu:  So, what I have in mind is a slightly more powerful and cleaner, small SS amp that would sit between my pedal chain and speaker. Can someone point me to such a project? I'm thinking something around 2W with gain, volume and possibly a tone stack.

cheers!