mini guitar amp (battery) - with delay or reverb?

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lcipher3

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Looking for a small (tiny) not loud guitar ideally rechargable battery powered "mini amp" for practice. Does NOT have to sound like a million bucks - nor does it have to crank. I just want something I can instantly turn ON and play w.o booting up a computer or messing with tube amps etc.

Anyone have any of these ? There are a ton out there but obviously some are probably really trash. Mainly clean sound - jazz, etc. Seems like delay or reverb would help the "sound" not be a thin - but again, just looking for a bone simple practice amp vs listening to the dry electric guitar strings. I'll be sitting about a foot or two away - so no "20watt" blast the place type stuff.
 
yeah no headphone types. Have one - works and sounds great but don't want the "in-the-ear" effect.
This may be more of an "experiment" than anything - just trying things out. We'll see how far down this rabbit hole I go!
 
lcipher3 said:
yeah no headphone types. Have one - works and sounds great but don't want the "in-the-ear" effect.
This may be more of an "experiment" than anything - just trying things out. We'll see how far down this rabbit hole I go!
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You could always make a small “extension cab” using 2 watt computer speakers to plug into the headphone amp. I’ve used those with the ROG Ruby circuit to make cigar box amps and they sound pretty nice.
 
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You may want the BT edition, which is about $25 more. You can stream to it and/or play along if that is attractive.

(I've used this link only for reference)

 
I built a little SS system. Preamp pcb with TMB and a pre-built power amp pcb, and a homemade buck converter to use a Dewalt 24v drill battery. Stuck it in a tweed champ enclosure with a Jensen Special. It sounded okay but I could have bought one wayyyyy cheaper. :ROFLMAO:
 
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I built a little SS system. Preamp pcb with TMB and a pre-built power amp pcb, and a homemade buck converter to use a Dewalt 24v drill battery. Stuck it in a tweed champ enclosure with a Jensen Special. It sounded okay but I could have bought one wayyyyy cheaper. :ROFLMAO:
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my "rabbit hole" thought process exactly: what if I made an amp circuit, and threw in a gravitation delay, and a speaker, small case, etc, etc.... oh and rechargeable li battery.... :rolleyes:
 
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Check out monoprice. They have a tiny amp that sounds pretty good. And I think it's around $50. No reverb or delay, but a pretty solid sound.
 
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That Blackstar Fly 3 looks ideal: has delay, sounds decent, batteries that last a long time. We'll have to see if it goes on sale maybe....
 
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You mean make one?

The Ruby solid state amp on Rob Robinette's site is a nice sounding J201/LM386 amp and you can use the MP1584EN chip with 18650 S4 serial sled(s) as a buck down with a super high 1.5mhz switching that is very quiet, unless you know anyone that can hear 1.5mhz whine.

Build a reverb pedal board into that. Boom. I'm actually working on that, btw, I'll probably throw in a klon and a delay too - not pedals, but pedal PCB's wired to the faceplate. I just got all the parts as of a couple days ago, I'll be working real slow on it tho, busy busy busy......

I'm making a 4x6" with Jensen mod 6/15's "half stack" to go with it. Listen to the sound samples on the Jensen site, it's an ass kicking tiny speaker.....

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You mean make one?

The Ruby solid state amp on Rob Robinette's site is a nice sounding J201/LM384 amp and you can use the MP1584EN chip with 18650 S4 serial sled(s) as a buck down with a super high 1.5mhz switching that is very quiet, unless you know anyone that can hear 1.5mhz whine.
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I dig Mr. Robinette's site. Have learnt more than two things there. ;)
 
fig said:
I dig Mr. Robinette's site. Have learnt more than two things there. ;)
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It's where I learned to how to read schematics. I was a computer programmer, never had any formal electrical education, did the director of IT gig, the consulting gig, got arthritis, now I do the retired gig, lol....
 
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