Jim Morrison is still alive apparently! Jk glad to have found your channel, I'm exploring builds using this chip. It's a whole lot of fun, especially when using big old tube capacitors and carbon comp resistors. It can definitely be designed to sound like a great amplifier.
If you go back to it, the buffer actually uses a Jfet, you can setup multiple stages of that to allow for more control of the tone by inserting a tonestack. Check out the 1Wamp ... you’ll see what I mean.
I really like that you show the not so great moments in building electronic projects. Most channels show these easy 2 minute builds with no problems. Not ever realistic. I usually say the exact words you did at least twice every project. Also came to the same conclusion you did regarding just using one chip instead of two. The volume boost with 2 compared to one is very disappointing. The noise level was terrible with two, no problem with one. In my experimentation with the dual I did come across a circuit where it was insanely touch sensitive to your playing pressure. Touch the strings very lightly and 100 percent clean. More pressure both louder and distortion. Play hard and all out thick distortion. Or anywhere in between. However not practical for most playing.
How the fuck do you grab a handful of shit from your attic and a speaker from grandpa's radio and get a better sounding amp than the $500 POS I bought. Must be the literal blood, sweat, and burnt flesh that goes into it. Awesome video man!
That thing is a fucking beast. Like I'd buy that, at least in a different housing or with some shielding. One good thing coming out of this Quarintine are these videos for sure
The LM386 is a demonic object from a parallel dimension. There are circuit tweaks yet to be made. What could be done with gyrators and hard clipping, I wonder…
Précisément! Regardez dans la pédale EQD Acapulco Gold, qui est simplement 2 étages du LM386, avec le gain du premier maximisé, et le gain du second est le seul bouton de la pédale. C'est vraiment un amplificateur opérationnel fantastique, et tellement bon marché !
There you have your 666th subscriber! Hey man I see that you have a Valvestate head, I also have one but it makes a loud 'POP!' noise when I turn it on, after that it works ok but... if I plug ANY guitar pedal, the signal gets barely noticeable and it pretty much doesn't sound, even at full volume. I've tried these pedals in other amps with different cables and I know everything works. Do you have any idea on what may be going on? Anything to start looking at? Thanks BTW
If you're using any kind of surge protector or adapters that cab mess with your ground. So make sure nothing it interrupting your amps connection to ground.
@@jokinmyass9446 I had to take it to a local amp builder and he found some loose connections coming from the power input, also the main 4 capacitor were replaced and now it works like a charm. I also replaced the reverb tank with one gotten from amplified parts and I love this thing! greetings from Colombia.
In a 4x12 it was loud enough to feel a little low end rumble but the neighbors won't be freaking out. The speaker out can be used to send signal to a larger power amp as well and then it could be insane.
I'm trying to build the little gem mk2 as a first audio electronics project. Waiting on some more parts to come in. I'm trying to understand what modifications you made to the original schematics. Am I right that the doom sound was created by linking the 1-capacitor-8 connections of both LM386's together? Would love to throw in a switch to make it doom.
Yes I've got some strange intermodulation going on either from a shortcoming in the power supply filtering or possibly how the LM386 has its outputs connected. I made this version out of some parts I had laying around. If I do another amp like this I would make some changes to have some more flexibility and beef up the power supply for sure.
think if you used some HVAC tape on the inside (like a faraday cage} of the plastic shell it would help mitigate some of that RF being emitted by your phone?
