Altoids Amp

Step 11 Farwell friends

Post some funky fresh ideas for mods to this instructable, comments, suggestions, or your own minty music instructables. Hope this works out for you, hope you could understand my
sketchy instructions even with the lack of pictures, and I hope you enjoyed yourself.

Comments

[mdog93]

How could you adapt this to amplify a guitar?

[11richie21]

i think you use a jack converter?...

[mdog93]

k, i dont rely know what that is- is it just a component? mdog

[11richie21]

well if your jack is like a headphone jack you can buy a converter from the ipod section at the store like wal-mart. looks kind of like that drawing
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<===(_() <-- bigger jack for mikes and other stuff!

[beehard44]

lol u just made ur first 3D ASCII drawing!!!
a cylinder!
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lol

[mdog93]

oh yh, sorry i know bout that but i think thers sumthin bout the elelctronics which means it wouldn't work with a guitar. ther has been discussions bout using it with a guitar in the past and they have come out as it wudnt work. but i'd like to know how you could make it work. mdog

[zvillesurfer]

i built this for a guitar. it doesnt work very well and i think its because of the fact that when you amplify, say, an ipod, you are amplifying an already strong signal, so you dont have to amplify it very much. On a guitar, you have to crank it up so loud that it gets very distorted and there is a lot of feedback. afterwards i tried it with an ipod and it was very static, although i think i fried something while using it because i dont think it always sounded this bad.

[z-man6233]

ahh but active pickups like EMGs have an internal preamp so the signal is still strong

[mdog93]

yeah, i still think there must be a solution to it, i just don't know enough about it to work out the electronics side of things. mdog

[11richie21]

not really sure

[mdog93]

kk thanjs anyway

[esplonky]

what if you put a distortion pedal chip in it?

[dhaberx]

I built one off of a different instructable's schematic and added in distortion based off of a DOD250 schematic. It works pretty well. Some notes and links can be found here.

[Little_Buster]

I dont think you can put a distortion chip in it as im assuming your talking about the chip out of an effect pedal. The most you can do is Boost the bass and it might give some OD/Distortion. Unless your talking about changing the altoids can into a distortion pedal.

[esplonky]

try taking the chip out and put a button and solder the wires to the chip or something

[Little_Buster]

Oh, you'd probably need a bigger container unless it would be a pcb like in a DOD 250. I'll draw up a schematic that'd fit in the Altoids tin. cheers -Buster

[mdog93]

i wondered whether you could add a speaker, can you have a speaker an a headphone jack ?

[mdog93]

I meant can you have a speaker and a headphone jack? there will be a way but i can't think of it cus the music will come through either the headphones or the speaker or both you need to find a way of it finding out which to use.

[mkkrushmt]

yes, i think so, i have some speakers on my desk that i use for my iPod and i plug them into the iPod like normal headphones. now, if you want to play your guitar through, like really big speakers used on big stages, you may need an adapter, which you can prpbpbly get at radio shack

[m_kunakoff]

I took this a little further by adding a small radio speaker, so now i have my own mini amp that i can play for all to hear