This happy little dude is capable of putting out 20 watts of crystal clear clean volume (depending on the speaker) and cost me about $40 to build (including getting the power supply off eBay). Based around the use of laptop power supply, as there are a gazillion of them floating around without a functioning laptop to give power to, the Tiny Giant bypasses the danger of high-voltage and allows for a very compact, yet powerful amp. My homemade Fender 5F2-A amp isn’t loud enough for most shows, so I’m working on a bigger tube amp (based on an Ampeg Jet), but it won’t be ready in time.Įnter the Tiny Giant, an amplifier design from (whose projects I fully endorse). Getting ready for our upcoming tour of eastern Canada has me taking stock of what we need for the trip. Those of you who follow us on Twitter know about the excellent records and things I’m alway s picking up there (got a ton of great stuff today, including The Art of Noise, This Mortal Coil, The The, The Boomtown Rats and more…). Oh, and I found the a wesome tin at Goodwill for $0.99. Check it out for yourself at the Blackstone Appliances page. For one, it’s not just another repackaged Tubescreamer, and also the real deal is about half the size of mine and looks great. That said, this is one of the rare builds where I’d almost have preferred just buying the thing. Of course, for the sake of masochistic exhaustiveness, I’m going to build a similar project by the fine fellas at called the Double D (both use the same chip for a similar dual channel idea…) to compare. All told, I’ve been having a ton of fun with this one and recommend checking it out. Without getting too technical, it’s basically a “dual channel” overdrive that allows you to toggle between 2 different gain settings in one pedal-pretty useful if you want to dial in a crunchy rhythm sound then punch up the gain for a solo. After some digging online I had to give it a try. A friend of mine recently picked up a secondhand Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive and was raving about it.
In fact, I probably shouldn’t have taken the time to build this one…but I couldn’t resist. It’s been a while since I had any time to build a pedal.
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