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nick123 over 10 years ago

How can I make a transistor amp that can amplify a electric guitar?

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jw0752 over 10 years ago in reply to nick123 +1

Hi Nick, Yes you could use an LM386 which can give you approximately 1 watt power output. You will also have to build a preamp to drive the LM386 as the voltage from your guitar pickups is fairly low.…
D_Hersey over 10 years ago +1

The Zout of an electric guitar is on the order of 30K ohms. Therefore, I would work on a preamp to get me out of this regime, where I could use Plain-Off-The-Shelf tech for the right-hand side of the gain…

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0 D_Hersey over 10 years ago

The Zout of an electric guitar is on the order of 30K ohms. Therefore, I would work on a preamp to get me out of this regime, where I could use Plain-Off-The-Shelf tech for the right-hand side of the gain-chain.
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0 D_Hersey over 10 years ago

The Zout of an electric guitar is on the order of 30K ohms. Therefore, I would work on a preamp to get me out of this regime, where I could use Plain-Off-The-Shelf tech for the right-hand side of the gain-chain.
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