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Post by grrrunge »

I whipped up a vero for the ROG Ruby amp tonight - thought i might give it a go, though it's maybe not as compact as i could be. It sounds pretty nice, and is supposed to go in a cardboard box along with a speaker i salvaged from an old tv :) I built mine with a 2N5457. J201's work fine as well.

Here's the vero - verified and all...
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Thanks :) I may give it a go. I have two tinny speakers saved from my old, crashed mac. It will sound geeky with those speakers, but hell... why not :)

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I decided that i liked this one enough to try and compact the layout a bit. It's not verified yet, but should be accurate ;) Here you go:
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Which ohm speakers can you connect to this ?

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Here is my (VERIFIED) version of the one knob Bassman modded Ruby Amp
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Sorry for the lots of jumpers and the jumper crossing. I really wanted to make it as small as possible.
Fits nicely in a 1590A
I built this last week and used a 8ohm 12" 70W speaker for it. It sounds okay to me.

First post BTW (thank you for all the knowledge here).

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Post by kleuck »

Just a suggestion : put a 1 watts resistor of 1/4 the impedance of your speaker, in series in the output.
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kleuck wrote:Just a suggestion : put a 1 watts resistor of 1/4 the impedance of your speaker, in series in the output.
kleuck, I'll try it on the weekend. What does this exactly do?

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I don't want to spoil, it's an experiment, i hear a big difference, want to know if someone else hears the same.
I tried with a true guitar cab (and that's the point...somewhat) so if anybody is willing to make the resistor switchable (just short it) and test with a good cab....
Actually i used a LM380, but doesn't matter.
Tiny built :wink:

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Post by rizibiz »

Allright then, I still have a free DPDT switch next to my pot. :D That was used to switch the 220pF cap on the volume lug but I didn't notice any difference so I finally left out entirely. :hmmm:
Anyways I breadboarded the original two knob Ruby and this 'Bassman' modded one and liked the later better with my Strat. Still somewhat sterile but I don't expect too much from such a low cost low part count build. Btw I drived a real 12" guitar cab with it. Plenty of volume for apartment practice.

Nice brushed enclosure kleuck. Love it. :applause:

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Well, not really brushed...

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kleuck wrote:I don't want to spoil, it's an experiment, i hear a big difference, want to know if someone else hears the same.
I tried with a true guitar cab (and that's the point...somewhat) so if anybody is willing to make the resistor switchable (just short it) and test with a good cab....
Actually i used a LM380, but doesn't matter.
Tiny built :wink:

I make a buffer in this enclosure : Image
That buffer looks good! :) I'm gonna try the resistor trick as well ;)
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Thanks guys ! Hope you will hear something interesting (BTW, a 1/4 watts should be fine actually, i used a 1 watt one as the LM380 is a 2 watts IC, not useful with a 386)
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So, did you hear something ?
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kleuck wrote:So, did you hear something ?
I haven't tried it yet, but i'm still excited to do so. Gotta get me som more free time :?
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kleuck wrote:So, did you hear something ?
I'm going to be honest. I didn't. :oops:
I ran it through my 12" 70W guitar speaker 1x12 cab but no noticeable difference for me with or without the resistor.

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Post by kleuck »

Shit, anyway i used a 1 ohms for a 3 ohms speaker, more obvious result i suppose, i'm gonna make a little TBA820M amp and give it a try with different resistors.
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