Hey guys - havent posted anything on here tips wise for a while so thought i'd
throw this one out to you all (the oldies will know this already hehe) but hopefully
this will help some of the new peeps *Grin*...
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Quick n dirty overdrive/distortion/vol boost mod for anything with a LM386 chip
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8 7 6 5 |<----.
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| | / | -- 1k to 100k pot (experiment)
|) LM386| \ |
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1 2 3 4 ---
CAP (try diff values)
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Connect pin 1 of the LM386 chip to pin 8 via a pot and a cap - and voila! dirty overdrive (or just a bit of a volume boost) - works very nicely on anything with one of these chips onboard - the basic principle also works for a lot of other amp chips - just experiment/fiddle :D...
further info:
LM386 pinouts/background info on chip: http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/lm386-power-audio.php
Yeah, this is a nice one.