The always popular "What'll fit in here?" thread

[black mariah]

Had this cool little box for a while. Just a plain 8x5x2 metal case. Thinking about a small amp of some kind, but what uses common parts (no transformers) and is that damn tiny? Maybe a 386 amp? I think I have some of those laying around. Tape some tubes to it and put an LCD at the base, Crate style?

Throw out some suggestions. The weirder the better.

[petemoore]

  Plan a couple amps that could be built in there.
  386 while easy in terms of PS and portability [battery consumption etc.] is a fine chip, soon the shortcomings surface, when it's actually trying to drive a speaker and you want bass-volume at the same time, for guitar, power supply shortcomings are soon realized.
  Suggest: a wall wart [with sufficient current and greater than 2x 9v potential, 18 or more volt supply will support greater accomodation for low notes/ability to drive speaker[s, as power supply, outside the circuit box.
  LM3875 shows single-ended supply schematic, and yepp it does work quite nicely.

[Perrow]

Fuzz Lab or Fuzz Lab Jr maybe.

Just gotta be something with a lot of knobs, switches and buttons.

[EATyourGuitar]

if you think thats bad. try the hammond 1590LB. its 1"x2"x2". I can get 2 knobs, dc power, one audio jack and a small PCB. I have to put paper under the PCB to keep it from shorting to the cover. next I'm gonna try to fit 2 audio jacks so I can actually make an effect pedal instead of the tone generator. if I can get 3 jacks and a PCB, I'm build a passive 2 input ringmod. check out this dead easy dirt schematic.

here is something I built that almost doesn't fit.

[Ronsonic]

For that 1590LB, why not go with flying leads if it's going on your pedal board? Just use a Heyco on the leads for strain relief.

[EATyourGuitar]

edit: OH I get it. audio cables hanging off the pedal. I love it! like a rangemaster or a brassmaster

[Ronsonic]

I picked up a bunch of those little boxes real cheap awhile ago and have been figuring out uses for them. Running leads out instead of jacks would save a bunch of room at that level.