Has anyone ever used a starkist tuna can as an or other food can as a stompbox enclosure?

I'm saving up altoids-type tins for a run of LFOs, pocket amps, true bypass loopers adn the like.

-Colin

Kick ass! I wanted to do a pocket sized amp as well.  How many watts are you gonna have.  Definately send me pics if you do any of those

You should be able to fit a practice amp in a tuna can:

http://www.smokeyamps.com/

- Mark

I've done the little gem into the altoids tin thing, quite a handy thing to have around actually.
And years ago I had a small speaker that I glued to the bottom of an empty plastic peanut butter jar, with just an input for the speaker, it was a fun thing to play with, could get almost wah like if you had someone flap the lid over the opening whilst playing. I think finally I blew it up by running too big of an amp through it.

Yeah, the PB speaker idea is cool, I've done likewise with a small speaker on a piece of PCV pipe, miked at the other end. Make the pipe long enough and you get that cool "Living is easy with eyes closed" Sgt pepper strawberry fields forever thing for vocals..
Used to get that wah sound too with a old pignose I had, if your buddy flaps it open and closed you get a semi wah effect ...

Regards,

Lone

I'm going to do just some simple LM386 ones.  Those babies can pump though!

-Colin

Please guys post some pix.  BTW I was thinking that those new round altoids tins would make a great fuzz face enclosure!!

ok there's the altoid amp, the piece of notecard you can see in the inside view gets folded over so it doesn't short out on the lid.
I thought I still had the PB jar kicking around somewhere but I may have thrown it out since the speaker was burned.

this was my first project in a Smith Kendon candy box


i actually retired the tin and put it in a stompbox tho.....

Quote from: thumposaurus
ok there's the altoid amp, the piece of notecard you can see in the inside view gets folded over so it doesn't short out on the lid.
I thought I still had the PB jar kicking around somewhere but I may have thrown it out since the speaker was burned.

that looks cool!!

do have a schematic for it?

my recent EA trem build was in an old promotional winston cigarette tin. round, slightly larger than a tuna can. there was *plenty* on room. i built it on busboard pretty compactly. i'm sure it could fit in an altoids box. as long as there are 3 or less knobs and the board is small, should fit no problem. oh, mine used a fulltone 3pdt, might have to not use that to fit in an altoids.

durability-wise it's holding up quite well.

Hi,

Yes, i build moved a FuzzFace Circuit into a TunaCan  :lol:

If You want to do so, You have to clean the Can well, otherwise it will
smell like a FishFace...  :shock:

bye
Oliver

Quote from: lightningfingers

that looks cool!!

do have a schematic for it?

It's the "Little Gem" circuit, from runoffgroove, I just did away with the volume control and wired the two pins that control the gain together so it is always on 10.

can i use half a dual opamp in place of the single one?
or does that not work

Quote from: lightningfingerscan i use half a dual opamp in place of the single one?
or does that not work

That will work just fine.  You could always use the other half for a buffer, or cascade them.

Why waste it?  

Derek

Quote from: lightningfingerscan i use half a dual opamp in place of the single one? or does that not work

The Little Gem uses a LM386, which is a specialized amplifier chip, not an op-amp(though you can make a great headphone amp with op-amps[see //www.headwize.com]). If that that's not what you were talking about, then ignore this. :wink:

Regards

RDV

I made an amp channel switcher out of a candy tin.



And an audio oscillator out of another candy tin:

Quote from: RDVThe Little Gem uses a LM386, which is a specialized amplifier chip, not an op-amp

Thanks

"The Little Gem uses a LM386, which is a specialized amplifier chip, not an op-amp."

Which also has a double purpose of providing a Vref.
RG put up a post about that a few weeks ago.