Small practice amp?

[ESPguitar]

What would be a good project for a small practice amp for very late evenings ? (a combo)

I play all from metallica to Children of Bodom.. So i need a lot of distortion..

And a clean channel would have been great to have also..

Any good ideas? Or should i just buy a small crappy amp?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

RB

[nelson]

http://www.runoffgroove.com

ruby amp,

can be built into a combo amp.

http://www.diyguitarist.com

has a photo diary of building the amp.

[ESPguitar]

Thanks,  

I'll take a look..

RB

[NaBo]

If you want something cleaner and with more output than something like a ruby, you should go with a TDA20x0-based amp...   GGG has a project based on those chips:

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=189&Itemid=214

My old Crate practice amp uses a TDA2030 and I actually kind of liked the old thing... it runs the chip 15+ to 15- rail to rail, but they had to use a pretty big heatsink on the chip.  The overdrive channel sucks, the DSP onboard effects stage is rather unfortunate (though it was fun when i didn't know any better), but the clean was always pretty good.

[Aharon]

Build one of the GGG ss amps and a Sans Amp and you got the whole range of tones.
I have the TDA amp all built waiting for a transformer,actually I made the power supply,it's the connector I'm missing.
Aharon