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portable pre-amp homemade

This is a portable pre-amp I build with reloadable battery built-in and it has a charger you can plug in when coming back home after the show to reload your battery. The pre-amp is specially designed to be robust and light, with a nice metal box, for cigar box guitars piezos and pickups, so you can get a great sound to send into your amplifier. The pre-amp have an input for the guitar, an output for the cable going to your amplifier, and also an output for a headphone ! When using the headphone you can play without disturbing anyone and you don't need your big amplifier, still you will get the great sound coming out from your lovely cigar box guitar :-) There is also a on/off switch so you can save your high quality battery when needed and it will last a very long time. The power plug is a special one so you will not confuse with anyother cables you may already have. I have some in stock that I can sell, and I often build some electronics for friends, so if you need one of these, feel free to send me a message.

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Comment by LittleBigOne on June 10, 2010 at 11:43pm: lol :D ...not sure how long a metal box can float nowadays, until tuesday ? why not, lets try ! :D Anyway even if these items usually sell fast, I am always building some new ones, first because I am always doing my best to improve them, and second because I am not so young anymore and I am a slow worker so I need more time, but anyway I can build on request too. Recently some people gave me ideas to place the charger and the 110-220v transfo in the same box, that is in a cigar box (mind you, don't know where all this people get their ideas ... ;-) ) but I still have to find the right sized boxes, and it has become a real challenge in my country to get boxes anyway, but I'm sure I will find something one day ; until then these little boxes are quite efficients :-)

Comment by Gadsden Guitars on June 10, 2010 at 4:35pm: Wow, cool. But Rodan stole my wallet, float me 'til tuesday!?

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