Two brand-spankin' new amps!

[Guitar Gear Reviews]

Hi everyone, new user here with some almost equally new stuff to share.  I just got into stompboxes and amps within the past few months (guitar within the last year) and started my own blog Guitar Gear Reviews at http://electricguitargear.blogspot.com/  No, this is not a sales pitch, its just easier to read and see pics there.

Anyway, I have thus far made two complete amps, one very nearly complete pedal, a mostly complete combo amp/cabinet made of vintage speakers and another not-so-complete amp.  I have finished pages already up for the two completed ones.

The first of the two is a Smokey amp clone and was my first DIY project of this sort.  While it's nothing special technically I built it into a soup can and christened it the "Souped-Up" amp.  I know, I know, hold the applause. Pics http://electricguitargear.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-souped-up-amp.html

The second I made for a school science fair project and is a lot more interesting.  It is loosely based on the Noisy Cricket (as if there weren't enough Cricket clones )  I added a couple pots and changed around some values and the resulting amp is...  well why don't you just check it out and tell me what you think    http://electricguitargear.blogspot.com/2014/01/science-fair-experimental-lm386-amp.html

[Jdansti]

Interesting stuff!  I'll have to check out the Zobel network net time I build a Noisy Cricket.

As for the issue with the output pot (volume) mentioned in your blog, are you using a pot with an audio (log) taper or a linear?  It could make a difference.

[Guitar Gear Reviews]

Thanks, yeah I did use a linear pot for convenience.  Even so, the change from loud to very quiet is immediate, like a switch.  If anything, using linear should make it decrease volume more slowly!  At first I thought the pot might just be bad, now I think it's just that 10k ohms was too much. 

Since I'm converting (some of) the circuit over to a more permanent enclosure/speaker setup anyway it would be nice to know if a 1k ohm pot and a resistor on the output would work for volume control (since I have no 25 ohm pots).

Answers to any of the other mysteries would be greatly appreciated as well.   

[pappasmurfsharem]

Thanks, yeah I did use a linear pot for convenience.  Even so, the change from loud to very quiet is immediate, like a switch.  If anything, using linear should make it decrease volume more slowly!  At first I thought the pot might just be bad, now I think it's just that 10k ohms was too much. 

Since I'm converting (some of) the circuit over to a more permanent enclosure/speaker setup anyway it would be nice to know if a 1k ohm pot and a resistor on the output would work for volume control (since I have no 25 ohm pots).

Answers to any of the other mysteries would be greatly appreciated as well.   

Not really. Audio as our ear perceives it has a logarithmic curve.