Ruby amp build

[DryRoasted]

Just finished my Ruby amp tonight and wow! I'm blown away by it.  To be honest I wasn't expecting much from 5 cap's, 3 resistors, a FET and a 386 IC but wow its so versatile and clean it puts my bought amps in quite an unfavourable light (Marshall 8080 and MG30DFX - yeah I know their not "clean" amps but when you pay for 2 channels you expect 2 useable channels).

I found some sound clips of various ruby builds and you know how it is with sound clips, you never know how much cleaning up or extra effects embellishment has been added, but it is as good as the clips. 

lol, From now on I think building a ruby should be part of the "rights-of-passage" for DIY'ers, kinda like a craftsmans masterpiece to move from apprentice to master. 

[lchyi]

Nice, I'm working on a Ruby right now and though I haven't completed it, it seems like a fairly standard build but the catch for me was that every sound clip I heard of it was fantastic! So yea, +1 to you brotha.

[dano12]

I felt the same way about the Ruby (finished my first a few weeks ago). Great little project and can really generate some nice tones. Have you tried running it with a clean boost in front of it--it can get growly and nasty (in a good way) very quickly.

Congrats on the build.

[psiico]

It might already be a right of passage, I'm building one too.  Mine is a little different though, I'm still tweaking on the breadboard but mine uses a fetzer valve then a fender tone stack (Duncan's Tone Stack Calculator) then into bridged LM386's.  I'm trying to decide between adding a switchable diode clipping stage or just use the gain from the 386's for distortion.  Clean tone sounds amazing though.

[bancika]

I never really gave a chance to my ruby build, when I tested it with good speaker I only had bass around and when I had guitar there were only some crappy 4" speakers so I dissasembled it and made Little Gem MK2.
Congrats on your build

[DryRoasted]

Thanks!  I'm also thinking about putting a tone control on it, just a simple one knob in my case though.

[bancika]

you'll need some kind of clean boost before tone control, because of gain loss

[DryRoasted]

ah pants, ok