Sitting around bored, and this is what I did

[Tony W]

I was directing traffic for my Company's annual meeting. Believe me, there wasn't much traffic. I took the electric guitar and the micro BR and decided to have a little fun. While sitting there I stepped it up a notch.

I have a 400W inverter in the vehicle and the oooohhh so friendly auxiliary jack for the stereo. It just so happened that I had a dual male 3.5mm jack available, so I figured what the hell, lets turn the car into an amp.

Genius is bred from boredom! It works like a champ.

Am I the first to try this?

[Kody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jLSUSqH55Q

[Kody]

Or, my personal favorite........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqv9Z6W4nCY

[Bro]

I think your the first. I've heard a story of Mark Knopfler making a amp out of his radio 2,5 watts He realized that you also need a amp for a electric guitar Classic!

[Glenn Mitchell]

Cool, so we need an AC DC inverter? Surely not 400 watts tho?
Not sure I have an input on my Volvo in the end tho.

[Tony W]

Cool, so we need an AC DC inverter? Surely not 400 watts tho?
Not sure I have an input on my Volvo in the end tho.

You don't even need the inverter, I just used it because I didn't want to run through more batteries on the MBR. I sat on a road giving directions to 30 different vehicles in a 3 hour block of time. I'm sure I'd have eaten 2 sets of batteries during that time.

I got plenty of practice in on 48's blues lesson!

[3guitarsEddy]

I found out 30 odd years ago that if I connected the jack plug wires to a connector on my single play record player I had a built in amp, not very loud but it sound like the records.  I think it was a dansette.

Eddy

[Ferryman_1957]

I think your the first. I've heard a story of Mark Knopfler making a amp out of his radio 2,5 watts He realized that you also need a amp for a electric guitar Classic!

That's what I did nearly forty years ago. My first amp was an old Bush radio like this:



My cousin was an electronics wiz and he knew I would need a preamp. he built me a small preamp circuit in a tobacco tin, I plugged the whole lot in and voila - a truly horrible sound. But at least I could hear what I was playing. Used to jam along to early Pink Floyd records using this set up.

The young folk of today have it so easy compared to us oldies!!!

Cheers,

Nigel

[SE]

Hey Nigel respect, top quaility HIfi

[Sprocket]

Thats pretty cool...but for some reason it scares me, I just remember damaging my Dad's old(hand-me-down) Kenwood speakers as a kid plugging into the amp section dirrectly. My car stereo??? No way! Ive heard how it works my headphones sometimes...and thats usually followed by thoughts of buying new headphones.

I highly recommend the Roland Microcube...4 AAA batteries, 24 hours continuous use...and can be used as a monitor for the MBR.
I scored one off Craigslsit for $50...liked it so much bought a second one for $70.

BTW, I bought these 3-4 months ago, used them lots...and have yet to replace the batteries in either one...and Ive played lot of MP3s through them.