LM386 chip - drive/distortion mod

[ne7]

Hey guys - havent posted anything on here tips wise for a while so thought i'd
throw this one out to you all (the oldies will know this already hehe) but hopefully
this will help some of the new peeps *Grin*...

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Quick n dirty overdrive/distortion/vol boost mod for anything with a LM386 chip

____________________
|                  |
                    |
8 7 6 5            |<----.
_|_|_|_|_           \     |
|       |           /     | -- 1k to 100k pot (experiment)
|) LM386|           \     |
|_______|           /_____|
| | | |            |
1 2 3 4           ---
                   CAP (try diff values)
|                 ---
|__________________|
             
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Connect pin 1 of the LM386 chip to pin 8 via a pot and a cap - and voila! dirty overdrive (or just a bit of a volume boost) - works very nicely on anything with one of these chips onboard - the basic principle also works for a lot of other amp chips - just experiment/fiddle ...

further info:
LM386 pinouts/background info on chip: http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/lm386-power-audio.php

[computer at sea]

Yeah, this is a nice one.