Taylor Livingston Tiny Giant 20W Solid state amplifier

[farfar]

I would love to see a layout of the Tiny Giant 20W solid state amplifier. It easily fits in a stompbox container. It sounds really good with a preamp or stompbox in front. Low parts count, small size, easy build. Powered by a standard laptop PSU.

Official site
http://musicpcb.com/pcbs/tiny-giant-amp/

Full PDF of the build
http://musicpcb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Tiny-Giant-Build-PDF-rev2.pdf

40 pages of discussion on DIYstompboxes.com forum
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=89687.0

[Dave]

This does look interesting, would be cool to have an amp build.
Thanks
Dave

[alltrax74]

Is this something similar to the EHX 22 caliber ?

[farfar]

alltrax74: Yes, it is very similar to the Caliber 22.

It is also a very nice building block for larger projects. I would like to build a solid state amp with a pedal from this site as a preamp (might end up being the Distortus Maximus). Stuff both inside one box, and you have a pretty decent, and personal, amp with gain, tonestack and on/off switch (to simulate clean/crunch channel setup).

And imagine bridging 2 of these puppies for a 40W amp... That would suit my Vintage30 speaker just fine :)

[alltrax74]

I had a caliber 22 which sounded surprisingly good and very loud for such a small unit

[farfar]

Yes, this little Tiny Giant is VERY loud too. If it's hooked up to decent speakers, it really kicks a**! In a normal pedal enclosure, it can use the box as heatsink. This is very nice stuff, and i cross my fingers that someone will like it enough to draw a stripboard layout :)

[farfar]

I just checked out some nice videos of the Caliber 22. A quick guess would be that the power amp inside is similar to the Tiny Giant, and then a small preamp to make it sound 'guitarish'. It breaks up nice at higher volume.

The Tiny Giant is clean all the way up. In that sense, it could also be used as keyboard amp and whatnot. The cool thing is that you can use any pedal of your choice as preamp, either as stompbox, or put the whole lot in one stompbox to have a 'Noisy cricket on steroids' :)

[Kinski]

This would be awesome to have on vero!

And I just posted a request for a Zvex Nano Head...

[Heath]

Just bumping this one up since I inadvertently opened a new topic on this.

[Kinski]

BUMP for the Tiny Giant!

[Lazy Swamis]

Seeing as the PCB is still "out of stock" it would be really cool to see a layout for this one on vero.

[IvIark]

Yes I'll do this one

[Lazy Swamis]

Alright! My parts have started arriving for this. Getting excited to have a spare amp in my gig bag.

[IvIark]

I'll do the layout in the next couple of days, I've been sidetracked by Bogner emulators and death metal for the last few days.  

In the meantime you can give me some information.  The pics I saw weren't particularly clear, but looking at them it seems to have a pin layout like "A" below, and so we obviously need to shift the second column of pins slightly so it is vero friendly.  Does it look like you will easily be able to shift them to solder as per "B" in the diagram?

[Lazy Swamis]

I left the bits on my desk at work, but I will bring them home tomorrow. I'm perfectly happy to try to bend the pins around to fit. They look pretty stout. I will post a couple pics too.

[Lazy Swamis]

It may be that it is possible to bend them out to each have their own row.

[Lazy Swamis]

The "B" image looks fine.

[IvIark]

Cool, so it looks like you can do that with a row of cuts in between and it'll be like a mini IC.  Cheers

[inefficiency]

On the forum there's a pic of this fitting inside a 1590A!!!! I'm presuming we won't be able to quite pull that off with vero? Either way, I'm really excited about this.

I can't seem to find anywhere what the impedance of the speaker you connect this to needs to be. I mean, it's a guitar amp so I would imagine any standard 8ohm cab would probably work....

[alltrax74]

It should be ok with either 8 or 16 ohms