{"id":80,"date":"2009-11-10T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djdan.hopto.org\/dan\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-11-10T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:04:58","slug":"video-blog-mini-amp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Video Blog: Mini Amp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all, today I was given a special gift (well, I paid $24, but it was a gift nonetheless): a microphone pre-amp circuit (with mic integrated) AND a 0.5 Watt Mini Amplifier! Wow. I built both of them during class, it took about 1h30min to do both, and test. They are so awesome, the amp especially, so I made a video.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CX7c-Nr0M44&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CX7c-Nr0M44&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>My first attempt at video blogging. Unscripted, edited to remove screw ups. Oh, technology&#8230; In any case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canakit.com\/0-5w-universal-mini-amplifier-kit-ck026-uk026.html\">mini amp<\/a> is friggen&#8217; awesome! A very simple design, aside from the IC, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canakit.com\/electret-microphone-pre-amp-kit-ck495-uk495.html\">mic pre-amp<\/a> is even simpler. I&#8217;m not sure if I am allowed to post this or not (if its copyrighted, let me know and I&#8217;ll take them down), but I&#8217;ve scanned the schematics in case anyone was interested in building their own. Of course, those two links are direct links to the inexpensive kits, so if you don&#8217;t feel like looking for the parts, you can order the kit with all the parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mic-Preamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-81\" title=\"Schematic for Mic Pre-amp\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mic-Preamp-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"Schematic for Mic Pre-amp\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mic-Preamp-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mic-Preamp-1024x949.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mic-Preamp.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mini-Amp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" title=\"Schematic for Mini Amp\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mini-Amp-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Schematic for Mini Amp\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mini-Amp-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mini-Amp-1024x977.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schematic-for-Mini-Amp.jpg 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was really quite impressed with how powerful the amplifier was. It is strong enough to drive my two-way, dual 6&#8243; sub, floor-standing speakers, and create enough bass to feel in my pant legs and vibrate on my desk, equivalent to the volume I&#8217;m listening to music with my home theater amp right now. My predictions earlier at school were right: it would be equivalent to normal listening volumes. According to the equalizer display on my amp, it says about 0.1watts are going to the speakers right now. Now, I should be able to overtake any radio station with my FM transmitter!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all, today I was given a special gift (well, I paid $24, but it was a gift nonetheless): a microphone pre-amp circuit (with mic integrated) AND a 0.5 Watt Mini Amplifier! Wow. I built both of them during class, it took about 1h30min to do both, and test. 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