Build your own Cigar box guitar pre-amp and booster!

Now most of us CBG players have electrified our axes by putting a piezo pickup or two in it.   These piezos come with their issues, including low output and a tinny sound.  Here is your chance to build a custom "stompbox" designed to solve these piezo issues.

This version has a toggle switch to choose between simply being a buffer to take away the piezo tinnyness, or buffer plus a boost in power of several decibels.

This JFET pre-amp boosts your signal and evens out the signal response across the sonic spectrum.  Part of the way it does that is making the impedence of a piezo much more to the liking of a guitar amp.

Here is what is included in the kit:

Input and Output jacks

Wire

9V snap

Veroboard

SPST switch

Transistor sockets

All resistors and capacitors needed

JFET transistor

Complete instructions with photographs

You will need to supply solder, a soldering iron and wire cutters/strippers.

You will also need to supply a box to put it in.  You have lots of choices.  You could follow my lead above and use a tobacco tin.  You could go to the hardware store and get a junction box and paint it anyway you want.  You could click on the enclosure link to the left of the page and buy a box from me. 

$19.00 @ for kit