Velleman Guitar Preamp Kit

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• Practice without disturbing others!
• Can also be used as a preamp
• Simple connection, guitar in, headphones out
• Runs on a standard 9V battery
• (requires assembly)

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Easy to build, sturdy and durable. It's a typical Velleman kit: a bunch of parts and a preprinted circuit board; it took about an hour to solder all the parts to the board. It's a good alternative to a set of amplified headphones if you want a quiet "practice" amp. Not a lot of tonal variety but it does produce a very clean and pure sound. Only complaint is that it has 1/8" phono plugs when every guitar player in the universe uses 1/4" jacks, so you're going to end up using your entire collection of adapters.

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If your just getting into soldering this is a good easy and fun way to learn. It takes about 30 min to build, and that's taking your time,everything is common sense... Only bad thing is this preamp uses RCA cables, it's junk to use it with a guitar you need 1/2" so you should modify it for the 1/2" jacks... This sucker is super loud without moving the volume up,so it will be smart to invest in an attenuator to reduce the amplitude of the preamp. All in all sound quality is more then acceptable.

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This is a great little project.

Easy to assemble. Solder pads were easy to access. Directions were clear.

Sound is great.

The module does not come with an adapter for the 1/4" to RCA adapter for the guitar jack -readily available throughout Amazon or local electronics shack.

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I am an experienced electronics guy with a really nice weller temperature controlled iron and all the trimmings. The components of the board were solderred in, I used typical good practices of cleaning the board thoroughly to remove any dirt or other impurities that can impede solder flow. I used a rosin core solder that has a small amount of flux. The solder flow on the plating board was really lousy and two of the lands lifted up almost immediately when heated this really ticked me off. As one of the other reviewers indicated, the audio input jack and output jacks are RCA connectors. I dont know a single guitar player that would have am RCA to 1/4 or 1/8" adapter, this is just plainly stupid. I would not recommend this kit.