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Reduced feedback. Deeper bass response. And no more "quack," now in an even smaller package! Hi all, it's Shane Speal. A couple years ago, I created a simple hack that allowed you to turn a C. B. Gitty pre-amp into a standalone unit. These plans became so popular, they were included in my upcoming book,  Making a Poor Man's Guitars (Fox Chapel Publishing, October 2018). Just recently, I was perusing an craft store when I discovered some cute, little wooden …

When I first started performing live with my cigar box guitar in 1995, I would shove a tie-tack microphone into the sound hole to amplify it. It was just a cheap $20 mic from Radio Shack that was originally intended to clip on a speaker’s tie or collar when giving seminars.  I was nervously playing coffee-shop gigs at the time, and the mic was good enough for the job at hand. Picture above: Performing with a tie-tack mic in my original Macanudo, Rehoboth Autumn Jazz Fest, …