fstateaudio, One of the benefits of our recent move into a bigger space is that I've been able to set up a workbench for electronics again. My first project has been revitalizing this LM386-based amp that was one of my first builds some years ago. It's based mostly on Beavis Audio's Noisy Cricket, with a few small tweaks.
http://beavisaudio.com/projects/noisycricket/
I'm gonna change the buffer on the input to something with a little boost, because I've noticed it could use it.