Road Rage to DROP voltage?

[eldanko]

I have a friend who want to turn his Vox Amplug into a pedal - says he likes the AC30 tone he gets from it.  The Amplug (as seen here: http://www.voxamps.com/amplug/#page_specifications) runs off of 2 AAA batteries, or 3V. 

Is it possible to use a road rage board (or something similar) to actually drop the incoming voltage to 3V?  What would I need as far as IC/regulator for that?  Thanks friends!

[JakeFuzz]

You need two capacitors, a tiny strip of vero board and a 78L03. Look in the data sheet and you should find a general schematic to make the Vero. 9 volts in on one side and 3 volts out.

[gtr2]

If you get a chance post some gut shots of the amplug.  Just for curiosity sake.   

Josh

[eldanko]

Josh - you know I will!   

Jake - is the following schem correct?  It's the closest I found to what you described.  Not sure why it specifies tantalum...

[JakeFuzz]

Exactly 

it will just be a 3 strip piece of Vero. Two capacitors connect the outer two tracks to the center for ripple filtering. Just connect 9 volts to the input lug, ground is the center lug (usually, you may want to double check as my track record for this is pretty bad  ) and the output lug will give you 3 volts. I usually use bigger caps than that though, mostly 1-10uf I think should be fine.