This is an idea I have had for a long time and I finally designed one. The results are excellent. The amp uses a surface mount car stereo  power amp IC and can produce 25 to 30 watts with a 16V-18V supply into a 4 ohm speaker. The circuit fits in a 1590bb enclosure and has Reverb, Bass, Treble and Gain controls. The tonal response is tailored for guitar in the OP amp stages, along with the James/Baxandall tone stack. The James/Baxandall is a versatile choice because it provides boost and cut. I find it a better choice then the “beef stew” fender tone stacks. Reverb is provided by means of an FV1 DSP IC. It can be omitted easily if desired. The Power amp IC is bonded to the case to provide heat sinking when it is cranked up. I used a piece of  1/2 inch copper pipe -reshaped to be the heat sink. As I have done with some of my earlier amplifiers, I have employed negative feedback from the speaker back to a discrete stage driving the final amplifier. This is a common practice in tube amps to flatten the tonal response of the output transformers and so it is unconventional to apply it here. I find it affects the over all sound in a pleasing manner. The amount of feedback is small and could be increased or removed (this will affect the bias of the JFET Q3) All of the signal chains are low impedance (except the input) and gain distribution is such that the amplifier is very low noise.  The amp powers up when the input is plugged in. The output is not ground referenced so the output jack is isolated from the case -(which is grounded via the heat sink). All you need is a tool battery or 12-18V power supply and a speaker cabinet and you can blast away. The mosfets used for polarity protection and power switching are just high current PMOS devices and not special – lots of other devices will work here. The op amp is a low noise type with a wide supply voltage range – others will work here also.

Things to consider when building:

The amp IC  I used was a surface mount version – and I flipped it upside so I could bond a heat sink to the ground. there is also a leaded version available

Decoupling is critical – especially for power amp – the double decoupling caps on the schematic are one set at each of two VCC pins on the power amp

Capacitors C3 and C11 weight the amplifier to tonally for guitar – these can be changed making both 10uF for example will work fine. If you want to use a Bass guitar make C3 at least 4.7 uF

The passive tone stack was chosen to attenuate gain so that the FV-1 would not be overloaded.  Other tone stacks can be substituted just keep this in mind if you use the FV-1

The Stomp Amp along with some other pedal designs of mine

Schematic Diagram