Welcome to the AME Guitar Amplifier Project! The AME Guitar Amplifier can be used as an amplifier for your guitar or phone, or as a distortion pedal with a tone control. 

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A challenge in designing first-year engineering curriculum is meeting the needs of a group of students with diverse academic backgrounds. Educators in the field of audio and acoustical engineering are often tasked with simultaneously preparing majors to be successful in their subsequent coursework while delivering a course that is both accessible to and exciting for all students. At the University of Rochester, we offer a survey course that introduces students to fundamental concepts in acoustics, signals, and audio electronics in which we leverage students’ existing experiences with sound and music in a project-based environment. Students complete a series of laboratory exercises where they interact with the science of audio by building a guitar amplifier circuit from scratch. Analyzing a schematic, soldering components, solving equations, seeing waveforms, and HEARING the results of their work allows all students to engage in the content more deeply than any of these activities in isolation. 

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This site has all the resources needed to incorporate this project into a curriculum. Lab manuals, LTspice simulation files, and PCB layout files can be found on the File Repository page, and a digikey cart with every component required for the build can be found here.

 

Please feel free to use all of the materials on this site and reach out using the contact information at the bottom of the page.