UIUC Physics 406
Acoustical Physics of Music
Student Projects/Experimental Results
Spring Semester 2012:
3. Clayton Carr and Steven Troscinski designed and built a prototype drum head tension measuring device.
4. Cody Jones installed a piezo transducer on his Epiphone PR-100 acoustic guitar and designed and built a 3-band preamp for it.
5. Danylo Hirnyj designed and built a pair of noise-cancelling headphones.
6. Gregory Francis made a pair of ocarinas and measured some of their acoustic properties.
7. Ian Dayton built a pair of humbucking pickups for his Epiphone Les Paul guitar and measured their EM properties.
8. James Hans built a CMOY headphone amplifier and compared op-amp performance characteristics.
9. James Kolthoff built a GM Arts overdrive pedal and measured some of its tonal properties.
10. John Johnson designed and built a tublum, and measured some of its acoustic properties.
11. Joshua Frank modified his Rogue GS100R guitar amp and carried out before-vs-after sonic comparison measurements.
12. Michael Boehme designed and built a 4x4 speaker array using 4" speakers and measured the complex acoustic sound field in proximity to the array at various frequencies
13. Michael Zevin carried out a series of measurements of the acoustic properties of a double bass and compare them to that of an electric bass guitar.
14. Robert Osiol built a wah pedal for use with his synthesizer, simulated the wah circuit, and compared wah performance simulations to actual wah performance measurements.
15. Suzie Chung measured the reverberation time(s) vs. frequency of a lecture hall (190 ESB on UIUC campus).
17. Tsung-Lin Hsieh used data from a leaky/chaotic faucet experiment to generate fractal music.
18. Vasilij Acic measured/compared some of the acoustical properties of two acoustic guitars.
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