UIUC Physics 398EMI
Physics of Music/Physics of Musical Instruments
Student Projects/Experimental Results
Spring Semester 2005:

• Michael Babbit designed and built a modified version of a Fender 5F2-A Tweed-Era Princeton Amp (551 kb PDF file)

• Tyler Dare used acoustical software to design a multi-purpose auditorium (293 kb PDF file)

• Farsheed Hamidi-Toosi and Jason Laska investigated the use of DSPs for all sorts of sound effects/sound processing (364 kb PDF file)

• Lee Feder repaired and restored a Fender Twin Reverb Amp - it sounded fabulous when done! (44341 kb PDF file)

• Nick Kleeman repaired a pair of speakers and speaker cabinets - sounded great when done! (185 kb PDF file)

• James Milsk fixed/rebuilt a vintage Rickenbacker M-10 amp (1301 kb PDF file)

• Mark Palenik developed his own software program to analyze the harmonic content of musical sounds (89 kb PDF file)

• Michael Peterson developed developed a compact, portable binaural recording system (89 kb PDF file)

• Jessica Phillippe designed and built a Talk Box (1647 kb PDF file)
  Jessica Phillippe (with Ben Wojtowicz) designed and built a FX box that used a 4-quadrant multiplier for a number of neat sound FX! (1536 kb PDF file)

• Chuck Stelzner analyzed the harmonic content of "death-metal"/throat growls, and found out some very interesting things! (5766 kb PDF file)

• Jason Strohmaier designed and built his own high-end CD player! (310 kb PDF file)

• Nicholas Waggoner and Chris McGilliard developed software to morph one musical tune into another (26 kb PDF file)

• Ben Wojtowicz (with Jessica Phillippe) designed and built a FX box that used a 4-quadrant multiplier for a number of neat sound FX! (156 kb PDF file)
  Ben Wojtowicz also investigated the acoustic/mechanical vibrational properties of a number of wooden musical instruments (171 kb PDF file)
  Ben Wojtowicz also tested and measured the performance properties of a 60 W tube amplifier that he had previously designed and built (152 kb PDF file)

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