Designing a low-cost solution for guitarists in Ghana who cannot afford to import effect pedals
Date
2020-05
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Music is a very important part of the Ghanaian society and it serves many
purposes. In more recent times, the guitar has been one of the most widely used melodic
instruments in music production. With the invention of the effect pedal, guitarists
worldwide have been able to use a wider variety of tones to produce more complex and
enjoyable music. In Ghana, however, these pedals need to be imported and this prevents a
lot of guitarists from having a lot of tones to choose from which impedes their craft
primarily because the cost of the pedal increases significantly while access to the pedal
locally is restricted. Often software implementations of the effect pedals are used as
substitutes for their hardware counterparts, but this comes at a cost of the reduction in tone
quality. In this project, a low-cost effect pedal is designed and built to suit the needs of
guitarists who cannot afford imported effect pedals.
Description
Capstone Project submitted to the Department of Engineering, Ashesi University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, May 2020
item.page.type
Capstone project
item.page.format
Keywords
guitar effect pedal, bass guitar, amplifier