Design och konstruktion av distorsionseffekt för gitarrer

Sammanfattning: This project has been done as a part of a bachelors degree in engineering at Uppsala university. The project was supervised by Jörgen Olsson at the division of solid state electronics. The goal of this project was to develop a distortion effect that can be used with an guitar and a amplifier. The effect was to have controllable distorsion, volume and tone control including bass and treble. The circuit is also supposed to be run using a 9V battery as power supply, which means that the in circuit currents shold be low. When the circuit was finished it was also analyzed through different measurements and simulations. The distortion of the circuit was achieved using diodes to get a nonlinear amplification. The goals of the circuit controls was achieved, and although a low circuit current was achieved, it only satisfied the goal of 1 mA when high distorsion was set for the circuit. When measuring and simulating the system, some major differences was found. The simulated frequency response characteristics was found to be very different from the measured. This is likely due to the simulation program not being