I want to work with musical instruments

Magnetron
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:37:09 +0000

I have done some design work for a bunch of the audio companies, including some of the bigger names. For the most part, there is not enough money there to pay the bills unless you go to work for a high-volume, offshore production company like Bose or Fender. A place like McIntosh Labs will have a few engineers, but it really hasn’t been the same since Clarion bought them in the early 1990s.

The industry has a whole bunch of small shops (Soldano, Mesa Boogie) and part-time hobbyists (I should have bought those Wright Sound Class As) building the really cool stuff. Getting a job in one of those shops would be great but it is not a huge field.

Guitar manufacturing, except for pickup coils, would be mostly mechanical engineering. Amplifiers and other electronics would be mostly electrical engineering. The amount of audio knowledge you need is only a little and can be picked up on the side.