I'm a beginner with EE and trying to find the peak amplitude of an electric guitar signal (0-300mV) using an Arduino's 0-5v ADC. I'm going to use the data to pulse lights in accordance with each strum of the guitar.
I've figured out so far that I need to use op-amps to:
- Rectify the 0-300mv AC signal (full or half wave)
- Amplify the signal to 0-5v
- Use a voltage peak finder to locate the peak
- Use a buffer to protect against impedance (not sure if I need this?)
I've found circuits that use op-amps to do all of these, and they work fine, however they are all independent of each other.
My Question: is how do I combine all of these together into one circuit and how many op-amps should I really need. My approach initially was just to daisy chain everything, but I'm not sure that's the correct approach. Also, most of these use a buffer op-amp as the last step, do I really need one if I'm sending the signal into an ADC?
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