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Matching Artificial Reverb Settings to Unknown Room Recordings: A Recommendation System for Reverb Plugins

Authors: Peters, Nils; Choi, Jaeyoung; Lei, Howard

AES Convention 133 · Paper 8700 · October 2012

Abstract

For creating artificial room impressions, numerous reverb plugins exist and are often controllable by many parameters. To efficiently create a desired room impression, the sound engineer must be familiar with all the available reverb setting possibilities. Although plugins are usually equipped with many factory presets for exploring available reverb options, it is a time-consuming learning process to find the ideal reverb settings to create the desired room impression, especially if various reverberation plugins are available. For creating a desired room impression based on a reference audio sample, we present a method to automatically determine the best matching reverb preset across different reverb plugins. Our method uses a supervised machine-learning approach and can dramatically reduce the time spent on the reverb selection process.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 133
AES Convention
133
Paper number
8700
Publication date
October 6, 2012
Session subject
Audio Effects and Physical Modeling
Affiliation
International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper