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Engineering Brief

Snare Drum Data Set (SDDS): More snare drums than you can shake a stick at

Authors: Cheshire, Matthew

AES Convention 149 · Paper 626 · October 2020

Abstract

A comprehensive acoustic Snare Drum Data Set (SDDS) is recorded, providing extreme tonal variation of the snare drum. SDDS affords researchers a collection of recordings that mimic a wide range of real world studio practices, suitable for diverse research tasks. This is achieved by recording varied velocity snare strikes using 53 microphones, 10 tonally distinct snare drums and several common dampening methods, recorded in an acoustically treated studio utilising both close and far micing positions and 3 mic preamps. The resulting data set is 2,544 WAV audio files captured from 48 performances.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 149
AES Convention
149
Paper number
626
Publication date
October 6, 2020
Session subject
Recording, Production, and Reproduction
Affiliation
Digital Media Technology Lab (DMT Lab), Birmingham City University, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief