Adversarial Guitar Amplifier Modelling with Unpaired Data

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ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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We propose an audio effects processing framework that learns to emulate a target electric guitar tone from a recording. We train a deep neural network using an adversarial approach, with the goal of trans-forming the timbre of a guitar, into the timbre of another guitar after audio effects processing has been applied, for example, by a guitar amplifier. The model training requires no paired data, and the resulting model emulates the target timbre well whilst being capable of real-time processing on a modern personal computer. To verify our approach we present two experiments, one which carries out un-paired training using paired data, allowing us to monitor training via objective metrics, and another that uses fully unpaired data, corresponding to a realistic scenario where a user wants to emulate a guitar timbre only using audio data from a recording. Our listening test results confirm that the models are perceptually convincing.

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Wright, A, Välimäki, V & Juvela, L 2023, Adversarial Guitar Amplifier Modelling with Unpaired Data. in ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 10094600, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, pp. 1-5, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Rhodes Island, Greece, 04/06/2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094600