Deep Learning for Tube Amplifier Emulation

@article{Damskgg2019DeepLF,
  title={Deep Learning for Tube Amplifier Emulation},
  author={Eero-Pekka Damsk{\"a}gg and Lauri Juvela and Etienne Thuillier and Vesa V{\"a}lim{\"a}ki},
  journal={ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  year={2019},
  pages={471-475}
}
Analog audio effects and synthesizers often owe their distinct sound to circuit nonlinearities. [] Key Method Specifically, a feedforward variant of the WaveNet deep neural network is trained to carry out a regression on audio waveform samples from input to output of a SPICE model of the tube amplifier. The output signals are pre-emphasized to assist the model at learning the high-frequency content. The results of a listening test suggest that the proposed model accurately emulates the reference device. In…
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