IDMT-SMT-Audio-Effects

Description

A large database for automatic detection of audio effects in recordings of electric guitar and bass and related signal processing.

• The overall duration of the audio material is approx. 30 hours.
• The data set consists of 55044 WAV files (44.1 kHz, 16bit, mono) with single recorded notes:
  • 20592 monophonic bass notes
  • 20592 monophonic guitar notes
  • 13860 polyphonic guitar sounds
• Overall, 11 different audio effects are incorporated:
  • feedback delay
  • slapback delay
  • reverb
  • chorus
  • flanger
  • phaser
  • tremolo
  • vibrato
  • distortion
  • overdrive
  • no effect (unprocessed notes/sounds)
• 2 different electric guitars and 2 different electric bass guitars, each with two different pick-up settings and up to three different plucking styles (finger plucked - hard, finger plucked - soft, picked) were used for recording.
• The notes cover the common pitch range of a 4-string bass guitar from E1 (41.2 Hz) to G3 (196.0 Hz) or the common pitch range of a 6-string electric guitar from E2 (82.4 Hz) to E5 (659.3 Hz).
• Effects processing was performed using a digital audio workstation and a variety of mostly freely available effect plugins.

Quality

44.1 kHz, 16bit, mono WAV files

Copyright Remarks

Special End User Agreement required.

For details pleas visit http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/eng/business%20areas/smt_audio_effects.htm

Citation

Stein, Michael; Abeßer, Jakob; Dittmar, Christian; Schuller, Gerald: 
Automatic Detection of Audio Effects in Guitar and Bass Recordings. Proceedings of the AES 128th Convention, 2010. 

External Links

http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/eng/business%20areas/smt_audio_effects.htm