Converge’s Kurt Ballou on mixing pedals with amp modelers, guitar recording hacks and reclaiming metal’s authenticity

Fifth album Love is Not Enough sees the producer-guitarist embracing modern gear while opposing modern music’s “data-entry” trends – and returning to a jam space filled with Christmas lights and Iron ...
IEEE

Pruning Deep Neural Network Models of Guitar Distortion Effects

Abstract: Deep neural networks have been successfully used in the task of black-box modeling of analog audio effects such as distortion. Improving the processing speed and memory requirements of the ...
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Behringer clones the Lovetone Ring Stinger, a cult classic ring mod/fuzz pedal heard on Radiohead's Kid A

A favourite of Johnny Marr, Billy Corgan and Kurt Vile, Ring Stinger has also been known to reside on Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien's pedalboard, and is responsible for taking Thom Yorke's vocals to ...
IEEE

Universal Rate-Distortion-Perception Representations for Lossy Compression

Abstract: In the context of lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the ...