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Acoustic Timbre Enhancementof Guitar Pickup Signals
with Digital Filters
Helsinki University of TechnologyLaboratory of Acoustics and
Audio Signal ProcessingEspoo, Finland
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Henri Penttinen
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CONTENT How to make a guitar pickup signal sound
natural ?
• WHY ??• REASON• SOLUTION
– Methods– Measurement setups
• Changing the perceived size of a guitar body• Discussion and future work• Conclusions
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WHAT’S THE PROBLEM ?
Quality reproduction of guitar pickupsignals can be problematic in concertsituations
• Internal microphone– Unnatural timbre+ Less acoustic feedback+ NO crosstalk+ Free to move
• External microphone+ Natural timbre– Acoustic feedback– Crosstalk– Cannot move freely
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REASON
A guitar pickup does not notice the guitar body
Amplified guitar pickup signal
GuitarBody
AcousticRadiation
VibratingStrings
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WHAT ARE WE MISSING ?EFFECT OF GUITAR BODY:• Amplifies and colors string vibrations• Typically two strong body resonances (80-200Hz)
– Size does matter ~ SIZE DEPENDENT
• At high frequencies more resonances
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SOLUTION
• A body model filter approximates theimportant characteristics:
• Discrete resonances (low frequency)
• Reverberation (high frequencies)
• Implemented with digital filters
Body ModelFilter
VibratingStrings
PickupSignal
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MEASUREMENT SETUP
Two signals are recorded simultaneously1. Microphone 1 m in front of soundhole
2. Bridge pickup
1m
Calculate transfer function between two signals
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RESPONSES PART IBody model filter forsteel stringed acousticguitar
Steel stringed
MicrophoneGuitar pickupFiltered
x x
a)
b)
c)
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SAME THING BUT WITHNYLON STRINGS
Body model filter forclassical acousticguitar
Classical guitar
MicrophoneGuitar pickupFiltered
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I) Same measurement setup as before
• DIFFERENCE: magnetic pickup
(works only for steel strings)OR
II) Modified Impulse Response (MIR)
• Boost high frequencies
(both steel and nylon strings)
• Magnetic pickup behaves as a lowpass filter (fc = 2-5kHz)
- Body models reverse this effect
TRANSFORM AN ELECTRICGUITAR TO AN ACOUSTIC ONE
1m
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Body model filter forelectric guitar d)
e)
f)
Steel stringed acoustic Electric guitarFiltered (II, steel stringed)Filtered (II, nylon stringed)Filtered (I)
Distorted & clean (no filtering)Distorted & clean (Stereo = I & II)
RESPONSES PART IITHE RETURN OF THE RESPONSES
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DIFFERENT FILTERSTRUCTURES
• Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters– Orders 300 to 5000 (typical 1000)
• Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters– Design methods: Linear prediction andProny’s method (orders 300 to 1000)
• FIR is the best
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DIFFERENT FILTERSTRUCTURES II
• Frequency-warped filters (WFIR & WIIR orders 100-200)
– Unit delays replaced with allpass sections– Frequency resolution can be altered– Improves performance of IIR filters– Further improved by cascading two warped filters
WFIR
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DIFFERENT FILTERSTRUCTURES III
• Reverb algorithms can also be used– Short delay lines produce a colored response
– Computationally very efficient
– Accurate control not possible
Original Reverb I Reverb II
• Model separately the two low frequencymodes
– Improve control and efficiency
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• Low frequency resonances size-dependent• Alter frequency resolution with frequency-warped filters (WIIR)
CHANGING THEPERCEIVED SIZE
• Resonance frequenciesare changed with ONEparameter• Listening testsconfirm• Possible but notstraightforward
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CHANGING THEPERCEIVED SIZE II
• Musically two conceptsI) Stepwise: change after a measure of a riff Original → Smaller Original → Larger
II) Continuos: resembles the phaser-effectElectric guitar with a trulyflexible and time-variant body
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DISCUSSION &FUTUREWORK
• Anechoic vs. reverberant conditions
• Directional hearing
• Measurement setups and microphones
• Acoustic feedback during live performance
• Model for string finger/nail/plectruminteraction
• Only for guitars ?
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CONCLUSIONS
• The response of a guitar body can bemodeled and applied for pickup signals
– Improve the response of an acoustic guitar & make theelectric guitar sound more like an acoustic guitar
• Improve the sound quality in liveperformance situations
–No need to switch between guitars (electricguitar)
• The perceived size of a body can be altered• Sound effects that run in real-time