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    This document discusses live multi-track audio recording and a method to resolve individual sound sources from each microphone recording. It aims to separate out the "dry sound" from each source, which gets mixed together due to each microphone picking up sound from multiple sources simultaneously during a live recording. The method models the recording system using linear algebra equations to represent the mixing of different sound sources based on room impulse responses measured between each source and microphone. Experimental results show the method successfully removes cross-talk between channels compared to simply equalizing each channel individually. More accurate room response measurements could improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the recovered dry sounds.

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    This document discusses live multi-track audio recording and a method to resolve individual sound sources from each microphone recording. It aims to separate out the "dry sound" from each source, which gets mixed together due to each microphone picking up sound from multiple sources simultaneously during a live recording. The method models the recording system using linear algebra equations to represent the mixing of different sound sources based on room impulse responses measured between each source and microphone. Experimental results show the method successfully removes cross-talk between channels compared to simply equalizing each channel individually. More accurate room response measurements could improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the recovered dry sounds.

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    Immersive Audio Signal Processing

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    This document discusses live multi-track audio recording and a method to resolve individual sound sources from each microphone recording. It aims to separate out the "dry sound" from each source, which gets mixed together due to each microphone picking up sound from multiple sources simultaneously during a live recording. The method models the recording system using linear algebra equations to represent the mixing of different sound sources based on room impulse responses measured between each source and microphone. Experimental results show the method successfully removes cross-talk between channels compared to simply equalizing each channel individually. More accurate room response measurements could improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the recovered dry sounds.

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    Live recording of multi-track

    audio

    Motivation
    Studio recording
    Each sound track is recorded separately

    Joao Luiz Carvalho

    Live Recording
    Concerts, band practice
    All tracks recorded simultaneously
    Each microphone perceive sound from
    multiple sources
    Overall quality is lower

    EE522 Project

    04/24/2007

    Objective

    System Model
    H1A

    Resolve the dry sound coming from each


    source in a live recording

    H2B

    H3C
    H4D

    yA= x1 * h1A + x2 * h2A + x3 * h3A + x4 * h4A

    System Model
    x1

    H1A

    H1A

    ya

    2A

    3A

    x3

    H3C

    x2

    H 4A

    3A

    H2B
    H 4A

    2A

    x4

    H4D

    System Equations

    Frequency Domain Linear System

    yA= x1 * h1A + x2 * h2A + x3 * h3A + x4 * h4A

    YA= X1 H1A + X2 H2A + X3 H3A + X4 H4A

    yB= x1 * h1B + x2 * h2B + x3 * h3B + x4 * h4B

    YB= X1 H1B + X2 H2B + X3 H3B + X4 H4B

    yC= x1 * h1C + x2 * h2C + x3 * h3C + x4 * h4C


    yD= x1 * h1D + x2 * h2D + x3 * h3D + x4 * h4D

    YB
    YC

    YD

    YD= X1 H1D + X2 H2D + X3 H3D + X4 H4D

    System solution

    Matrix representation
    YA

    YC= X1 H1C + X2 H2C + X3 H3C + X4 H4C

    Solve for each frequency component:

    H1A H2A H3A H4A

    X1

    H1B H2B H3B H4B

    X2

    H1C H2C H3C H4C

    X3

    X1

    H1A H2A H3A H4A

    X4

    X2

    H1B H2B H3B H4B

    YB

    H1C H2C H3C H4C

    YC

    H1D H2D H3D H4D

    YD

    H1D H2D H3D H4D

    X3
    microphone
    recordings

    logsweep
    measurements

    dry sounds
    (unkowns)

    Experiments - Limitations

    X4

    -1

    YA

    Experimental Setup

    Lots of noise
    Repeated each recording 10 times

    Mic+Speaker System
    Low and high frequencies very attenuated
    Inverted response: very high gains (100dB +)
    Noise amplification
    Focused on 100 Hz to 8kHz band only

    Could only record one track at a time


    Had to improvise

    Recordings

    Results

    Used Adobe Audition to obtain


    synchronized recordings
    16 logsweeps (hij)
    16 audio clips (yij)
    yA = y1A + y2A + y3A + y4A
    yB = y1B + y2B + y3B + y4B
    yC = y1C + y2C + y3C + y4C
    yD = y1D + y2D + y3D + y4D

    Simulations showed that this can


    be improved with more accurate
    room response measurements

    Auto-correlations
    Cross-correlation between the 4 audio
    clips (maximum value)
    dry vs. dry

    dry vs. equalized

    SNR (dB)
    Eq Inv
    Ch1 9.4 12.0
    Ch2 6.4 11.2
    Ch3 -0.4 11.6
    Ch4 8.5 12.0

    dry vs. recovered

    Conclusions
    Proposed method successfully removed
    cross-talk
    Consistently better than simply equalizing
    each channel
    SNR can be improved using more
    accurate room response measurements
    Thank you!

    Cross-talk successfully removed


    Joao Carvalho 2007
    jcarvalh@usc.edu

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