Supervisor: A - School of Electronic and Communications Engineering

audio_effects_project.doc

Project Reference


AK
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2006
-
02

Supervisor: A.Kelly.

School: Electronics & Comms Eng

Office: 503

No of Students:




1 or 2.

Title:





Audio Effects System.


Technical Area:




Digital Signal Processing.

Task Predominantly Involving:


DSP, Software.

Backg
round Reading:



Audio Signal Processing,
www.dspexperts.com
, 10/3/2003. Digital Signal
Processing, A Computer Based Approach, Sanjit K. Mitra, McGraw Hill.
w
ww.harmony
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central.com/Effects


Project Synopsis:

The objective of the project is to implement an audio effects system using the
Matlab environment. Matlab is an integrated technical computing environment
that combines numeric computation, advanced graphi
cs and visualisation, and a
high level programming language. It has become a standard package being
used by a wide variety of engineers, scientists and mathematicians. The audio
effects system will provide various options including:




Load in a wav file/Plo
t/Play File, Plot spectrogram



Basic Delay, Multi
-
tap Delay, Multiple & Infinite Delays using IIR Filters



Simple Reverberation, Reverberation using the Schroeder’s System



Flanging with various depths, delays, sweep depths, LFO’s waveforms,
Chorus.



Expansi
on/Noise Gating.



Compression/Limiting.



Equalisation, Design of Shelving Filters, Graphic Equalisation.



Phase Shifting.



Ring Modulation and Frequency Inversion



The student considering this project should have an interest in programming,
algorithm develop
ment and digital signal processing.