Enhancing low-fi audio (tricks?)

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jh90s
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Enhancing low-fi audio (tricks?)

Post by jh90s » Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:58 am

Would it be possible to somehow "fake" the high-end on a low quality recording (either downsampled from 44100 or just a low quality live concert recording in my case)? I know neural networks are being used for enhancing pixelated pictures; could the same thing be done for audio? Have it make educated guesses as to what the high-end sounded like, or are there tricks which can be done which will "fake" the high-end? An example of the quality I'm talking about is here: Listen to a few seconds of it and you'll hear it's very low in quality (both audio and video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYjmlg-NtI
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Trebor
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Re: Enhancing low-fi audio (tricks?)

Post by Trebor » Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:24 am

jh90s wrote:Would it be possible to somehow "fake" the high-end on a low quality recording ... Have it make educated guesses as to what the high-end sounded like
Vocal exciters, (a/k/a "Aural Exciter"), can add high missing high-frequencies, but they are only usable on clean, (not crackly), recordings of the voice /instrument in-isolation.

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