[Audioarchivist]

Originally Posted by WilliamFruntz

I have trained an AI model to remove whistles.

I know it's a Freezer joke, but it is pretty easy to do some spectral editing with iZotope RX to manually get rid of lots of unwanted noises without really cutting into the music coming from the stage. It would be nice eventually for some kind of A.I. concert recording cleaner but I really don't think it's up to the level of accuracy I'd like to hear from it. It's a much slower process to manually do all that photoshop for sound spectral editing but the results can be quite an improvement, and very satisfying knowing that humans were involved in the process and not A.i.!!! haha

The key is having consent. If I posted something with some obvious flaws that someone else was able to fix, I would be alright with that, but I would want to be asked before that random fixed version was dumped into the trade pool. Depending what the bedroom remasterer is doing, it can be quite useless, as in Dennis' case of "...I compressed the crap out of it to fix it for you...", and if asked would have been told so, I'm sure. There are some cases though, where some serious fixing and remixing would truly help, but again, asking the taper or original sharer is paramount. Email someone, send a PM - something! Reach out if you're going to do this stuff, people! It could be a welcomed thing if you're doing something worthwhile (speed correction, clap whistle and talker removal, stem extraction remixing, etc...) but without express confirmation of authorization, your work shouldn't be posted...

Having said all that, imagine, one day, an A.I. bootleg fix-up tool that would clean up all the screamers and talkers near the taper, extract the room reverb echo of a bad taping seat in the arena, and virtually move the mics into the sweet spot of the room to take all those fair to poor audience tapes and make them all sound like they were professionally recorded from the board. There will be a revolution in audience tapes in time, I am sure... Fingers crossed!
But not yet.