Vinyl record playback noise from physical simulations.

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Features

• Hiss and popping noise due to dust and damage
• High frequency roll-off due to stylus size
• Wow and flutter low frequency distortion
• Distortion at high amplitudes from cartridge non-linearity
• RIAA playback equalisation

Examples

noise-only.mp4

noise-with-audio.mp4

Installation

Install from PyPI

pip install tonearm

or install from the Github repository

git clone git@github.com:dpohanlon/ToneArm.git
cd ToneArm
pip install .

Usage

To add noise and distortion to a .wav file

tonearm --input filename.wav --name output

or to generate a sample of just the noise, call with no file name and the length of the sample to generate

tonearm --name noise --length 10