Overview
This is the project for the paper I worked on with Ryota Sato and submitted to DAFx26. Ryota is a model training and pruning unicorn and pruned a wavenet guitar amplifier model such that 90% of the AI computations are reduced and the neural guitar amp sounds basically identical.
We presented at DAFx26 and showed in a demo how the amp sounds the same as real guitar pedals while being very compute light. Made a custom audio USB dongle for our demo too.
PAPER — WaveNet-Style Guitar Amplifier Model Pruning for Real-Time iOS Deployment, Ryota Sato & Eli Silverstein, arXiv 2607.10086 · accepted as a DAFx 2026 demo.
