The best way to learn is to say something confidently wrong on the Internet haha

Yeah you know what, I definitely am wrong about this, I totally thought they were using AI but that makes way more sense

I know it doesn’t need AI for older versions of feedback suppression, but there are newer systems using it that are more effective at dynamically subtracting those frequencies

Oh yeah you’re right! It’s the same for all unwanted noise. Rustling, wind, buzz, ac noise. All of it can be filtered out now! You can even take away the reverb from an untreated room and add in your own reverb. Convolution reverb is amazing, you can actually capture the reverb of any space you want and add it into your recording in post. I honestly don’t know how much an expensive treated room matters over some investment in the plugins that let you do those things.

An example for movies: instead of trying to capture the actors talking inside their helmets for Interstellar, they actually made an IR inside of the helmet itself and added that to the overdubs!

The way you create an IR (impulse response) to capture the reverb of a space is you take a speaker and play a sine wave (or a gunshot/balloon pop,) then record it with a good mic. Then just take that WAV file and put it into a convolution reverb plugin. It sounds identical, the technology is amazing! You can use this to capture all kinds of analog circuitry like guitar amps also, that’s how they make those guitar amp plugins.

An amazing use for it in audio engineering is for feedback suppression. The old way to give yourself more headroom required you to sit there and turn up the gain until feedback happens and cut that frequency. Now you just turn on the feedback suppression and it does all that for you on the fly. It’s game changing for live sound, every major venue has it now.

I use the mpk mini play and it’s super handy all the time with those onboard effects! Bring it all the time in my backpack for noodling when I know I have hours to kill. Had it for 7 years and no issues at all. Although I will say the new mpk minis went through a massive upgrade, worth splurging for.

My field recorder! Chilling after band practice right now, and being able to clearly listen back to my jams has been invaluable in progressing my musicianship.