DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16186381
title: ReverbFX: A Dataset of Room Impulse Responses Derived from Reverb Effect Plugins for Singing Voice Dereverberation

description: Description:  ReverbFX is a dataset of 1,846 room impulse responses (RIRs) designed to advance research in singing voice dereverberation, with a special focus on artificial reverberation used in music production. Unlike conventional RIR datasets recorded in real acoustic spaces or simulated via physical models, ReverbFX is derived exclusively from a diverse collection of professional reverb audio effect plugins, including Protoverb, SkyNet, TAL-Reverb-4, and Valhalla Supermassive.

Each RIR was generated by processing Dirac impulses through these plugins with factory and custom presets (randomized for further diversity). The resulting RIRs cover a wide range of decay times (RT60 spanning 0.31 to 52.08 seconds) and reverberation characteristics, capturing the creative breadth of artificial reverbs encountered in contemporary music production.

A stringent validation protocol was applied to ensure data quality, checking for numerical integrity, DC offset, signal energy, plausible RT60 range, envelope decay, and early energy concentration.

Key Features:  - 1,846 plugin-derived RIRs  - Four widely used reverb plugins (see paper for details)  - Wide range of reverberation times and characteristics  - Fully open metadata and link to corresponding plugin settings  - All audio files share the same specifications:    - Duration: 00:10 (10 seconds)    - Audio channels: Stereo    - Sample rate: 48 kHz    - Bits per sample: 32-bit float  - Designed for benchmarking and developing dereverberation and audio enhancement models for creative scenarios

Data Structure:The dataset is organized as follows:ReverbFX├── LICENCE.txt├── meta│   ├── test.csv│   ├── train.csv│   └── valid.csv├── test│   ├── Protoverb_100_03.wav│   ├── Protoverb_105_00.wav│       ... │   └── Valhalla_WideVocalSwell_10.wav├── train│   ├── Protoverb_100_01.wav│   ├── Protoverb_100_02.wav│       ...│   └── Valhalla_WideVocalSwell_14.wav└── valid    ├── Protoverb_103_01.wav    ├── Protoverb_106_04.wav        ...    └── Valhalla_WideVocalSwell_04.wav

- LICENCE.txt: License information- meta/: Metadata and split definitions (CSV files for train/valid/test)- train/, valid/, test/: Folders containing RIRs (WAV files), named by plugin and preset    - All WAV files: 10 seconds stereo, 48 kHz sample rate, 32-bit float

Use Cases:  - Training and evaluation of machine learning models for dereverberation- Benchmarking source separation and audio enhancement technologies in artificial reverb scenarios- Research in music information retrieval and creative audio processing

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).  Non-commercial research and educational use only. For details, see LICENCE.txt.

Attribution:  Please cite the original paper in any derivative works or publications:

Julius Richter, Till Svajda, Timo Gerkmann, "ReverbFX: A Dataset of Room Impulse Responses Derived from Reverb Effect Plugins for Singing Voice Dereverberation," ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2025.

Please acknowledge the original plugin developers.

Contact:  For questions or collaboration inquiries, contact {julius.richter,timo.gerkmann}@uni-hamburg.de.

Link:  Project website: https://sp-uhh.github.io/reverbfx