Dr Matthew Cheshire

Lecturer in Audio Engineering

Email:: Matthew.Cheshire@bcu.ac.uk

Dr. Matthew Cheshire is a Lecturer in Audio Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Birmingham City University (BCU), UK, where he leads modules in Audio Embedded Systems, Music Information Retrieval, and Live Sound Reinforcement. He received a BSc (Hons) in Sound Engineering and Production from BCU in 2013 and a PhD from the same institution in 2023. His doctorate investigated timbral analysis and recording parameter transformations of snare drums. His research interests include microphone comparison, drum recording, perceptual evaluation, and signal processing for recording applications. He has authored numerous papers presented at AES conventions and published in the Journal of the AES. He is the recipient of the AES Saul Walker Award (2019) and AES Educational Foundation John Eargle Award (2020 and 2021).

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Perceptual Evaluation of Varied Kick Drum Microphones, With and Without Post Processing, Cheshire, M.. In Proceedings of the 159th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2025

Kick Drum Microphone Taxonomy: Timbral Clustering of Controlled Kick-Out Recordings, Cheshire, M.. In Proceedings of the 159th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2025

Evaluating Microphone Choice and Placement for Tom Drum Recording: A Perceptual Study, Cheshire, M., et al. In Proceedings of the 159th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2025

Investigating Phrase and Vocalist Dependent Microphone Preferences for Male Hip-Hop Vocal Recording, Cheshire, M., et al. In Proceedings of the 159th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2025

Automatic Corrective EQ for Measurement Microphone Emulation. Cheshire, M., et al. In Proceedings of the 157th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2024

Microphone Comparison for Female R&B Vocal Recording - (Honourable mention in the Best Papers Competition - 3rd highest overall peer-reviewed paper), Cheshire, M., et al. In Proceedings of the 155th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2023

Deep Audio FX for Snare Drum Recording Transformations, Cheshire, M., et al. The Journal of Audio Engineering Society - Special Issue on New Trends in Audio Effects. 2022

Snare Drum Data Set (SDDS): More Snare Drums than you can Shake a Stick At. Cheshire, M. In Proceedings of the 149th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2020

Investigating Timbral Differences of Varied Velocity Snare Drum Strikes, Cheshire, M. et al. In Proceedings of the 148th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2020

Microphone Comparison: Spectral Feature Mapping for Snare Drum Recording. Cheshire, M. et al. In Proceedings of the 147th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2019

A Robotic Drum Arm for Consistent Strike Velocity During Timbral Comparison Studies, Cheshire, M. Presented at the 147th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2019

Microphone Comparison for Snare Drum Recording, Cheshire, M., et al. In Proceedings of the 145th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. 2018