Izotope RX

BradLyons · Post by **BradLyons** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:32 am

Anyone here using Izotope RX Noise Reduction program? I have to admit that up until now, I've not really checked it out.....WOW This has got to be one of the coolest and most powerful noise reduction tools I've seen, yet one of the most affordable! I'm sitting here in a meeting checking it out and I really am floored. Just curious as to how many here are using it...

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:38 am

The two main barriers to selling my PoCo card, Brad, were:
DP's reverbs wouldn't replace ClassicVerb, and I'd have to buy a dedicated app or plug for noise reduction.

Well, the Mac upgrade in progress forced the issue, and PoCo's dead.
I'm really keen to hear what you and other 'Cornies think of this app.
It's not a plug, but an app, correct?

When you say "cheap", whaddaya mean?
Cheap as chips?

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:20 am

Yeah, Brad, I'm using it. When it first came out iZotope sent out an email promo to it's customers and I took them up on it. I forget what I paid at the time, but the promo offer was pretty good. I've used it to convert some of my old vinyl to CDs. The scratch removal works great. I also used it on a video project that my son was having trouble with. He was doing the video editing on this piece which had a lot of background noise from an air conditioner. Wow, the final product came out fantastic.

Hey, I wonder if it can remove tambourine??

Phil

daniel.sneed · Post by **daniel.sneed** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:23 am

Very deep software. Good bang for the bucks. Specially that first offer I jumped in.

BradLyons · Post by **BradLyons** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:54 am

FUNNY about that tambourine comment! YOU JERK! ha!

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:31 pm

I think this was originally talked about on the main DP forum back in October or so, but it might have been in one of the other sub-forums. Several of us took advantage of the short-term discounted initial offering for owners of Ozone. I too do not remember that price -- $149?

I have not had time to return to RX recently, as my main focus the past few weeks was on consolidating my preferred sound sources from a rapidly ramped-up software sample library collection during the holiday sale.

My initial take was that it is far more powerful and more transparent than WaveArts (which nevertheless has a nice interface and with some effort might produce even better results under certain circumstances, based on the Sound-On-Sound review last month).

I don't recall whether any of us have done a head-to-head with PoCo yet. I remember finding this difficult with the demo of RX at least, as I couldn't directly compare different stages of noise reduction in BIAS Peak Pro (where I typically do my stereo editing and restoration work).

The final result of several stages of NR was clearly way better in RX than in PoCo, at least at my relatively inexperienced hands. The main reasons are that RX had more transparent results on broadband removal at SIMILAR levels (though PoCo wins in cases where minimal broadband removal is needed), and did an absolutely mind-blowing job of removing weird asymmetrical transient events and seamlessly replacing them with musical content that stitches the resulting gap.

In fact, for me the price of admission was worth it even if just for the transient removal and also the excellent De-Hum features (which PoCo doesn't do, and for which otherwise I would have had to buy Roger Nichols stuff or WaveArts MR-Hum to handle properly).

The fully-pro version (which is more price-comparable to the full PoCo suite, of which only DeNoise comes for free with the PoCo cards), is now out, and you can momentarily de-authorise your registered version of RX and install the full Pro edition in demo mode to try out before deciding whether to do the upgrade. I didn't check the upgrade pricing and haven't tried the demo yet as it has a very limited time-based usage so I want to wait until I am at least 90% focused on restoration experiments.

wvandyck · Post by **wvandyck** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:58 pm

I took advantage of the promotional pricing as mhschmieder already mentioned.

Recently used it to restore a couple pieces of vinyl. I cheated a bit by using SoundTrack Pro's pencil tool to take care of the worst pops. Then used RX Declicker to take care of the smaller clicks and crackle. I'll put Declicker to the test of removing pops on the next vinyl project.

Other uses include eliminating hiss from 4 track cassette masterpieces, and various "historic" family recordings.

No pun intended, but I've only scratched the surface of this program.

I'm very pleased with it.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:23 am

Hmm... looks like you've made a good call, Brad.

May I ask yet again, is it cheap as chips?

BradLyons · Post by **BradLyons** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:59 am

Yeah, it's cheap alright.... $249 US. It's WAY underpriced..... I don't like that! LOL I'm putting in an order soon, what sold me was the removing of clipping and the spectral noise removal.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:03 am

Ripper - at last! Thank you, Brad.

So it is cheap as chips, if you're talking about a truck full of 'em!

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:58 am

BradLyons wrote:FUNNY about that tambourine comment! YOU JERK! ha!

Hey, I was only half kidding. It might be worth a try. Can't make it worse, right?

Phil

Buckage · Post by **Buckage** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:09 pm

I got it and it's done some really effective things. Not only removing unwanted room noise or ticks but the spectral repair is really fun to use. Creates neat drones from any source.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:23 pm

Phil O wrote:
BradLyons wrote:FUNNY about that tambourine comment! YOU JERK! ha!
Hey, I was only half kidding. It might be worth a try. Can't make it worse, right?

Phil

I seem to recall someone - I think it was Kubi - mentioning this software tool in Brad's original post about the great recording marred by the errant tambourine flagellated by an overzealous parishoner. Hey Brad! Try it!

BradLyons · Post by **BradLyons** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:10 pm

I was just posing fun at good ole Phil

I do want to try that.

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:33 am

...yeah, even if you can't eliminate it. If you can just reduce it a few dB it might be helpful. My guess is that if you go too far with it you may degrade the recording, but just a little reduction of the offending ching might make for a better performance. Worth a try?

Phil

Good ole Phil, huh? Yeaaaah, we'll talk.