carlsaff wrote on Mon, 16 July 2007 14:42 |
Steve --
Have you experimented with Voxengo's Redunoise? I have rediscovered it. It's very deep, very complicated, and VERY CPU intensive. But it can sound very nice. It offers frequency-selective reduction, which I find powerful -- almost like EQ-ing out the noise, if you will, rather than applying a broadband filter or noise profile. Since I often do noise reduction as an offline process before loading the files into my editor for processing, the CPU issue isn't much of one for me.
Worth checking out. The price is quite nice, too. I like it better than Acon's NR (though I love that Acon Declipper).
Carl
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Hey Carl -
I demoed Redunoise about a year ago and could never really get around it's gui and fairly (to me) unintuitive parameter controls to get any results that were even remotely satisfying dialed in on the material I was working with.
This is similar experience of mine to many Voxengo plugins - where while I find the DSP coding and algorithms generally excellent, often the gui and to me an unnecessary complexity of the interface(i.e. where one esoteric parameter control effects the results of another in unpredictable and generally not straightforward ways) makes them not as appealing to me, especially in terms of a work flow aspect. I really like the Elephant though!
fwiw - For dealing with about a year ago on a very demanding job where I had to unbury an interview out of a huge amount of background noise (which is when I demoed out Redunoise) DiamondCut's Live6/Forensics was the only thing I tried that was really up to the task.
As far as other cheap broadband NR solutions - I've gotten surprising mileage out of the Virtos Audio DeNoiser also -
http://www.virtos-audio.com As far as DeClicker's, besides the Acon Digital one, the one in Sony NR 2.0 has worked very well for me - but when declicking I nearly always isolate the problem areas and only process these areas instead of processing the entire file.
As note before I've been fairly unimpressed with Waves X-Noise in all my demos of it - the current solutions I own that are all less expensive operate just as well or better in all my tests.
I'm in the same boat as Jerry in that while I really would like to demo the Waves Z-Noise out I find the hoops you need to jump through in order to demo it is just not worth the hassle (also considering I really don't want to give them any more dollars due to what I think is there ridiculous "WUP" policy).
Maybe if I get more restoration work sent to me I'll look into the Algorythmix stuff - just at this point I can't justify a large investment into it. Perhaps it's worth looking at Redunoise again at some point in the future also - but I definitely didn't find it to be "user friendly" in my initial trial at all. I do know that Pieter Stenekes at Sonoris was looking into development of a SAWStudio native NR plugin - and based on the excellence of all of his plugins I'd say it most likely will be well worth waiting for.
Best regards,
Steve Berson