Post by viciousbliss on Nov 14, 2018 20:26:39 GMT -6
Recently I noticed crackles from the XLR cable coming losing while handling the SM7 becoming more noticeable, so I was looking for a solution aside from re-recording. First I tried the Izotope RX options, the Acon, and the Waves plugins. Nothing really did it for me. Then I remembered I could try the Sonnox stuff. These were much better for my use. I could cut the pop and crackle down a lot, maybe 90%, and the Sonnox declicker left the rest pretty much untouched. Acon seemed to overly smooth things. For such expensive software, I was disappointed in the lack of options and latency on the RX 7 stuff. Maybe these simple tasks aren't its strengths? Sticking the Sonnox Denoiser across music-based busses was great. Setting the hiss and detect to around -3.40 each while turning mid-side on took out a lot of the junk I don't like about digital and made my vocal tracks sound much more pristine and audible. I found that I liked leaving the other settings at default mostly. If there's no noticeable clicks or pops or crackles, I can stick Declicker on my vocal tracks, set everything to around 85-90% and sometimes mess with the dialogue gate. Listening to the diff buttons on these, all that's being taken out is crackley junk, I rarely hear any actual good audio being taken out. The Denoiser also did a pretty good job reducing excessive hiss and leaving just enough. Judging by what the results were here, I'm guessing noise reduction stuff was used a bit in the pre-DAW days.
Anyone try these on vinyl clean up? I was looking at getting some vinyl stuff and having a studio do the transfer but do any clean up myself.
The Cedar stuff is still prohibitively expensive I'm assuming. I've got to try the Debuzzer on this bedroom recording I was sent some time ago that has some big buzz or pop when the guitarist finishes his distorted part. CLAGuitars amping the DI signal ended up sounding way better than his amp. This bundle is $223 at everyplugin now, most of the info on it is old. Looks like this bundle was $2000 in 2010 and has had some updates since then.
Anyone try these on vinyl clean up? I was looking at getting some vinyl stuff and having a studio do the transfer but do any clean up myself.
The Cedar stuff is still prohibitively expensive I'm assuming. I've got to try the Debuzzer on this bedroom recording I was sent some time ago that has some big buzz or pop when the guitarist finishes his distorted part. CLAGuitars amping the DI signal ended up sounding way better than his amp. This bundle is $223 at everyplugin now, most of the info on it is old. Looks like this bundle was $2000 in 2010 and has had some updates since then.