Hush Audio App - room remover

I was thinking about buying it, but I don't work with spoken word projects as much as singers. The dev said he was still working the code to handle singing better.

Windows version?

In all seriousness Mark I see this as a decent tool in the world of “ we are broke” post.

Yeah Cedar is the one they all want to be or beat, but Cedar has never let them quite catch up.

Finally had a chance to use it this afternoon. It was on a well-recorded interview, without any huge glaring issues like loud fans or street noise. Still, there was some short room echo (small-ish office type room with full carpet and bookshelf on one wall) and typical "field recording in a personal residence" type of background noise. Honestly, the kind of situation where I would try iZotope RX and fiddle around, and end up getting frustrated that I was hearing the RX algorithm too much, and would debate myself as to whether it was actually worth it to even RX the audio at all. Now, I haven't played that RX-ify game in the last several months because Final Cut introduced a fantastic noise suppression algorithm that in many cases surpasses RX to my ear. Still, I wanted to give Hush a try...

...and first word is "wow." This thing is really something. I am very, very, very impressed with the sound. The workflow isn't great - there's no realtime option or even a way to hear what it's doing until it's finished. This was 1.5hr long interview, so it took quite awhile to render. I also don't know if it respects timecode or not - this footage wasn't using timecode. But even with the mix level on 100% (that is, full algorithm sound with no original mixed in), it sounds spectacular on this footage. I won't use it at 100% because it just sounds artificially quiet in the background between the talent's sentences to me, but I'm not hearing immediate ridiculous artifacts like I do with RX on 100%. It doesn't sound like the audio was converted to a 96kbps mp3 or something, which is how I sometimes feel with RX.

I also tried it at 65% mix and 80% mix levels, and it sounds absolutely great there. I am seriously impressed with this tool under the conditions I tested it this afternoon. I'll have to try some more complicated scenarios with noisier backgrounds soon to see how it holds up under those conditions.

I also hope he makes plugin versions with realtime usage or at least a quick sample of the output audio before committing.

Yep, I've got the full Acon suite, too, and I like it. I find it's sometimes better than RX, sometimes not. Maybe like 50/50. But at least at this early stage--and again, I've only tried it on one (very long) spoken word interview--Hush is absolutely on a different level. Like, it's not even the same thing. Maybe it won't work this well in other scenarios, who knows. It's not designed for music (at least not yet), so perhaps of limited use to most folks here, but for spoken word stuff--my goodness. I haven't heard anything like this before.

Nice to hear reports of transparent end results.
I'll definitely get this for the toolbox.
RX mucks up the sound too much - almost unusable for me. I'd rather use a series of gates and EQ.