No that long along audio restoration plug-ins were once the figment of many an audio engineer’s imagination. These days we’re quite spoilt for choice if we find ourselves in desperate need of a plug-in or two to remove hiss, crackle and pop from poorly recorded audio. Not only do we have a lot of choice available to us these days we also have quality and easy of use. Pretty much all the top plug-ins in this category are super easy to use with many designed to produce jaw dropping results with nearly no draw backs in terms of artefacts.
In this roundup we’ve collated all our reviews, tests and free tutorial of audio restoration plug-ins that you can use to compare the differences between all the tools on the market today. There are some previous versions of certain audio restoration products in the list below, we’ve kept these in to demonstrate how far this technology has come of late.
Along with music production and audio post for picture, podcast audio production is the ever-growing third facet of what engineers do. We get Acoustica on podcast duties to see if its quality processing in a simple package can deliver.
With A.I and machine learning bringing about considerable advancements in the effectiveness of what can be achieved, now seems like a great time to conduct a shootout of some of the current dialogue noise reduction tools. Here we pit plugins from six brands against each other - take a listen and place your votes…
The Supertone Goyo team has emailed all their beta testers with details of the release version called Supertone Clear Voice Separator, which will be available to purchase from 30th October 2023. We have the details.
Whether you’re planning the first trip of the Spring or getting ready to carve a pumpkin or two, September saw a bumper crop of audio innovation as well as some familiar tools getting a makeover. Here are our favourites…
In the last 2 years, the audio restoration market has changed significantly. In this article, we highlight a selection of audio restoration software packages, some stand-alone, some plug-ins and some that offer both options that we think you should try out.
Ian Sampson, the developer of the AI audio cleaner app Hush, has announced the release of Hush Pro, an AudioSuite plugin that removes ambient noise and room reflections from recorded speech. We have the details…
CEDAR Audio announced their new CEDAR VoicEX plug-in for VST, AU and AAX platforms. VoicEX has just two knobs - one to determine the loudness of the background and the other to control the loudness of the speech. We have the details.
In this video Paul Maunder checks out dxRevive, Accentize’s AI dialogue restoration plugin which can restore flawed dialogue back to studio quality with a single control.
Accentize, the developers of Chameleon, VoiceGate and other audio processing tools, have released dxRevive - a noise reduction plugin that also incorporates AI technology to cleverly restore clarity and tone to the original audio. We have the details…
We’ve recently been exploring DaVinci Resolve as an alternative video editor with audio support. We take a look at one feature Voice Isolation, included with the paid version. We put it to the test to see how it stacks up against an industry leader in realtime dialogue cleaning.
Adobe has been working quietly on a suite of tools to help podcasts. Firstly under the banner Project Shasta, before rebranding it at the end of 2022 into Adobe Podcast. But is it any good? Is it better than Descript? We investigate.
The range of restoration and clean-up software available to today’s producer/engineer makes for a relatively straightforward shortlist. Here’s five of what we consider to be the very best options for getting rid of noise and ironing out spectral kinks in your musical and other recorded material.
The Experts team wondered what we thought people would want to find behind the windows of a dream studio advent calendar. Mike’s choice is iZotope RX Advanced.
With the recent emergence of a number of audio separation tools, one of the latest lays claim to the next hurdle to be cleared - audio stem separation from video. With various uses abound, we try it. See and hear it in action for yourself.
While music mastering duties are entirely doable in the mix engineer’s DAW, mastering engineers frequently opt for a dedicated platform. We use one solution that hopes to expand its reach beyond its own post-production instincts.
In Mike’s in-depth first review covering the new features in iZotope RX 10 and RX 10 Advanced, he showed the improved Spectral Recovery module. In this article, iZotope’s Nick Messitte shows how you can use iZotope RX 10 to clean up a phone or Audio over IP recording…
iZotope has released the latest version of their iconic audio restoration software RX 10. In this article, we have all the details of what is new, an exclusive extended first-look video, and we tell you what we think of RX 10 and RX 10 Advanced from iZotope.
We recently ran a shootout comparing four premium noise reduction tools and asked the Production Expert community to blind listen to each piece of processed audio and vote on which they thought sounded the best. The results are in…
Following on from our recent low cost noise reduction tools shootout, Paul Maunder takes four of the more premium solutions and pits them against each other in a comparison test - which do you think performs the best?
Paul Maunder has used iZotope RX for many years in his post production work. In this article, he uses Acon Digital’s Acoustica audio editor for the first time to see how it compares…
iZotope have released RX6 Standard and RX6 Advanced and also added a new product, RX Elements which replaces the RX Plugin Pack and includes the RX 6 Standalone Editor application as well as the plug-ins that were in the RX Plugin Pack. New modules in RX6 include De-rustle, De-wind, Dialogue Isolate, and De-bleed.
In this Pro Tools Expert review, Dan Cooper takes a look at a new one knob dereverberation plug-in called ERA-R by Accusonus.
Todd-AO have released Absentia DX with an algorithm that is designed to analyze production dialog recordings and then remove obvious hums, wireless rings, and ticks, while maintaining the integrity of the human voice. Absentia DX is a completely different take on cleaning up audio. In this review Mike takes it for a test drive. Watch to see how he got on with it.
In this video review, Production Expert team member Dan Cooper takes a look at ERA-N, a new straight forward one knob noise suppression/denoiser plug-in by Accusonus.
Watch the video to hear how ERA-N handles denoising tasks across 4 very different audio examples.
ADX SVC allows independent volume level control over both speech and background elements within a mono or stereo audio file. ADX can simply lower the volume of any background noise within noisy audio or it can easily boost dialogue levels.
In this world exclusive review ahead of its release. Mr RX It, Mike Thornton, shows the key new features being introduced into iZotope's RX5 & RX5 Advanced, like De-plosive, an Ambience Match AudioSuite plug-in and an Instant Process Tool.
Mr "RX It" otherwise known as Mike Thornton takes a tour round all the key new features in iZotope RX4 and RX4 Advanced.
Mike takes a look at the new version of Acon Digital's Restoration Suite and likes what he finds.
Mike presents a show & tell review of the Cedar Studio bundle of Pro Tools plug-ins and covers the DNS One, DeBuzz, DeClip and Adaptive Limiter 2 plug-ins.