IZotope RX 4 is here and iZotope guru Mike Thornton (Mr RX It) delivers everything you need to know to jump into RX 4 and harness its full potential! Get detailed information using real-world examples and clean up your recordings making them sound better than ever. No matter what DAW you use, iZotope RX 4 Explained provides expert knowledge that allows you to reduce unwanted noise. IZotope RX 2 is hands down one of the best and most complete audio repair toolkits on the market, enabling you to remove noise, hiss, buzz and hum, eliminate clicks and crackle, restore clipped audio, visually select and suppress unwanted sounds, resynthesize missing audio and much more.
'It’s very intuitive as to how you use it and how to quickly get the results you need. Of course it takes some work to really hone in, which comes with experience, but the RX package quickly gets you through a lot of the painstaking work, allowing more time to get to the nitty-gritty.'
Noise Training
Boudreau starts with a quick clean up using Hum Removal, and then moves on to RX’s Denoiser. 'The training feature in the Denoiser is amazing. You feed it a file. It analyzes the audio and then allows you to selectively remove just the noise, leaving everything else amazingly intact.'
RX’s Hum Removal Module, shown above, helps Boudreau remove low frequency obstructions like trucks sitting at a stop light.
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'The hardest part of these particular recordings was a car radio, parked near the conversation. Booming Hip Hop, blasting from a nearby car, was really obscuring everything. Rolling off the low end helped of course, but it also revealed how distorted the voices of the conversation had become with the overload. Adding to that, the conversation was competing in the same frequency range as the spoken vocals from the music.'