It's a truly superb tool that creates miracles.

It also has an up-to-date user interface that makes it easier to work with than many other tools.

It's pure VooDoo-like magic.

iZotope RX fixes problems that were totally unfixable before. We use to say, "You can't take the eggs back out of a cake"... but apparently, with iZotope RX you can! You will be amazed at what it can do.

~jr

What about ozone. I would suspect after fixing in Rx, one would use Ozone. Am I correct.

I use Ozone 3 on almost all of my projects. It's a great mastering tool for adding that final sheen to your audio. You can also use it on individual tracks to punch things up. The interface is also extremely powerful the way you can adjust the level and width of the EQ bands etc. and see the wave form as you adjust. It's another great tool to have in the kit.

~jr

iZotope is pure magic. I can recommend it without hesitation.

If your goal is restoration or getting rid of problems, it is without peer. If you have other goals, then you'll need other tools. However, it gets rid of noise, random glitches, hum, clicks, pops, and similar problems better than anything I have ever used.

Play the demo files on their site. Some of what they demonstrate seems impossible, but I can guarantee that it is for real.

I wouldn't be without either iZotope RX or Ozone.

I'm currently working on a doco and removing individual bird chirps out of the background sound of an interview.

The Spectral Repair tool in RX does it without any obvious artifacts from behind the dialogue. I don't know of any software that I could do that with as easily or successfully and that's just one instance of its use.

Fantasic software!!!

New Hope Media

You should check out Ozone 4. Unbelievably cool software - totally different milieu than Rx, and superb in its own right.

So where did you get your hands on Ozone 4, I don't see it as being available yet on the iZotope website?

So where did you get your hands on Ozone 4, I don't see it as being available ye on the iZotope website?Yeah, agreed, but if you look here: http://www.dv247.com/invt/28469/ - you WILL see that there is this offer : Oz3 > Oz4 : when it is released. That's a hint?

Grazie

Actually the iZotope website has details of upgrade pricing to Ozone 4 for owners, like me, of Ozone 3 at $79US.
It's just that, as of yesterday, it still wasn't available for purchase even though iZotope has indicated a January release... but hey there's still a day left in the month;-]

Seriously though, we all know how software release dates often don't happen to advertised schedule.

New Hope Media

JohnMeyer:
> If your goal is restoration or getting rid of problems, it is without peer
Ahem.. until you have tried Voxengo Redunoise :-)

I have restored a lot of old reel sound tape, and own both tools, izotope and Voxengo. And with both of them in your toolbox, the impossible takes seconds, miracles just a few minutes :-)

ingvarai

Ahem.. until you have tried Voxengo Redunoise :-)

Looks interesting... a shame it is only Windows based as all of the audio plug-ins I rely on are cross platform. I use ProTools for a lot of my professional audio post production, due mostly to the well known omissions in Vegas, BWF and OMF to name the most obvious, I prefer to run PT under MacOSX as I get video out firewire meaning I can view the images on an external TV monitor instead of the overlaid on my computer screen.

Yes Vegas does all the video out stuff but unfortunately the downsides to integrating with other users has turned me back to PT even though I won an audio award for 30 minute short feature I mixed in 5.1 using Vegas.

So I have Waves Z-Noise, iZotope RX and Digidesign DINR (ProTools ONLY but cross platform) as my noise/restoration/save me from lousy sound recording collection.

http://www.newhopemedia.com.auNew Hope Media[/link]

Ahem.. until you have tried Voxengo Redunoise :-)Do you know of any site that has some before/after audio?

I guess I could download the demo and play around with it, but I don't have the time right now. I've done a LOT of NR with the SoundForge and iZotope broadband noise reduction, and I'd certainly welcome a better tool for that. Of course it is a next to impossible problem, but that's what I said about removing coughs and thuds from sound files prior to learning about iZotop RX ...

Izotope 4 is on their web site as of 7PM Chicago time. Looks like a nice weekend project.

Larry

Larry? That'll be Ozone4 - yeah?

Grazie

johnmeyer
>Do you know of any site that has some before/after audio?

Well, Voxengo itself had, but I can't find it anymore.
Download the demo and try. With your apparent knowledge in this field, you will be up and running in minutes.

I used Voxengo a lot, then acquired iZotope and thought it was better, only to find out that is is better in certain cases, but not beating Voxengo on other jobs. I even successfully nested two Voxengo Redunoise. I use Sony Sound Forge as well.

Voxengo can be tweaked a lot. And is has the Residue function, you can listen to the sound that is removed, which is very interesting. This way you can for example adjust th esettings so that no human voice is removed, and as much noise as possible is removed.

How much I like and am impressed by iZotope, I still reach out for the Redunoise FX whenever I must remove background noise. For filtering out the PC fan, ceiling fan, and any other light background noise, it is a killer - no artifacts introduced. I always use Voxengo when recording comments (narrating) my videos or sound projects.

Apart from actually "seeing" what you are removing in IzoRX, yes "seeing" sound, you can isolate and hear it too. Marvellous!

Grazie