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.
Dialogue Restoration Listening Test - Noise Reduction
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…
Goyo Becomes Supertone Clear Voice Separator - Release Date Announced
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.
Audio Production Things We Loved In September 2023
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…
Audio Restoration Software in 2023 - Is RX Still King?
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.
Hush Pro AI-Powered Dialogue Repair AAX Plugin Released
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 Announce VoicEX At IBC 2023
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.
Accentize dxRevive Tested - Perhaps The Only Dialogue Cleaner You'll Need
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 dxRevive Dialogue Noise Reduction Plugin Released
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…
DaVinci Resolve Voice Isolation Tested
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 Podcast Enhance - Is It Any Good?
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.
Five Mix-Saving Audio Restoration Plugin Bundles To Check Out In 2022
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.
Experts Dream Studio Gear Advent Calendar - Day 7 iZotope RX Advanced
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.
Stem Separation From Video Is Here - We Try It
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.
Using Acon Digital Acoustica For Music Mastering
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.
Got A Phone or Zoom Recording That Needs Cleaning Up? We Show You How
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 RX 10 - In Depth First Review
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.
Premium Noise Reduction Shootout - The Results
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…
Premium Noise Reduction Tools Shoot Out
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?
iZotope RX User Tries Acon Digital Acoustica
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…