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Zola wrote:i get carried away sometimes. Just had to share a little trick i figured out. I do this with wavearts MR but you can do it with anytning. In case you can't get the kind of attack or release you need for a particular sound (in my case, every actors breath before and after the sentence) just put your noise removal plug post fader (underneath the little dot in the inserts) and ride your level.

Sometimes just a feew dbs is what will make the sound go over or under the threshold and keep the chirping for appearing. Sorry if this sounds obvious. It just made my day! Cheers zola Posts like this are what make this forum so valuable.

Agreed, Flash. Besides, the day one tires of hearing/being reminded of the basics, marks the beginning of a new level of ignorance. Well, as I mentioned in the dedicated thread for WaveArts Restoration Bundle, I did a shootout last night between it, SoundSoap 2, and SoundSoap Pro, after BIAS was kind enough to provide me with a demo copy of the latter (just in time for making a decision about the Peak Pro XT upgrade offer that expires tomorrow night). I find SoundSoap Pro the most transparent of the three, but obviously more difficult to use than SoundSoap 2, and also more difficult to understand without the manual than the WaveArts bundle. Yet I was more successful and able to work faster in SoundSoap Pro than WaveArts. So this confirms my decision not to further consider the WaveArts bundle; though it would be an excellent purchase for someone who is not already partially invested in the BIAS and/or TC Powercore suites. As for SoundSoap Pro, I have also decided not to buy it, as I despise the interface and as I could not get artefact-free results after even an hour or so of working with a very short two-minute snippet.

At AES, New York, BIAS (Berkley Integrated Audio Software) today debuted PitchCraft EZ — a powerful alternative to the popular pitch correction and special effects tool popularized by many of today's leading musical artists. As a plug-in for popular audio host applications on Mac and Windows computing platforms, PitchCraft EZ is both easy to use and highly effective.

My TC Powercore will not arrive in time for the 31 May deadline on the BIAS Peak Pro XT upgrade offer, so I have decided not to do it, as I suspect I will find TC's DeNoise, on its own or in conjunction with SoundSoap 2, to be the best option while the Sony suite is in limbo. Posts: 10600 Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:01 pm Location: San Francisco Bay Area Primary DAW OS: MacOS. I felt it more appropriate to bump this general discussion that to reply to the vinyl-specific topic that flashgerkin started later. I hope no one minds. I spent a few hours tonight doing an intense shootout between Soundsoap 2, Soundsoap Pro (via my saved bounce from when I had a two week working demo), and Powercore's Restoration Suite.

I had already dismissed the Wave Arts suite earlier, as having a marvelous interface but exhibiting some unfortunate artefacts that I just couldn't seem to get rid of, along with some digital harshness that I couldn't tame (for what it's worth, neither did I feel that flashgerkin's experiments removed these concerns, even though he is far more experienced than I am). The Sony Oxford restoration suite held the most interest for me, but is no longer available. Other solutions remain expensive and/or standalone with hardware support. So I was quite pleased tonight when Powercore's Restoration Suite delivered the goods. No artefacts whatsoever, complete transparency, and a retention of all of the warmth of the original recordings, which were tracked to 1/4' real-to-reel and then transported to 1/8' 8-track cassette before a series of additional conversions mentioned in my original post, The material is mostly speech with some acoustic music content. A bigger test would be opera, but speech is very challenging in some unique ways, so is a good start for testing any restoration plug-in. I am especially pleased at two qualities that seem (fairly) unique to Restoration Suite: the ability to remove unusual transients (in my case, multiple transients from a mic that fell on the floor during the recording process!) and to replace them with non-distracting derivations of surrounding material; and the marvelous adaptive mode of the De-Noise module, which adjusts as it goes along and does a mighty good job of dealing with very inconsistent conditions.

One thing that still eludes me is where TC hid the De-Hum functionality. Or maybe it really isn't there.

I either need to find an EQ plug-in that supports true notch filters, or figure out why I can no longer get Soundsoap 2 to fit this role (either my memory is just bad, or there is a bug in the latest update, because I can no longer engage hum removal unless clicking the 'Learn' function and keeping broadband noise removal on afterwards, which defeats my intended usage of Soundsoap 2 as a De-Hum pre-processor for TC Restoration Suite). It is late, and when I revisit this with a more alert mind, I may find it easier to hunt down PDF documents and read through to see what I missed.

Surely I made mistakes with Soundsoap 2 tonight, because I could have sworn it was possible to use it strictly as a De-Hum module. When I read through the PDF for Restoration Suite (the one I downloaded from TC's website, as I couldn't find the one that installed with the plug-ins themselves), I initially thought this suite was intended almost solely for vinyl vs. Tape/cassette, but ended up using all five plugs. The tape in question had just about every category of noise possible, so there were relevant settings in each of the plugs. I would probably not generally want to use both De-Click and De-Crackle though, as doubling up these two plugs did start to introduce some mild pumping here and there.

Posts: 10600 Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:01 pm Location: San Francisco Bay Area Primary DAW OS: MacOS. Mhscmieder, Thanks for posting your impressions. It's interesting and encouraging to hear about the effects of advanced extrapolation: 'ability to remove unusual transients.and to replace them with non-distracting derivations of surrounding material.' Very cool Regarding my being more experienced: An accurate statement would be that I'm not hesitant to post some examples to generate discussion, and hopefully elicit more expert opinion Actually, your initial thread was the spark I needed to dig a little deeper. The plot thickens: Only for ProTools which includes the M-audio variant. I'm up against the clock tonight as the final offer from BIAS to upgrade expires at midnight, but doubt that any experiments that I do tonight will sway me in favour of the master perfection Suite, free DDP and Peak 6 upgrade, and SoundSoap Pro. I'm only posting this one quickie to state that I have located my PDF manuals and the SoundSoap2 manual quite clearly states that the Hum component should work independently of the Broadband component.

As that is NOT the case currently, there is probably a bug. There was a recent point release update (less than two months ago). But maybe I should try it in DP instead of within Peak, and see if it behaves better (how ironic if it does!). As for TC Restoration Suite, the only mention of Hum removal is that it may be detected by the 'Learn Noise' feature within the general Broadband De-Noise component.

I will experiment with different times (the default is 500 ms) and see if I am successful in getting it to remove hum. If not, then I may look into buying the WaveArts De-Hum component on its own, as it has true notch filters. I'll try to learn how to post audio attachments sometime soon, as I feel guilty about making statements in an abstract way without giving people a more neutral way to evaluate the statements. Posts: 10600 Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:01 pm Location: San Francisco Bay Area Primary DAW OS: MacOS. Although there is still a chance that I am missing something as a new user, I believe that I have verified tonight that TC Powercore DeNoise does not remove Hum.

It might remove some hum as part of broadband noise, but it is clear after selecting a section that ONLY had hum, that it is not set up to generate notch filters as part of its noise fingerprint. As none of the other plug-ins in Restoration Suite seem to be capable of this either (most of them being impulse-oriented), I am going to guess that TC Electronic simply felt De-Humming to be generic enough to not bother with, as any notch filter can handle that (although ideally one would want adaptive mode for tracking tape-originated material, to deal with fluctuations in the source frequency due to wow and flutter). Too bad notch filters are so hard to come by in EQ plug-ins. This would actually likely be my top request for new features in DP 6, as notch filters come in useful in so many contexts (computer noise while recording, etc.) and not just during audio restoration work. Posts: 10600 Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:01 pm Location: San Francisco Bay Area Primary DAW OS: MacOS. I have verified that SoundSoap 2 has a bug in version 2.1, unless the PDF manual is wrong.

Whether I run it in standalone mode, as a VST plug-in, or as an Audio Units plug-in, in BIAS Peak Pro, the broadband and hum features are linked (though they should not be). This means that de-humming only occurs when de-noising is engaged, and likewise is not bypassed in that case even when specifically turned off. I have just downloaded and installed version 2.1.1, which is dated 7 April 2007 (version 2.1.0 was dated 4 December 2006). This version does not solve the problem, and is only commented as fixing some Windows Vista issues, but the interface is slightly different in its appearance (not in its layout, but in its resolution, depth of colours, and overall cleanliness). Considering how difficult BIAS Peak is for tracking new stereo input vs.

Editing existing files (in terms of workflow for switching usage modes between tracking and editing within Peak, as compared to how easy it is to switch usage modes within Digital Performer), and long-term stability issues of SoundSoap and Peak, I am not too keen on taking the risk at this point on all of the upgrades for SoundSoap, Master Perfection Suite, DDP, and Peak itself (though I would love to have more complex fades available, which I think is a new feature in Peak 6). I end up using DP even for simple quick-and-dirty no-overdubs one-track recording as a result, which is a shame. I love Peak for SRC and basic audio editing, and SoundSoap 2 performs remarkably well for its price (and is quick in usage). But I am starting to look at alternatives across the board at this point in time, even though none of those investments are resellable (I inquired with BIAS on this point, and they said their products can only be resold as part of an overall studio sale, or something to that effect). At any rate, by default I am stuck with no anti-hum solution without investing in additional plug-ins. Considering it has been one of their strengths since their earliest plug-ins, I feel WaveArts finally deserves my dollar on this count.

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I'll check the price on their dedicated De-Hum plug-in. Posts: 10600 Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:01 pm Location: San Francisco Bay Area Primary DAW OS: MacOS. Mhschmieder wrote:At any rate, by default I am stuck with no anti-hum solution without investing in additional plug-ins. Considering it has been one of their strengths since their earliest plug-ins, I feel WaveArts finally deserves my dollar on this count. I'll check the price on their dedicated De-Hum plug-in. Did you try the MWEQ hum removal preset I posted at the beginning of this thread? It seems to take care any hum that I can hear without any noticeable adverse affects.

Might save you a few $$$. Thanks; I missed that link the first time around, as I probably saw it at work and I don't do downloads there. I just brought up DP long enough to take a look, and am surprised I didn't notice it being possible before. I had tried it myself over a year ago, but must not have tried the Type II curve, which unlike the other three types does indeed seem capable of producing fair approximations of notches. I had dismissed it due to the wide curves I got when trying it on Type I.

I'm focused on mastering right now so only left DP up long enough to visually look at those filters, since BIAS Peak Pro crashes with such little provocation as it is; much less when competing with another app (never mind the browser, which will get closed as soon as I finish hunting the TC Electronic forum for answers to my Powercore 'unknown device' mystery). Of course MasterWorks EQ cannot be used outside of DP, so it's a moot point.

But the good news is that this means it can probably be achieved with Sony Oxford EQ as well - though these still are not true notch filters, which are near-infinite in slope and magnitude. Your 'Super' Hum Remover would be the more appropriate for most cassette restorations, as it halves the trim on odd harmonics - though I got my best results with the WaveArts TrackPlug when I trimmed each successive harmonic of the hum fundamental, to avoid artefacts in removing actual audio content at neighbouring frequencies once you get up to the weaker hum harmonics. To remove all hum altogether, I generally needed more than ten filters. So it is no surprise that SoundSoap Pro provides resolution up to ten harmonics in its own De-Hum module. I think WaveArts did the same in their new restoration suite. IMac 27' 2017 Quad-Core Intel i5 (3.8 GHz, 8 GB), OSX 10.12.6, MOTU DP 9.5.2, iZotope RX 6.0.0 FireFace UFX, Audient ASP880, True Precision 8, AEA RPQ2, Radial PZ-DI & Reamp JCR Eugenio Upright, 60th P-Bass, Select J-Bass, Geddy Lee J-Bass, BBP35, HCT-500/7, Viking Bari Select Strat/Tele, Am Pro JMaster, 57 LP, RevStar RS502T, G5422-12, G5622T, T486RB, ES295, PM2, EXL1 Masterbilt De Luxe, J100 Xtra, AC530-12, E10D, OM28VTS, E20P, M20, LS8 Yamaha WX5, Hammond XK-1c, Moog Voyager Posts: 10600 Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:01 pm Location: San Francisco Bay Area Primary DAW OS: MacOS.

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