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iZotope RX 2 Advanced

RX 2 and RX 2 Advanced are complete suites of audio repair tools that come as plug-ins for Macs and PCs host DAW systems or as a standalone application. There are five modules in both versions: Denoise, Declip, Spectral Repair, Declick & Decrackle, and Remove Hum. RX 2 Advanced adds an Adaptive Denoise feature for tracking changing noise profiles and will reduce artifacts and add high frequency enhancement.

Advanced also has Deconstruct to separate audio into tonal and noisy components, 64-bit sample rate conversion, Radius® pitch and time control, Azimuth alignment for tape recording restoration plus support for 3rd party Native plug-ins. An excellent plug-in tool in both RX versions is Declip. It's valuable for correcting over recorded audio tracks (reds) I get from time to time. It works perfectly!

I gravitated towards the standalone version of RX 2 Advanced and found improved Declick and handy Decrackle tools. It's easy to "wash" old vinyl records using these tools and extract just the music with relatively low impact on its sonic quality. You can preview exactly what you're removing at any time before you commit to processing.

Much like similar tools in Photoshop, the standalone RX Advanced version also has the wondrous lasso, brush and magic wand tools for freely selecting and removing problem noises made visible in the spectrograph.

I had a sound effect for the end of a song I was mixing that was spoiled by a loud low frequency motor sound that was impossible to get out. Rolling off the low frequencies affected the rest of the sound too much but by seeing that sound's contribution to the whole sound in the spectrograph, I was able to lasso it and remove it. It was amazing--like it never happened!

iZotope's RX 2 Advance is an amazing collection of tools to have in your studio. I'm just starting to use it more for problems that in the past were only solved with the erase button. RX 2 sells for $349 while RX 2 Advanced is $1,199 MSRP. Learn more about both RX 2 and RX 2 Advanced are at: www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/



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