Anyone Used SoundSoap 3?

[David Mathis]

Sorry, but I don’t do impressions 🙂

[Andy Lewis]

How about requests? You hum the melody and I’ll remove the background.

[Charlie Austin]

:sigh:

🙂

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[Andy Lewis]

I haven’t used SoundSoap 3. I used earlier versions and liked it a lot. Then a couple of years passed and when I had to remove some background noise all the internet talk was of Izotope RX. So that’s what I use now.

RX is amazing. I haven’t done any kind of comparison though.

[Jason Jenkins]

[andy lewis] “I haven’t used SoundSoap 3. I used earlier versions and liked it a lot. Then a couple of years passed and when I had to remove some background noise all the internet talk was of Izotope RX. So that’s what I use now.

RX is amazing. I haven’t done any kind of comparison though.”

I tried the demo of RX as a plugin for FCPX recently. The results I got were definitely not as good as exporting audio and using noise reduction in Audition. Maybe it was operator error; I don’t know. I want to try out Soundsoap in FCPX, but there doesn’t seem to be a demo version.

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[Jon Cairns]

There is a demo but the link is in the support section. Here’s the direct link:

https://www.soundness-llc.com/ss_trial.html

I found it in the FAQ’s or something. The plugin is about how I remember SoundSoap 2, decent but not as powerful as RX, IMHO.

jon

[Nick Ring]

I am a bit dense at times, but I had trouble using RX as a FCPX plugin. Exporting the audio and processing in RX standalone has produced much better results for me.

I haven’t used Audition since Cool Edit Pro days and since I’m not working with CC and don’t have 6 installed here, I haven’t had a chance to test it out. I have, however, heard really good reports about it.

-nick

[Andy Lewis]

I loved SoundSoap back in the day and maybe it’s still great but RX is the closest thing to magic in my applications folder.

I always use it standalone.

For noise removal, I usually try only removing noise from about 300 to 8000 hz. Especially when removing air con noise, it seems to leave a lot more of the desired room noise in place.

[Jeff Kirkland]

If anyone does give it a whirl, please post the results. I used to use Soundsoap all the time but now I have both Audition and Izotope RX so I haven’t felt like parting with the upgrade price just to see what the new version is like.

Some good noise reduction that I could apply directly on the FCPX timeline would be handy though…

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[Brett Sherman]

I’ve used an early version of SoundSoap, and it definitely was not nearly as good as iZotope RX. I don’t know if improvements have made it comparable now or not.

RX should really be used in the standalone application. I’ve attempted to use RX in the timeline, but couldn’t get it to work right. The key is to get a good noise print and that’s hard to do using it as a plug-in, as you have to set an in and an out where there is no talking. Then save that as a preset. I could sometimes get it to do it, but mostly I couldn’t. Spectral Repair is basically impossible in the timeline.

This is my workflow. Disable everything around the sound you want to correct in timeline. Mark in and out around clip you want to correct. Export an AIFF file (Mono if it’s not a stereo source) – I made a Compressor preset to make this faster.

Open AIFF file in iZotope. Correct. Save as .WAV file to avoid overwriting original AIFF. Drag WAV into timeline as connected clip. Disable audio track in original clip. Enable other audio tracks.

This is very fast. Much faster than trying to make it work in the timeline.