[Don Baarns]

[Melanie Easton] “This is great though – I just saw on izotope’s website that they have a free trial so I might give this a go. Also would come in handy for a few other videos I’m working on with less than stellar audio, so will play around with it and see if I can get it to work as well for me. Pretty new to audio software though so might be a bit of a learning curve for me.
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Melanie,

RX is in a different league compared to tools in Audacity. It’s a pro-grade solution, it’s not cheap but you get what you pay for.

Worth it for anybody serious about audio-production/restoration. It has a great set of other tools beyond just Noise Reduction, so it will solve issues and/or improve other areas that are not even on your radar screen yet.

People in our FB group get a deal on it ($275 for Standard edition last time I checked…) We have around 700 people in the group who use it regularly to solve a wide range of issues.

Again: An investment, but worth it.

Don Baarns
Audio Rescue RX – iZotope RX Users:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AudioRescue/

Studio One and iZotope RX Tutorials for Narrators, Podcasters, VO, Spoken Word:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RedBaarnsAudio

[Don Baarns]

Hi Melanie,

I was travelling on business so didn’t get back to this until today.

Here’s two versions, the first with one pass of Spectral Denoiser (RX5), and a second version with 2 passes, one Spectral to knock down the majority, and a second pass with the Dialog Denoiser.

There’s also a hi/low pass.

You could be more aggressive if desired, but both of these are certainly a decent improvement, with NO hand processing (you could easily run the complete file safely without damaging your audio.)

If you have questions or comments, fire away.

Don

9484_9463headspace16denoised.zip

[Don Baarns]

Works for me…

I’ll run it and see if it’s any different.

Some audio can’t be saved no matter what we are using. Just depends on the source and the nature of the noise compared to the dialog.

[Don Baarns]

I’m late to this party, but just for future reference:

In lots of cases you can use RX4 or 5 to remove an amazing amount of background noise. In most cases it won’t be production quality when you start with very low quality audio, but if you know what you’re doing you can make huge progress.

The Audacity noise reduction is not very effective, but RX is in a different league.

How long is the audio? Can you post a sample? (I’m new to this forum, I don’t know if that’s allowed.)

Or I can set up a Google drive share and I’ll give it a few minutes with RX. It really depends on the exact nature of the background, but the Dialog Denoiser is pretty slick.

[Don Baarns]

Larry,

It’s a great investment if you need to clean up audio.

Depending on your specific usage case (cleaning up mouth noise, or denoising, declicking, etc) it can save you hours. Some things can be batched, some can’t. Just depends what you’re trying to do.

RX5 has some slick new tools, but it may or may not be worth the upgrade (I’d go from RX3 to 5 in a heartbeat, much improved…)

If you’re on Facebook, we have a group of 600+ people using RX to save audio.

Most of the users are doing narration or dialog, but we also have some very experienced film/video production people.

Extensive coverages of RX 4 and 5, with some v3 users.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AudioRescue/

Hope that helps.