Hi,
I see that Soundsoap Pro2 is shareware at =A365.00, would it be worth a
beginner, such as myself, purchasing this? I'm just getting into using
Audition 1.5, but this thread certainly seems to imply advantages in
Soundsoap Pro, but is the learning curve too steep do you think for
someone at my stage of learning?
Regards
Max
Scott Fraser wrote:
> <<Interesting... the systems I've used begin with a noise print, and
> then the paramaters (threshold, noise reduction, etc.) can be
> adjusted manually based on that noise print. Is that what Bias
> Soundsoap Pro does? (I get the impression from your message that its
> noise printing is automatic and offers no user intervention...
> perhaps I misread?)>>
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> Right, that's how SoundSoap Pro works, too. You hit the "Learn Noise" =
> button & it comes up with a 'curve' which you can get in & work on
> manually afterwards band by band, to fine tune the process. The user
> interface is basically that of a graphic EQ, with 2 faders per band.
> One for threshold & one for amount of noise reduction. I just find
> that the 'learned noise' print version is always too heavy handed & I =
> get better (to my ears) results by zeroing all the faders & manually
> tuning only the few bands I feel are needed.
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> Last year I purchased iZotope's RX noise reduction software & have
> found it a tool I can't use. It's not a real time process. It takes a =
> noise print and you have some control over amount of noise reduction. =
> You have to wait for it to render the file to hear the results, you
> have no control over frequency weighting, & in all cases I found the
> 'one size fits all' approach they present the user with provided
> results which were either insufficiently noise reduced, or which
> degraded the audio by doing too much. I really find I need the
> individual control of multiple frequency bands to obtain noise
> reduction results I can live with. This is for my CD mastering
> business, so the quality demands are critical.
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> <<When adjusting parameters, by the way, I always monitor the signal
> being removed to ensure that none of the signal I want to keep is
> being removed. This usually allows me to get an optimum level of
> noise reduction that does not compromise the desired signal itself.>>
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> SoundSoap Pro does this too, with the "Noise Only" button. It's
> crucial to check this regularly to make sure it's only taking
> unwanted noise & none of the desired signal.
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> I'll point out again that SoundSoap Pro is vastly different from
> SoundSoap, which IMO is basically useless for professional work.
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> Scott Fraser
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