Sweetwater offers academic pricing on iZotope Rx2 and even their standard p=
rice is less than the price on the iZotope website. Could be very interest=
ing. Thanks for this thread!
John
--- In Kenton Brede <> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Skeoch <> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Kent,
> >
> > The possibilities for cleaning up nature recordings has changed an orde=
r of
> > magnitude with Izotope RX suite of processing tools:
> > http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/
> >
> > They work best as stand alone, and I use them with protools too, so the=
y
> > probably act as plug ins for other editing software.
> >
> > Most things that have been banes of a nature recordists existence can n=
ow
> > be dealt with, if not completely then at least to some degree, dependin=
g
> > upon severity; traffic noise, aircraft, clicks, dogs, cattle, sheep, gu=
n
> > blasts... even tummy rumbles :-)
> >
> > The Spectral Repair tool is probably the most useful for all these
> > (although I use the De-Construct module in the Advanced suite quite a b=
it
> > too). Its all pretty simple to learn, and very intuitive as it displays
> > audio via a sonogram interface. ...I'm sounding like a sales rep aren't=
I?
> > Well, its changed the way I work anyway!
> >
> > Thanks Andrew. This sounds promising. I was able to get the best Sand=
hill
> Crane recordings I've ever done this Spring. But the cranes roost in the
> Platte River in Nebraska, which of course is right next to the interstate=
.
> So there's no way of avoiding traffic noise. I will give the demo a try =
and
> see if I can reduce some of this background noise. I was initially
> attracted to the Adobe product because I use their products for image pos=
t
> processing and I get the educators discount. Izotope is pretty pricey bu=
t
> if it does what I need, then it's probably worth the cost.
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Kent Brede
> http://sandhillsnaps.com/
> http://aphotoaday.sandhillsnaps.org/
>
>
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