Thanks for the tip. :) I contacted Sweetwater and academic pricing is as
follows: Rx2 $175.00, Advanced $650.00.
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Kent Brede
http://sandhillsnaps.com/
http://aphotoaday.sandhillsnaps.org/
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, John Carroll <> wrote:
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> Sweetwater offers academic pricing on iZotope Rx2 and even their standard
> price is less than the price on the iZotope website. Could be very
> interesting. Thanks for this thread!
>
> John
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> --- In Kenton Brede <> wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Skeoch <> wrote:
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> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Kent,
> > >
> > > The possibilities for cleaning up nature recordings has changed an
> order 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
> they
> > > probably act as plug ins for other editing software.
> > >
> > > Most things that have been banes of a nature recordists existence can
> now
> > > be dealt with, if not completely then at least to some degree,
> depending
> > > upon severity; traffic noise, aircraft, clicks, dogs, cattle, sheep,
> gun
> > > 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
> bit
> > > too). Its all pretty simple to learn, and very intuitive as it displa=
ys
> > > 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
> Sandhill
> > Crane recordings I've ever done this Spring. But the cranes roost in th=
e
> > 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
> post
> > processing and I get the educators discount. Izotope is pretty pricey b=
ut
> > 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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