"I think if I spend any more money at this point it'll be on a copy of Izot=
ope RX4. "
Charles, if you want to play with noise reduction (heresy on
this list!), you might best start by looking through the archives of
this group. A few years ago, there was a post with a link to a
legal and free copy of Adobe Audition 3.0. Hopefully, it still might
work or another link may exist if you search for it. You might also look at=
Audacity (I haven't tried it.)
The noise reduction tools in AA3 are very
powerful and for the noise we're talking about, can be made to rival what =
you can do in RX or in
SpectraLayers from Sony, although I confess I'm not fond of the
workflow. The nicest part of RX (IMO), is the Deconstruct module and
you'll have to buy the Advanced version to get it ($$$). Also, you get caug=
ht up in a rather expensive and sometimes senseless 'upgrade' scheme.
Having been
down this road (I did have other justifications for buying RX & SL), I'd
strongly suggest you spend the cash on better mics and experiments with
stereo arrays first. For the price of RX Advanced, you could get the EM172'=
s, play with arrays, pay for the fuel to get to a quiet-ish place and learn=
some really useful stuff. --Better to make good recordings than spend all=
your time fixing bad ones.
The demo videos for these products show them easily doing wonderful things =
on a 15 second clip. Try doing 30 - 90 minute files assuming you want to ch=
eck every second for leftover artifacts --at every stage. You'll get over y=
our infatuation pretty quickly.
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