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Re: [microsound] [OT]? Hiss reduction recommendations

I find the Waves plugins really delicate: you've got to be very careful about your program material, and the settings, or they'll "glitch" (not ALWAYS a bad thing, of course), or distort badly on you.

For noise reduction, I still haven't seen a more comprehensive, or adjustable, plugin than the Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction plugin. It uses the "snapshot" approach to finding the noise element of a sound, which is much more accurate and useable than that used by the Steinberg denoiser plugin (which "guesses" at what's noise and what's not). Also, the range of control - from amount of noise reduction to apply, to the FFT windowing, and range controls are great. Uniquely, I think, how quickly it reacts to the signal:noise changes is completely controllable (I recommend using the SLOWEST possible settings you can that still attack the noise - the results are very smooth and alias free.) Also, the plugin seems to apply a good deal of level compensation on it's own, bringing the signal back to a strong level after the noise has been removed (I cannot confirm this, but that's the way it sounds to me).

After de-noising, I've found no better compressor than the PSP Vintage Warmer. It's got a brick-wall Ceiling setting that nothing gets through, and it's "warming" function actually seems to mimic tape drive very well. Seperate controls for the compression knee, the ratio, the release rate, are necessities, and work well. Also, the "warming" function can be multi-band, so the lows get a different amount of warmth than the highs. All-in-all a very, very nice plugin. Not cheap, however.

These plugins are both DirectX, but the Vintage Warmer also includes a VST version (I prefer the DX versions because their "user" modes work more intuitively for me than do the VST "bank" functions.)

My two cents worth,

bud


At 09:40 PM 3/3/02, you wrote: 
I agree, all of the Wave plugins are quite good.

On Sunday, March 3, 2002, at 09:21 PM, olaf wrote:

Waves <http://www.waves.com/> offers a restoration bundle demo , I haven't
tried it yet myself(could be fun).

Waves Restoration Bundle is really good. 


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