That, along with Spectralayers and a few other plugins covers me quite nicely for any restoration I need to carry out.But. Purely as a suggestion, I've recently purchased Zynaptiq's Unfilter which is quite incredible at cleaning up audio. That, along with Spectralayers and a few other plugins covers me quite nicely for any restoration I need to carry out. That's incredibly useful if you want to work on multiple tracks. RX7 is very good at what it does but it's more of a case of 'I'll do the job for you' rather than 'I'll give you the tools to do the job.' Spectralayers editing/selection tools are better than RX7's and, of course, as its name suggests, a key selling point is its ability to perform operations on multiple spectral layers. The main difference between Spectralayers Pro and RX7 is that RX7 is very much designed toward automated processes whereas Spectralayers isn't. and I want full manual control of doing that. Why? If I have to use a spectral editor for cleaning a particular piece of audio, I generally need to perform a fairly straightforward editing operation, i.e. Is it effective? Have you compared it to RX, and is there any difference between the results you can get from the two tools?Īny first-hand experience and thoughts would be very much appreciated!Īfter deliberating on RX7 for a long time and unable to convince myself, I finally went for Spectralayers Pro when it was acquired by Steinberg and being offered at an introductory price. I'm keen to hear from anyone who might have used SpectraLayers. It seems to feature the same spectral editing functionality as RX. I'm now looking to but a spectral editing tool, and have seen that Steinberg offer SpectraLayers - which integrates with ARA within Cubase for seamless editing. It even worked for exposed acoustic piano, which was very pleasing. We were able to us its spectral editing to pull out specific unwanted sounds, without and perceptible harm to the actual audio we wanted to keep.

We used iZotope RX for a few months using a rental option, and the results were very good.

These noises can be anything from cars passing, or birds tweeting - through to (sometimes) aircraft overhead. We are doing a lot of recording on-site (usually of solo piano, or piano with one other instrument) in locations where there are ambient noises.

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