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Old 09-07-2009, 05:21 AM
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Izotope Rx is fantastic for the price.

Edit: It would be fantastic at 3x the price too.
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Old 09-07-2009, 07:45 AM
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For removing hiss? LPF.
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Old 09-07-2009, 10:30 AM
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Isn't sonic no-noise almost $2000? I find it really hard to believe that it would be ten times better than Izotope. RX has been more than capable of dealing with any noise I throw at it so far.
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Old 09-07-2009, 10:36 AM
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Isn't sonic no-noise almost $2000? I find it really hard to believe that it would be ten times better than Izotope. RX has been more than capable of dealing with any noise I throw at it so far.
If it does 1/10 harm compared to others, would it not be 10x better? It's apparently so hard to LISTEN nowadays...
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Old 09-07-2009, 11:06 AM
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If it does 1/10 harm compared to others, would it not be 10x better? It's apparently so hard to LISTEN nowadays...
It's not 1/10th as harmful as RX, not by any means. If it were, that doesn't translate into 10x better. Going from 1/9th to 1/10th doesn't make it another order of magnitude "better." But the semantics don't matter.

And it's funny to "listen" to the absence of sound. NoNoise takes it away. RX takes it away. Is one better? Eh, for $1,800 difference, no.

If the guy's doing audio forensics, NoNoise, or Cedar, better yet, would be interesting. Read the manual, use RX, restore audio. Done.

On the other hand, if the question is "best" - price no object -- Cedar.
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Old 09-07-2009, 11:07 AM
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For removing hiss? LPF.
What about the stuff above the cutoff point that you want to KEEP?
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What about the stuff above the cutoff point that you want to KEEP?
he´s a flatwound strings bass player ?
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Old 09-08-2009, 01:49 PM
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Do you have any interest guys in comparing NoNoise and RX on some real-world noise sample? I did this myself and wasn't very impressed with NoNoise, but I've only used a short sample and I've been biased towards RX: (link to my comparison). Anyone willing to do a more representative test?
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Old 09-08-2009, 01:53 PM
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And of course all this comes to taste anyway, I personally was NOT impressed with the Cedar box at all, and prefer the 'character' of Izotope over it. I felt the Cedar was affecting the quality of the sound much more than Izotope, even though one is $200 and one is $10,000

Maybe the Cedar is capable of much better than I heard from it, maybe we weren't using it right, but honestly what I heard I was not that impressed.

I think it's honestly (like NoNoise) one of those "I paid a TON for this thing, so it MUST sound that much better"
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Old 09-08-2009, 02:13 PM
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I think it's honestly (like NoNoise) one of those "I paid a TON for this thing, so it MUST sound that much better"
shhhhh... You're not supposed to tell the secret of half the audio industry!

FWIW, I'm an Izotope Rx fan, too. I don't do much restoration day-to-day, but I cleaned up lots of audio recorded on an airfield with Rx a few months ago. Pretty impressive stuff, considering I was used to X-Noise.
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