June 17, 2024

Is RX 11 Worth It? The Pro Audio Suite Weighs In!

Is RX 11 Worth It? The Pro Audio Suite Weighs In!

In this episode of The Pro Audio Suite, the team dives into the latest updates and features of RX 11 from iZotope. Robbo, Andrew, George, and Robert discuss the enhancements in RX 11, including the updated dialogue isolate feature and the ongoing...

In this episode of The Pro Audio Suite, the team dives into the latest updates and features of RX 11 from iZotope. Robbo, Andrew, George, and Robert discuss the enhancements in RX 11, including the updated dialogue isolate feature and the ongoing debate on whether it's worth upgrading. They share personal experiences with RX plugins, talk about the importance of these tools in audio production, and compare them to alternatives like Waves plugins. Tune in to find out if RX 11 is the right fit for your audio editing needs.

Key Points:

  1. Introduction:

    • Welcoming listeners and sponsors.
    • Brief overview of RX 11 and its position in the audio industry.
  2. RX 11 Features:

    • Discussion on the new features in RX 11.
    • Detailed look at the dialogue isolate tool and its effectiveness.
  3. User Experiences:

    • Personal experiences with RX 11 and previous versions.
    • Issues with compatibility and performance, particularly with Steinberg's WaveLab.
  4. Comparison with Alternatives:

    • Comparing RX 11 with other popular tools like Waves plugins.
    • Debate on whether to upgrade based on current needs and budget.
  5. Practical Applications:

    • How RX 11 fits into the workflow of voiceover artists and audio engineers.
    • Importance of tools like mouth de-click and noise reduction in everyday use.
  6. Future of RX:

    • Predictions and hopes for future updates.
    • Encouragement for users to stay updated and provide feedback.
  7. Closing Remarks:

    • Recap of discussion.
    • Shoutouts to sponsors and reminders to subscribe and join the conversation on the Facebook group.

 

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Witten from LA.

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And me, Andrew Pinkers, voice over talent and

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home studio guy.

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Line up, man!

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And Austrian Audio, making passion heard.

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Now I've been hearing a bit of word

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on the street for RX11.

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Has anybody seen it?

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I think it goes to 11.

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Yeah, it goes all the way up to

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11.

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It goes to 11.

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That's right.

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Look, I downloaded the trial of RX11.

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It's still good, but I mean, there's nothing

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in 11 that convinced me that I need

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to buy it.

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I think was the thing that I noticed.

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I have 10.

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And yeah, I could spend my money better

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elsewhere if I was going to.

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I had seven RX7.

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You would probably still be doing fine.

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You're probably okay.

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I have RX7 and I never use it.

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Well, I don't because when I was using

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WaveLab, it made it crash.

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Okay.

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Wow.

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It didn't like Steinberg.

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It crashed.

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And I did actually send an email to

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Dan at Isotope.

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And he sort of said, look, you know,

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we try and make it work for every

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DAW or recording editing bit of software.

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But some get missed and I'm thinking, well,

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Steinberg's huge.

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Why would you miss Steinberg?

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I mean, Steinberg's got Nuendo, Cubase and WaveLab.

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Steinberg's big in Europe, isn't it?

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I know it's big somewhere.

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Yeah, it's Europe that it's big in.

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It's got to be somewhere.

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It's the Hasselhoff of audio plugins.

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Hasselhoff's big in Germany.

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Yeah, it stays in Europe though.

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Hasselhoff is big in Austria.

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When they've got the voice recognition version, when

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you talk to instead of Hey Siri, it

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could be Hey Kit.

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The question always remains, every new version, RX

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Standard or RX11 Advanced, right?

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model of each version.

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Let's trickle down something from Advanced to Standard

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so that people have another motivation to upgrade.

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Because if they don't do that, there's less

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of an upgrade motivation because a lot of

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the algorithms haven't changed.

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I guarantee the amount they clicked is essentially

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the same since RX7 or RX8.

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It would have to be.

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I mean, to be fair, that is reasonably

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good, though, that they click.

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Well, yeah, I mean, it's good.

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I mean, can it get better?

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But for what it is, it does a

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good job and a lot of people rely

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on it.

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I think it's the main usable one.

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It's probably the one I use the most.

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I still draw them out in Pro Tools,

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to be honest.

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Do you?

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But I guess it's a time saving thing

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for me more than anything.

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It is a time saving thing.

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But but none of them are clean, clean,

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clean.

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They all impart.

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Like the only thing that makes it like

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just you can't tell and you truly just

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get rid of it.

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Nothing else is either isolating them and then

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hitting the D clicks.

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You don't have to zoom in so much.

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But at that point, you might as well

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just zoom in and do it perfectly.

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Are you drawing with you now?

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Or do you have your pencil set up?

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I draw with my mouse.

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With the track pal.

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With the track pad person.

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No, track ball or pad?

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Track ball.

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Track ball, yeah.

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Because I saw your track ball at NAB.

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So I know.

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Have you seen these balls?

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Track of his ball.

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Oh, geez.

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Oh, you're stepping into it there.

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Please edit that out, Andrew.

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We'll highlight that in the promo.

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If you say edit that out, it's guaranteed

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to be in the final cut.

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You've just given us this week's promo, George.

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Don't be silly.

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I've heard of Conan O'Brien's podcast.

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It's called Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend,

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by the way.

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If you haven't heard it, it's great.

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But occasionally he'll say that.

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Let's cut that out of the show.

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Let's cut that out of the show.

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And that becomes the promo.

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That's right, exactly.

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So the one, from what I can see,

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the one feature that did the trickle-down

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is dialogue isolate.

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And that is their more advanced tool for

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removing, it's sort of their clarity, I guess.

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Yeah, it's a really robust clarity.

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Yeah, it is.

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So, you know, that one's worth playing around

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with.

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But other than that, you'd be hard-pressed

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to be motivated to go to advanced unless

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you're, you know, unless you spend your days

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cleaning up production sound and tracks and video

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from other, you know, where that's all you

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do, you know, otherwise standard is perfectly fine.

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People have been asking, of course, is it

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worth upgrading?

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And I say, look, if you don't know

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for sure, you know, let's, first of all,

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if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?

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So if the audio you're putting out sounds

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great, don't get caught up in the hype.

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I mean, these companies have to sell new

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software to survive and continue.

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And so, you know, that's their job.

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And Isotope does a very good job because

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they, very early on, they partnered with a

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voiceover engineer as a developer partner.

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Like he helped, his name's Don Barnes, he

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helped create the mouth to click algorithm with

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them.

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And that was a very smart idea, right?

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Because he helps promote that product very well

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among the, especially the audio book production world.

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plugins, I think that really, I guess plugin

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companies, I should say, that really took notice

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of voiceover and audio book narration, you know,

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and said, we need to reach into that

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network and make it a partnership, make some

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kind of, they reached out.

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So I'm sure it's paid off for them.

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I mean, they've sold many, many licenses of

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our standard because people want mouth to click.

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And that plugin is only in standard.

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Well, standard and above, right?

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Standard and above, yeah.

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And there's X click from Wives, which I,

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which I think is good.

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No, no, no, no.

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Don't use that.

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Like Waves D click didn't, never did it.

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It was like waves add distortion is what

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it was.

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Every company has the things they want to,

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they focus on.

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And when you make a ton of plugins

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like Waves does, it's hard to justify a

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lot of development time on one really quirky

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plugin, like a mouth noise remover.

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Doesn't mean they won't do it, but they

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haven't.

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But it was never a mouth noise remover.

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It was a de-clicker.

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No, I know.

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But I mean, that's for restoring like vinyl

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and stuff.

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Like records and vinyl.

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And that's not exactly the same thing.

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And I think that's the reason why it

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didn't really work for its possibly best use

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case, which is mouth de-click instead of

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vinyl de-click.

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But that being said, I never used isotope

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because, you know, I just heavily use waves

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and X noise and Z noise, even though

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I admit are probably not as good.

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get that and this and that.

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The results were the clients were always happy

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with what I could pull out of those.

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I'd be interested to go around the room

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because with the way plugins are these days,

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you could go down such a massive rabbit

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hole trying to keep up.

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So for me, I have two criteria.

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First and foremost, does it work?

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Does it do what it's supposed to do?

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Does it do it well?

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Is it transparent?

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Is it transparent?

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Is it minimal artifacts?

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Is it better than anything I've got in

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my toolkit at the moment?

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And if it passes that test, then the

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next test for me is does it improve

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my workflow?

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Because as we just said, if what we're

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doing is passing the pub test, which is,

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you know, are the clients happy, then there's

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really no reason to upgrade.

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But if it's going to help me, if

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it's going to maybe do what I'm doing

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a little bit better, but it's also going

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to help me in terms of time.

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Yep.

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Then, right.

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The new stuff is way faster.

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Yep.

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And the perfect example of that would be

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Clarity, would be the last sort of thing

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that I've sort of invested in because it's

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dial it in.

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Just, you know, as we've spoke about when

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it came out, put it on the track,

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dial it in and bang, it's pretty much

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done.

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And nine times out of 10, it's done

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better than anything else.

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Here's my experience with Clarity versus like Z

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noise.

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Z noise, you would noise reduce and you'd

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hit the floor of where, if you try

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to reduce it too much more, you were

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hearing new noises or weird noises.

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Artifacts.

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Clarity, you can, yeah, artifacts basically, exactly.

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Clarity, you can just reduce everything.

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And it's harder to put your finger on

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the artifacts, but what you do have is

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clients who literally asked me to add noise

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back in.

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Probably to the same degree that I could

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get it down with Z noise in the

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first place.

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And you're just sort of zeroing in on

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the same point as far as, you know,

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there it is.

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It works for the job.

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And my primary use has not been denoising

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completely upfront dialogue.

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You know, maybe it's stuff recorded on camera.

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So there's an expected amount of noise floor

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with that that is acceptable.

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So it's not a person in the booth

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where you need to hit like absolute zero

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pretty much.

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I'm sure there's like, you know, there's always

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the very tip of the sphere, essentially.

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So, yeah, it's cedar.

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I mean, no one talks about cedar for

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me.

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Cedar, yeah.

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Well, what's interesting is that Clarity VX, from

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my experience, and I haven't used it extensively,

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but I use it here and there as

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a problem solver, it does seem to preserve

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the mouth noise, correct?

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Is that what you're...

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It doesn't remove mouth noise.

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Yeah, no, because it seems to just concentrate

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on sort of a consistent noise as opposed

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to a click and a pop and all

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that sort of stuff.

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Yeah.

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It seems that you would think that they

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could train that.

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They could have a model, at least maybe.

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They could have another model, you know, has

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broad one, broad two.

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A de-click model.

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They could have like a de-click model

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or something.

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I tell you what, George, they probably are

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working on that, but you can bet that

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it won't be a model.

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It'll be another plug.

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It'll be Clarity de-click or something like

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that.

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Go buy this one now.

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Yeah.

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Let me propose the name of the knob.

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It's a humidity knob and you can turn

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it up or down.

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Humidity knob.

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Yeah.

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So when it's very high humidity, the microphone

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starts crackling.

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Is that what it's for?

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I guess.

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I mean, usually with like, with voiceover, if

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you have a too humid of a mouth,

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you have a lot more mouth.

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Oh, yeah, that's true.

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Gotcha.

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So it'll be wave humidity then.

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Is that what we're calling the plug?

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It's a moisture knob.

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Should we get Gomez on the line now?

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Give him the heads up.

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Yeah.

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Moist levels.

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Moist.

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Yeah.

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Moist.

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Moist.

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We're going down the hill now.

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Quick.

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Finish the episode.

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This is the way we do things around

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here.

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I've got to say, though, I don't use

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plug-ins and I, with, if I'm doing

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dialogue editing, which I do on this show,

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I do it all manually.

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Yeah.

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I don't put my balls on.

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See, you're past 60, so you're just old

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school.

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That's the thing.

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I'm old school.

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I do it actually holding a razor blade.

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He actually transfers it to tape.

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He's got the splicing block and razor blade

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and China grass sitting in front of him.

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Is that right?

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Absolutely.

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That's what all those white marks are on

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your screen.

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That wasn't to do with editing tape.

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Oh, you had a band in over the

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weekend.

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That answers the question.

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The multi-purpose studio tour.

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The razor blade.

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Thank you very much.

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The gift that keeps on giving.

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Well, that was fun.

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Is it over?

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