Acon Digital Restoration Suite 2 Vs Izotope

[Elia Khensamphanh]

FirstI made my space as noisy as possible. I left the door to my booth open, turned on the dryer and the dishwasher, turned up the air vent for my booth to full power, and did everything that I could think of to worsen mouth noises.

The DeClip example at the end of that video is also quite incredible. For my own test, I crowded the mic and forced myself to cause clipping. Again, the results were amazing. When I listened back to 2 lines that I had recorded (1 at normal volumes and 1 fixed by the DeClip tool), I had a hard time finding any artifacts introduced by DeClip.

Hello Steven. This will be about the fourth time I have thanked you for the tip to try Acon. This week, a new neighbour arrived with a DOG. Yes D.O.G. Yap. With Acon denoise tuned to the bark frequency, it simply deletes the beast. Well, the sound anyway!

Astonished, I tested for side-effects by sweeping my voice through the dog band, and then likewise an oscillator, at varied levels.

It leaves wanted sound well alone, with not a hint of undersea weirdery. How do they do it?

Thanks for this info Steven! I just invested in a different suite of iZotope products (Studio Bundle) and the RX suite was a consideration. Then again, so was my budget! Nice to know other options exist.

Steven,

Nice article. I have a quick question. I am producing podcasts, and am using adobe audition cc. I was wondering if this restoration suite is better than the similar noise reduction tools found in audition? I often find myself frustrated, and going in circles .

Good question Justin. They offer a demo download that will turn itself off every once in a while until its paid for. You can try it side=by-side and make your own assessment. Let me know what you think.

I use TwistedWave Light on my Mac Book Air..I have the mouth click problem and am considering Izotope..but now am curious about Acon. For me tech-wise , it has to be super simple to install & operate. Already reading some of the above comments, I get technically worried..can I figure this out I ask myself. I really would like to get this click problem resolved, yet keep it basic. What say you?

I have a noise removal tool built in fl studio. but it cannot be applied on live input. it takes a noise sample and cut the noisy frequencies from the whole track which really works great. But I want a real time noise removal vst for my electric guitar. which one has the live / real time de-noising ability? RX or acon?.

You can use it for most things you'd use Izotope's RX for. I use it for audio restoration or subtle noise/hum reduction on individual tracks/recordings. Comes with the typical modules (de-noise, de-hum, de-clip, de-click). Not as fully-featured powerful as RX Standard/Advanced, but it's excellent at what it does and has a very nice/intuitive interface. Great price, too, I bought it during a Black Friday sale for abour $60.

I have RX 7 Elements, but I haven't even installed it, since most of the material I work with is either from VIs or DIs, so unwanted noise is rarely an issue. Though I am about to record some vocals in a sub-optimal environment, so maybe I should pick this up just in case.

I remember, like 20 year ago, I had Nero CD burning suite and was able to use it's built-in noise removal tool to first analyze a 10-20sec sample then remove with an offline process, it was soooo good! I had a really bad recorded digital stage piano, low signal with lots of background noise and some loud annoying buzz from a bad wiring. Fortunately there was enough just noise at the beginning before the actual music started so I could take just a sample for analysis, then it cleared the whole take from most of the background noise and completely removed the buzz, leaving piano sound literally untouched. I was speechless. Is there any alternative like that nowadays? Is this Acon suite capable to do same thing?

DeNoise 2 is a plug-in designed to reduce noise such as hiss, wind noise, buzz and camera noise. The noise can be reduced automatically in the adaptive mode or after measuring the characteristics of the noise in the noise profile mode

It might not leave you speechless though, our expectations evolved too much since then. Forget how good Nero was, like everyone else, you were probably shocked at the time that there was such a denoise-ing tool to begin with, so you bet that piano sound was left 'untouched'. Now you'll be fiddling with Acon for an hour or so, for +/- 1% soft knee tweaks and careful parallel processing , to be just about content with the amount of sheen lost in the high-mids.

Mastering Suite consisting of Equalize 2, Dynamics, Multiband Dynamics, Limit and Dither.

Verberate 2, our renowned natural sounding reverb plug-in

Restoration Suite 2 with four plug-ins for audio restoration: DeNoise 2, DeHum 2, DeClick 2 and DeClip 2.

Extract:Dialogue automatically reduces background noise in dialogue recordings

DeWind:Dialogue automatically reduces wind noise from dialogue

DeRustle:Dialogue automatically reduces clothing rustle and microphone bump noise from lavalier recordings

DeBuzz:Dialogue automatically reduces buzz and hum noises such as neon light buzz, AC power hum, RF transmission interference from dialogue recordings

Transfer, an AAX plug-in that makes audio transfers between Pro Tools and Acoustica a breeze.

I can recommend the Restoration Suite 2. When I made a comparison with the corresponding RX plugins some time ago, I found that they are on the same level and one plugin (Acon DeClip or DeClick) was even better IMO, i.e. it delivered clearly a better result on my test case.

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