Fixing Pops & Clicks with Izotope RX with Warren Sokol - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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- čas přidán 23. 12. 2017
- Fixing Pops & Clicks with Izotope RX. Learn more here: bit.ly/2BVN0UL
Warren Sokol is a highly accomplished Mastering engineer with over 20 years of experience and hundreds of albums under his belt. Warren has mastered records for Method Man, LL Cool J, Imagine Dragons, Paul McCartney, Moody Blues, Lana Del Ray and many others.
If you’re a producer, mixer, or mastering engineer, Warren's 3 hour course is for you: We all know that high-quality recordings are paramount to making a hit record. However, sometimes the equipment fails us during a flawless take, causing clicks, dropouts or introducing hum. Maybe someone forgets to turn off the AC, or a loud truck passes during the session. Unfortunately we don’t always get the chance to re-record it.
Learn how to:
➔ Counteract excessive amp noise & grounding issues
➔ Seamlessly smooth out microphone dropouts, clicks & pops
➔ Get rid of distracting mouth noises & plosives in your vocals
➔ Remove air conditioning noise & rumble caused by power issues
➔ Tame distortion & clipping
➔ Reduce tape hiss & Vinyl crackling
That’s where audio repair and noise reduction can be a life saver. With this tutorial, you’ll have an a-list Mastering Engineer showing you the ropes!
You’ll learn a wide variety of audio repair and noise reduction techniques depending on your situation, so you can overcome any challenge thrown your way!
Get the course here: bit.ly/2BTINAT
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Produce Like A Pro is a website which features great tips to help the beginning recordist make incredible sounding home recordings on a budget. - Hudba
Hi Friends, I hope you’re doing marvellously well! Mastering Engineers get all kinds of work, such as Pop/Rock/Hip Hop/R&B etc mixes that have pops or clicks in them, hum and other extraneous noises which need to be skillfully removed! Also of course a large part of what they do is restoration work to old cassette recordings, reel to reel two track, Vinyl etc that need to be transferred to a digital medium for modern playback. Here Warren Sokol shows us some of the typical things he encounters and how to fixes these issue! Thanks for watching! Many thanks Warren
thanks warren h and warren s !!
Great tutorial Warren Sokol, thanks Warren PLAP!
Hi Jim Hahn haha thanks!!
Hi Harmony Studios thanks ever so much!!
Hi Darlene Sheffield thanks ever so much!!
WOW! This is a truly amazing program, its good to know about the microscopic details of getting to the finished product. Thanks again.
Hi Zorro in Hell agreed! I was really impressed
Thanks Zorro in Hell!! RX is truly a super power of software & has many more features that we didn't have time to get into!! Thanks for watching!!
Thanks Warren S!! Happy New Year!
It creates beautiful visuals as well. Some of those screen shots could be hung as art.
Hi Chris Padgett I agree! Very impressive!!
HAHA!! indeed they could!!
There was a WAV file passing around the internet a while ago (I have a copy...somewhere??) that mainly played back as noise & odd sounds, but when put into a Spectral Editor like this, you could see words, faces & other images drawn out in the time/freq/level waveform!! Similar to the German industrial synth artists who put out hard to listen to "music" that would create cool patterns on an oscilloscope while it played!! The time it would take to complete that kind of thing is insane!!
Thanks a lot for watching Chris!!
They're not art when you have to edit voice overs all day lol. They are a pain in the ass.
Excellent tutorial thanks the Warrens x2!!!
Hi IWant Appledumplings marvellous! Thanks ever so much!!
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed watching as much as I enjoyed filming it!! (BTW, IWant Appledumplings too!!!)
thanks warren h and warren s !!
Hi Darlene Sheffield thanks ever so much!!
Hi Darlene!! thanks for watching!!
Great video. Thank you for putting it together.
Great video explanation Warren Sokol!
Hi Harmony Studios thanks ever so much!!
Thank a ton!! Happy to pass along the info!!
Yes thanks Warren S!
Wow, huge thank you for sharing! Awesome presentation of skillful art really, yes you are an artist!
Was looking for a software like this one,
thank you sir!
Thanks for great video.
Fantastic! More of this would be greatly appreciated!
Hi calvinlanz definitely!! More coming!!
Thanks so much for watching calvinlanz!! More coming in 2018, thanks for the support!!
Definitely! Thanks Warren S!!
Amazing!
Hi Matthew Diamante thanks!!
Thanks so much Matthew!!
PLAP you have everything we need to succeed! I have to remove the odd artifact from 13 hours of live off the floor recordings that ran through a Dante network from the FOH. So glad I checked this out before I started processing the audio through RX. Also, RX is well worth the investment!
Very informative video, thank you :)
Thanks very much! So glad to be able to help bring Warren S to everyone!
Thanks for watching!!
Glad it gave you some new ideas!!
This is sooooo helpful!!!!
Thanks very much Eric!! Have a marvellous New Year!!
Great!! Glad your are enjoying it!!
I came from facebook, this is so cool! I work on Logic Pro, but Im getting on Izotop soon! Saludos desde México wey! (Sorry for my bad english I didnt corect my mistakes)
Hi Alan Cuevas Flores thanks ever so much!! Glad the FaceBook link works! I completely understand your English! Significant better than my Spanish!!
Hi Alan! Your English is great!! Like WH said, certainly better than my Spanish would be!
Thanks for watching!! RX is a great program for audio repair & other "technical needs" like sample rate conversion, dithering & also file & audio analysis tools as well! Very powerful indeed! But just to be fair, there are a lot of other Noise Reduction tools available that work in a similar way.
Although I used RX for this video, I tried to explain the techniques I was using & why so it wasn't just an explanation of RX, but the how & why of the tools used, whether you are using RX, or the Noise Reduc plugins from Sonnox, or Ceder & many others.
Is there a to remove vinyl record recording pops without sacrificing the drums edging? Is there a way to apply declick in intervals except for drums/beats leading edges?
As it happens I have to do the same exact things on a daily basis editing sound for video (using RX as well).
I never thought about mastering engineers doing it, though it makes sense, I guess.
Hi Daniel • yes, indeed! Mastering engineers do this on a daily basis. Especially when doing restoration work and remastering old recordings! Thanks for your marvellous comment
Thanks for watching Daniel! Yes RX & other noise reduction tools gets used in audio mastering regularly. Like WH mentioned when we are doing restoration, or remastering older albums. But even in new recordings, there can be noises & tics, etc that were masked by al the instrumentation until mastering & then as the details are brought out & the level is brought up they can start to show themselves. A lot of times it is broadband noise during intros, or fadeouts. But there are also pops & tics that are not always heard by the original rec eng/prod/artist/etc because they are so intimately familiar with the song, or lyrics that they are not listening past that stuff. This is one of the main reasons having a professional mastering engineer do the final mastering even if you are capable of doing it. Someone who wasn't there during tracking & mixing, who can hear the songs as completed songs...not tracks & mix techniques that were used!
Thanks again for watching!! Hope you learned something new that you can use on your side of the audio world! ;^)
Hello Warren Sokol - Warren Huart,
Which one of you is in this above tutorial? I would like know if you offer courses using the Spectrum Editor for VO. I am having trouble identifying / isolating / eliminating clicks in my audio.
Thanks, I look forward to your reply.
Kind regards,
Pete
Genuinely learned something here. Thanks for the video. Have you got recommendations for plugin/s that great rid of noise/static on vocal tracks?
Thanks from the Outer Hebrides.
Hi spiralsofdanu wow hello there in the Outer Hebrides! That’s amazing! My recommendations are few and far between, every manufacturer has a version of denoising it seems, Waves make some good ones, it does however seem this program is the best I’ve ever seen in action! Have a marvellous Nee Year!!
Hi spiralsofdanu, thanks for watching!! So happy that you gained some knowledge & ideas from this video!!
As far as broadband noise reduction plugin recommendations go, one of the better ones I've seen recently is the Sonnox "DeNoiser"! Like RX it is very simple to use, but can also give you extremely detailed control if needed & it has an excellent GUI!! Sonnox has a line of 3 audio repair plugins that are all quite impressive, they make a DeNoiser, DeBuzzer, DeClicker & they can be purchased individually...where RX is an entire "suite" of tools that has to all be purchased at once.
(FYI, since at least version-9, Wavelab now comes with simplified versions of the Sonnox noise reduc plugins!! They are much simpler than the full versions, but still work very well!)
Like WH mentioned Waves makes some NR plugins, but I've never gotten good results quickly with them. Not that they don't work, it just takes considerably more time futzing with options to get an acceptable trade off between reducing the problem, adding artifacts & keeping the quality of the intended sound intact.
Then there are the really expensive options like AudioCube, CEDAR & NoNoise both of which are excellent at what they do, but cost more than most modern DAWs do!
NoNoise in particular has to be run from within the SoundBlade mastering DAW only!?! It definitely excels at removing pops, clicks, thumps & even complete dropouts!! Although I feel like their broadband noise reduc has become outdated & no longer compares to newer more modern designs! (example: RX's BBNR blows it away now!).
As you can see that is not an easy question to answer!! But there are a lot of options out there now!
I probably mentioned this somewhere in this video, but most studio that do a lot of this kind of work, tend to have 2 or more options for performing noise reduction because depending on the problem you are trying to fix, one may work better than another for each task. I have both the RX, the Sonnox tools.
That being said, I prefer RX for many reasons. I like that it can run as a stand alone DAW of it's own, or as individual plugins within any DAW! The broadband noise reduc in RX is one of the best ones I've used & I can usually get a working result relatively quickly with it! the sample rate conversion in RX is also very nice & the batch processing makes tasks like that so simple & easy!!
OK, didn't mean to write a book here...but hard to say in only a few words...
Thanks again for watching!! Appreciate al the support!
WS
Thanks Warren, I'm going to check out the 'Denoiser' by Sonnox!
Hey guys ! RX Elements is on sale until 31 dec ! 29$ only, I'm purchasing it right now ! :)
Hi FSBass wow! That’s great! I didn’t know! I doubt if they know we did this video!! Haha
Where can one find those radial wall panels?
Can this work on wind noise on outdoor recordings? Or is it too wideband
Hi Steve Redwood great question! I asked the same question and yes, apparently it gets used a lot for that! Remarkable. However it's the 'Advanced' not the 'Standard' version that contains that function. Happy Holidays!
yes remarkable I've never been very successful using normal EQ, after see your comment looking further on iZotope RX website 'De-wind' is only available on the more expensive 'advanced' version.
Hi airwood, yes, it appears that although 90% of their functions are available in the 'Standard' they have an 'Advanced' that contains Dialog Isolation and De-Wind functions. Happy Holidays!
Hi Steve, thanks for watching!!
Short answer: YES it can.
Long answer: It depends on how loud the wind is compared to the intended audio & how much it changes throughout the recording.
One of the things that makes EQ & a lot of standard noise reduc tools fail at this kind of task is because wind is not a static noise, it is constantly changing in loudness, freq, strength (is it blowing so hard the mic's diaphragm distorting at times? etc...) & many other factors. So there is no single "noise fingerprint" that is going to make a reduction curve that works throughout the recording
That new "De-Wind' module is more than likely an automated algorithm that tracks the incoming sound based on your settings and then automatically adjusts itself the best it can according to what it is "hearing".
I am still running RX5 & it looks like De-Wind is new with RX6, so I have not actually given it a try yet
I also noticed they added a new "De-Rustle" module too, that helps reduce the noise made by lavaliere mics rubbing against shirts, etc!! WOW!
Most of the updates to RX6 are more geared toward audio-for-video post-production, so I have not upgraded mine yet.
Another thing RX Advanced includes in a very power-hungry module called "DeConstruct" that only has 3 controls (in ver 5).
1- Tonal gain (sounds you want to keep) / 2 - Noisy gain (noise you want reduced) / 3 - balance (what is considered tonal, or noisy components)
Looks like RX6 has added options for "Transient gain" & "Artifact smoothing" which I can only assume make this module even more powerful!
When a recoding is really heavy with noise, "DeConstruct" can work some real magic, but its heavy handed, so it's best kept for when that is truly needed!
Hope that helps?
WS
Wow!! Amazing info Warren S!! You Rock my friend!
This dude is the doppelganger of Harland Reesor Williams.
I think these two during the first pause in dialog from 13:56, were claps in the hands, not mouth clicks :)
Hi van Chesco I’m not sure? Maybe? Could be mic thumps of some description. Thanks for watching! Happy New Year!!
Could be, it can sometimes be hard to tell with something recorded over 20 years ago!
Thanks for watching!!
Yes indeed Warren! Happy New Year!
At min 17.00 he could have gotten away of that thump is he lowered the threshold to LF and increased the sensitivity to 8. Interpolate is good, but it takes into account both sides of the problematic event, which sometimes might not match, so therefor compromise the restoration.
Hi Emil Dragomirescu thanks for the insight! Yes, this is a small section of a much bigger course identifying lots of problems! Thanks for your great marvellous comment!!
Oh by all means i didn't want it to sound like a remark, but more like an alternative take on how to approach the subject! I for one I am happy to finally see this class! I'm sure it would benefit even me ;)
Hi Emil Dragomirescu that’s quite alright! I really appreciate great informative comment like yours! We have an amazing community here that helps each other! Happy Holidays!
Hi Emil, thanks for watching!!
Like WH mentioned this is a small preview clip of a full course & your point is part of most things covered. Especially with noise reduction & cleanup there are probably 100 different ways to approach a solution & during the course there are multiple times where it is shown that an "acceptable" result can be achieved using technique-A. But a better result can be achieved using technique-B instead.
Audio Restoration is always a experiment to find how best to fix each individual problem & that does not alwasy mean fixing them in the same way, or with the same tool!
Thanks for your comment
WS
Thanks for the great detail Warren S!!
I can’t use this with studio one
Special thanks to 'The Warrens' Hahahaha
Haha thanks Apple! Yes, Warren S is great!
The Reaper DAW can literally do this out of the box. Feature called spectral editing.
Hi Michael Bach that’s very cool! Thanks for the info! Happy Holidays!
RX is just the main tool I use in my mastering studio so that's what was used in this video. But there are a large number of quality noise reduction tools available out there! I mention this is the actual course & try to keep the info based more on the how & why so these techniques can be used on any system, not just RX.
Thanks for watching!!
WS
I was waiting to see how to fix tape drop out. But... It did not come.
Could one also remove the really annoying buzzing sound in the background? I think being able to get rid of that, would be my main goal...
Damn i wish he would get to the point
houw ken i ked pay voor my work piepel in de nerderlands dont want help my
Hi stuntel MAN there in the Netherlands! Definitely get your work out there through all mediums, have an amazing website, FB business page, SoundCloud, get your work heard by people! Best of luck to you! Happy Holidays!
The program there is for restoration
That recording was really crap though
No matter how good, eqing that kind of stuff to sound decent, takes ages
Hi vhollund indeed! I believe it was a really badly recorded two track, maybe even through a phone!! This kind of stuff is definitely very difficult to deal with!
Thanks for watching vhollund!!
Yes it was not in very good shape...but that was exactly why it was used during this course!!
It is a prime example of Audio Clean up rule #1....it's called Noise REDUCTION, not Noise REMOVAL for a reason!! A lot of times the best that can be achieved is lowering the noise to a point that your brain doesn't pay attention to it relative to the intended sounds! It can never be removed completely without added severe artifacts though, so just enough is the goal!
Thanks for your comment!!
WS
Exactly Warren! If it was extremely great sounding it wouldn't be a lot of use to show off the restoration process! Happy New Year!
I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Hi J. W. Ha ha I think that says something about what you see!! Happy Holidays!
J. W. What about the blue rinse? Ha
Produce Like A Pro blueberry pie?
Adam Spade yes!! Blueberry would be perfect!
Happy Christmas Warren and everyone involved!!! As promised: WHY NOT WE ALL GIVE WARREN SOMETHING BACK FOR HIS VERY HARD WORK THIS 2017 NOW WITH CHRISTMAS???? I politely ask all the subscribers ( Included myself) to donate 1 US dollar to Warrens paypalaccount, if he agrees and give us the PayPal adress....:) :) In this creative way we all can thank him and give him a boost, where he can grow even harder...:) Just my inner feelings guys and my freedom of expressing...:) Warm C-greetings, Jeroen.
Hi Jeroen Simons haha that’s very kind of you! I really appreciate your kind words!!
If anyone deserves a shocking stuffer like that it's certainly W Huart!! The man does not stop!! ;^)
Aw shucks thanks ever so much Warren S!! You Rock! Happy New Year!
did you just assume that thumps gender?! :triggered:
Hi Miguel Perez haha! Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays!!
Thanks for watching Miguel!! ;^)
Not sure what your question means?
Warren Sokol I am hoping it’s a form of humour! Have a marvellous new year!
Dude, this could have been a 5 minute video.
why don't u just get on with it
Notes from a forensic engineer, whom uses actual sonogram tools: a)there are mathematical rules to forensics which leads to your b) artifact problems after cleaning. That's because you are not oversampling. That may be due to the use of a c) consumer computer with a front side bus which can not facilitate the bandwidth needed for the resolutions required. D) there is no audible difference between linear and logarythmic measurements- they show you the energy of the sound present in different ways. .................... I've been giving the free PLAP masters actual track by track forensic cleanings. (the H3000 processor bleeds into your cables) I don''t know if I should be frustrated by a novice teaching my skills, or be happy that he's so far off with his experiments that my job will never be in peril. Love, as always.
Would you care to elaborate more on your forensics audio setup and workflow? The example Warren used is specifically for music or recovering old recordings. I presume you have a more sensitive job.
Indeed. I was also referring to forensics as they apply to music. Since I've been on paternity leave, I've applied my skill set to music and I believe this is my niche within the community. The answer to your question is too long/boring to type. I'll make a video that's more entertaining than the information already available on youtube.
The Stereopsist do that and i'll be glad to watch it!!
@@BigStereoVR I checked your channel and still no video. Would love to see you complete one.
@@rscotta831 truth! Between raising a kid with special needs, actually having real engineering work to do, and nobody able to watch VR video: this video is barely important enough to make. However, your interest has me interested!