Acon Acoustica Premium vs RX 9 Standard....?

[tonymax]

Hi,
wanting to improve some very old music recordings of my music and was wondering about anyone's thoughts on the above 2 production suites (can only afford RX standard not pro).
Ive not done much repair and enhancement and wonder what the pros and cons of both products are.

any other software that does the same?
both are on offer at the moment so was hoping to buy.

thanks for any help or inisght.

tony

Ps i have played with both softwares and find acoustica a lot easier on the eye and use whereas RX seems a little convoluted to get a similar level of useability. am i wrong? but it has beena little time playing

[Beachboy]

I think that Acon Acoustica Premium and RX 9 Standard are both great products. If you want to remove clicks, crackles, noise or hum they both do a great job. Since your question isn´t very detailed about what to improve it´s hard to recommend anything. What exactly do you want to improve? Is it crackles from a vinyl recording or wow/flutter from tape? Is it just noise? An improvement could also be some sort of remaster the recording. Maybe with a little more input more people will join the discussion.

[tonymax]

thanks beachboy,

i need to improve old recordings, no stems avaiable only the whole recorded track (they were done in a basic home studio 30yrs ago)
not so much hum/click/ some hiss, but overall sound quality like i was mixing again. enhance some recorded instruments and reduce some other frequencies that are masking overs frequencies.
does that make sense?

thsnks for any info

Tony

I think that Acon Acoustica Premium and RX 9 Standard are both great products. If you want to remove clicks, crackles, noise or hum they both do a great job. Since your question isn´t very detailed about what to improve it´s hard to recommend anything. What exactly do you want to improve? Is it crackles from a vinyl recording or wow/flutter from tape? Is it just noise? An improvement could also be some sort of remaster the recording. Maybe with a little more input more people will join the discussion.

[rasmusklump]

Acoustica does that very well.

[tonymax]

any video training for it...

Acoustica does that very well.

[Beachboy]

enhance some recorded instruments and reduce some other frequencies that are masking overs frequencies.

That´s quite difficult if you don´t have stems, especially with the masking frequencies. Maybe a starting point could be to use the Remix tool (or music rebalance in RX) to seperate some instruments and work on the created stems. The results depend on how dense the mix is and if the instruments could be seperated correctly but it´s worth a try.

[tonymax]

thanks beachboy, ill give that a go..

That´s quite difficult if you don´t have stems, especially with the masking frequencies. Maybe a starting point could be to use the Remix tool (or music rebalance in RX) to seperate some instruments and work on the created stems. The results depend on how dense the mix is and if the instruments could be seperated correctly but it´s worth a try.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I have both as well as Spectralayers and I agree with Beachboy. If your'e looking to clean up some noise, clips, crackles, then either option will do well. Both options have the ability to unmix items to stems, but they both will have some artifacts/bleed - and I wouldn't expect to do miracles with old recordings unless you had access to the original stems/tracks.

[Tj Shredder]

You can do miracles with Acoustica and if you add Acon’s Defilter to the formular you should be able to make it sound like a modern mix… The stem separation does only get you artifacts if overdone. If subtly changed the mix its quite usable…
The added bonus, its way cheaper than RX…

[tonymax]

all great advice, im having fun using both, acoustica seems to fit my way of thinking better, rx is also good, but I am also trying spectralayers from steinberg, seems more complex but that could be my simple mind...
thanks everyone for adding to the discussion..