Whats the best noise reduction plug-in?

[Feltch Academy]

I'm after something that analyses a section of "noise" then scans and removes it from the rest of the recording.
I know about the sound soap one - is there anything else as good, or better?

[C00kie]

Adobe Audition features a rather good one. Search the forum on "noise reduction", 'cause this is a regularly recurring question.

[JonnySun 2.0]

ReNOVAtor

[kylen]

Adobe Audition features a rather good one.

Good choice C00kie! It is VERY good on hum. For most broadband noise (non-hum or clicks) I use Voxengo Redunoise. For clicks there's a thing in Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 10 that I use. And for record pops & clicks I use the Audition plugin called Click-Fix which really kills 'em all.
Tools of choice...2cents

[sgx]

Any free plugins that do this? I'm recording some really old tapes of my grandfather playing trumpet with his jazz band onto my computer so that I can back them up digitally. There's some nasty hiss pops from the tape though. Any suggestions?

[akisd28]

Try Virtos Denoiser - it's relatively cheap and works great.

[emdot_ambient]

Any free plugins that do this? I'm recording some really old tapes of my grandfather playing trumpet with his jazz band onto my computer so that I can back them up digitally. There's some nasty hiss pops from the tape though. Any suggestions?

Try to find a copy of the demo version of Cool Edit 96. It's the predesessor to Cool Edit Pro, which was bought out by Adobe and renamed Audition. Its tape noise reduction was still really good. In fact . . . I'm still using that on my stuff. If you check out my web site, the 3 parts of Until The Isban Moon were run through it as they were originally recorded to multi-track reel-to-reel. They suffered originally not only from hum but also channel bleed. They came out really pristine (of course, I've added additional treatment to them as well . . . but anyway I had to get a plug in for my stie!).

[jdahlb]

Not free, but cheap considering what you're getting: Virtos Noise Wizard. Has noise reduction, click and hum removal.

www.virtos-audio.com

It's only DirectX, though.

Jorgen.

[ugo]

i've found that it depends on the type and amount of noise you want to get rid of. personally i use both sound soap and noise wizard.

sound soap is great at minimizing or removing truly horrendous amounts of noise...like wind, cars and bugs from outdoor recordings or a really loud 60 cycle hum. the downside is that it colors the hell out of the tone, and the more you use it the worse that gets. but if you need to reduce some really miserable amounts of noise, it can do the job well.

noise wizard does a fantastic job at removing more minor amounts of noise while retaining the quality and tone of your source audio. the downside is that if you ask it to remove some heavy duty noise, it distorts. (probably because its trying so hard to retain the important frequencies.)

so for the removal of the average minor line noise and light background stuff picked up by a mic, noise wizard is the better choice. but if you need the noise reduction equivalent of a sledgehammer, check out sound soap.

-ugo

[PeterL]

Voxengo Redunoise: Very good quality to a good price.
You have asked for the best: It's Renovator (link above), but it's very expensive (2490 EUR).

[casio hardcore]

Waves X-Noise hands down.

[Inukshuk]

You should definitly check out tc's Restoration Suite". Very high end and transparent.

[verstaerker]

don't remove the noise - use it as part of the music

[Feltch Academy]

don't remove the noise - use it as part of the music

its a recording of wolves howling with a fecking waterfall in the foreground- its for client and he just wants the wolves

[Feltch Academy]

thanks guys you have given me lots to go on