This page contains reference information about this module. For more information on how to use Denoiser see the Users Guide.
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Denoiser is designed to reduce stationary noise, including broadband noise, in audio signals. Stationary noise can include tape hiss, microphone hum, power mains buzz, camera noise and other types of noise that do not change in level or spectral shape throughout the recording.
Training Denoiser:
Denoiser can learn the type of noise you want to remove from the recording to give you the best results. To train Denoiser, select a section of the recording that contains only noise and click Train. This will create a noise profile that Denoiser will use to process the recording. If you do not have a section of the recording that contains only noise, selecting a quiet region of the recording that contains mostly noise can also work.
Note: The noise profile will be valid only for the currently selected FFT size, current sampling rate and number of channels. If either of these parameters changes, the noise profile should be re-collected with the updated parameters for accurate noise reduction results.
Noise Spectrum Display:
The Noise Spectrum display shows useful information during both playback and when the noise reduction process is being applied.
Color Legend
- Purple curve (Input) - spectrum of input audio signal
- Yellow curve (Output) - spectrum of denoised (output) audio signal
- Blue curve (Noise Profile) - equals learned noise profile + threshold elevation control
- White curve (Residual Noise) - desired noise floor after denoising, can be controlled by Reduction and Residual whitening controls (Advanced mode only)
Scrolling and Zooming - by grabbing and moving the horizontal and vertical rulers, you can adjust what part of the graph is shown. In addition, holding the pointer above a ruler and using your mouse wheel will zoom the display in and out.
Simple Mode controls:
- Algorithm - affects the quality and computational complexity of the noise reduction. This selection directly affects CPU usage.
- Noise Reduction (dB) - controls the desired amount of noise suppression in decibels.
- Artifact Suppression - helps minimize 'musical noise' artifacts introduced during the noise reduction process.
- Output Noise Only - outputs the difference between the original and processed signals (suppressed noise)
Advanced Mode controls:
Threshold (tonal/broadband) - controls the separation of noise and useful signal levels.
Higher threshold settings reduce more noise, but also suppress low-level signal components. Lower threshold preserves low-level signal details, but can result in noise being modulated by the signal. Threshold elevation can be done separately for tonal and random noise parts. A good default is 0 dB.
Reduction (tonal/broadband) - controls the desired amount of noise suppression in decibels.
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Denoiser can automatically separate noise into tonal parts (such as hum, buzz or interference) and random parts (such as hiss). The user can specify the amount of suppression for these parts separately (e.g. in some situations it can be desirable to reduce only unpleasant buzz while leaving unobjectionable constant hiss). Strong suppression of noise can also degrade low-levels signals, so it's recommended to apply only as much suppression as needed for reducing the noise to levels where it becomes less objectionable.
Musical noise suppression - controls the reduction of artifacts known as 'musical noise'.
Musical noise is caused by random statistical variations of noise spectrum that cause random triggering of sub-band gates resulting in 'metallic' or 'space monkey' sounds. The control synchronizes triggering of noise gates in time and in frequency and makes gates sensitive only to larger sound events eliminating small random variations. Too high values of this slider can produce muffled sound and suppress minor details in the useful signal.
Residual Whitening - modifies the amount of noise reduction (shown by light blue curve) applied at different frequencies to shape the spectrum of the residual noise.
When residual whitening is zero, the suppression is uniform at all frequencies, as controlled by Reduction (tonal/broadband) sliders, and the suppressed noise has a similar spectral shape to the original noise. When residual whitening is maximal, the desired shape of suppressed noise floor is made close to white, so that residual noise has more neutral sound.
RX Advanced Only controls:
MNS algorithm - selects the smoothing algorithm for the removal of random ripples that can occur in the spectrogram when processing your audio. These sounds are referred to as 'musical noise' and can be described as sounding 'watery'.
The strength of smoothing is controlled by the 'Musical noise suppr.' slider.
- Simple algorithm performs independent noise gating in every frequency channel of FFT. Release time of sub-band gates is controlled by the Release control. This is a fast algorithm with small latency that is suitable for real-time operation.
- Advanced and Extreme algorithms perform joint time-frequency analysis of the audio signal which results in better quality and less 'musical noise' artifacts. These algorithms have higher latency and computational complexity.
FFT size (ms) - selects the time and frequency resolution of the processing. Higher FFT sizes give you more frequency bands allowing you to cut noise between closely spaced signal harmonics, or cut steady-state noise harmonics without affecting adjacent signals. Lower FFT sizes allow for faster response to changes in the signal and produces less noisy echoes around transient events in the signal.
Note: Whenever FFT size is changed, it's recommended that the user retrain the Denoiser's noise profile because the old noise profile was taken at a different FFT size and therefore becomes inaccurate.
Multi-resolution (checkbox) - enables multi-resolution for the selected algorithm type
When you select the 'Multi-resolution' checkbox, the signal is analyzed in real time and the most appropriate FFT size is chosen for each segment of the signal. This is done to minimize the smearing of transients and at the same time achieve high frequency resolution where it is needed.
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Note: The FFT size control does not have any affect in multi-resolution mode as the FFT resolution is selected automatically. The noise profile does not need to be re-learned when switching to Multi-resolution mode.
Knee sharpness - controls how surgical the algorithm's differentiation is between the signal and noise.
This slider controls the bending 'knee' softness in the denoising process. With higher values, transitions in the denoiser are more abrupt and can become prone to errors in the detection of the signal with respect to the noise. When the sharpness is reduced, the denoising becomes more forgiving around the knee, and applies less attenuation to signals that are only slightly below the threshold. This may result in a lower depth of noise reduction, but can also have fewer artifacts.
Release (ms) - selects the release time of sub-band noise gates in milliseconds
Longer release times can result in less musical noise, but may also reduce or soften the signals initial transients or reverb tails after the signals decay.
Note: The Release control is only available when the 'Simple' MNS Algorithm is selected.
Psychoacoustic suppression - enables a psychoacoustic model that dynamically controls suppression amount to facilitate the use of softer suppression where noise is subjectively inaudible. When noise in certain regions is calculated to be inaudible, this feature prevents any signal processing in these regions. This potentially reduces amount of processing done to the signal and may positively affect overall signal integrity. The position of the slider controls the influence of psychoacoustic model on suppression levels.
Note:When this slider is set to 0, the feature is turned off, and the amount of noise suppression is uniformly governed to the white curve in spectrum analyzer (more precisely - by the difference between the white curve and blue curve).
Harmonic enhancement - predicts a signals harmonic structure and places less noise reduction in areas where possible signal harmonics could be buried in noise. This aids in at least preserving high-frequency signal harmonics that may be buried and not detected otherwise. It can make the resulting signal brighter and more natural sounding, but high values of harmonic enhancement can also result in high-frequency noise being modulated by the signal.
Additional Denoiser Features:
- Noise Suppression Envelope - This feature allows for fine tuning of the noise suppression envelope with up to 26 edit points. This enables the user to customize the amount of noise reduction being applied across different frequency regions.
- Add an edit point - Left-click, displayed as gray box along envelope curve
- Remove an edit point - Right-click (CTRL click on Mac) or drag it outside the screen
- Envelope Show - This controls whether or not the suppression envelope points are visible or hidden. The modified envelope will always be applied even when edit points are hidden.
- Envelope Reset - This will remove all edit points.
- Envelope Smoothing- This controls the amount of interpolation between your suppression envelope points, allowing for sharper or more gradual envelopes.
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With their hefty low–frequency content, vocal plosives are obvious as the blobs at the bottom of the spectral display.
The latest version of iZotope’s RX adds some interesting features — but do they have musical applications?
Restoration software of a kind which is relatively easy to use and which gives decent results is a comparatively new sector of the music software market. Someone will tell me that the DeNoise module in Sonic Solutions was probably in the vanguard here, but my own first encounter with this class of tool was CEDAR Retouch, fitted as an optional extra in the SADiE system which we used to record, edit and master classical recordings a decade ago. It was expensive, but invaluable: recording engineers’ nightmares such as piano pedal thumps, piano stool creaks, even lip smacks and the occasional cough no longer demanded a re–take, but could be eliminated, or substantially reduced, in post–production.
I originally bought iZotope RX2 to do some fairly heavy restoration work on a series of 1970s live operas that I was remastering for issue on DVD and accompanying CD. Sod’s Law dictated that the job came in just after I’d sold my SADiE system, and the built–in Spectral Cleaning facility in Magix’s Sequoia could not do all that was needed. Other offerings were beyond the budget, so RX2 fitted the bill perfectly, and I still think that the Advanced version is a whole lot of professional software solution for a relatively small outlay. Only after those projects were completed did I begin to realise how tightly woven into my mastering approach it would become.
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In For Repairs
I have now been using iZotope RX2 since it was released in 2010. Apart from the DAW itself, it is the one piece of software that I have found to be indispensable, and I have used it on pretty much every mastering session. RX can play almost any file, and has frequently opened recalcitrant formats which had standard DAWs flummoxed. It has exceedingly good sample–rate conversion (with MBit+ dithering) and, of course, it can repair sonic damage, ameliorating those bad–luck moments in live recordings and unnoticed horrors in studio recordings which cannot be recalled and undone. Even with projects that did not call for large–scale restoration work, it was good to be able to identify such momentary irritations as vocal glitches, the base of a mic stand being kicked, the studio cat, mic capsule distortions, clunks, coughs and so on, and quickly brush them aside. And that was only the Spectral Repair feature, which provides a highly informative visual interface for spotting and addressing these problems.
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In my mastering suite, with its revealing acoustics and speakers with extended bass response, I often encounter vocal plosives and very fast transient clicks that have been missed by the client and the engineer. The pictures show how these look in the RX4 main display: the click is shown in Linear mode, as digital clicks have content across the whole frequency spectrum, while the vocal pop is shown in Extended Log mode because plosives have a great deal of low–end content. Each of these issues took just a few seconds to eliminate entirely in RX4: lasso the problem area, press ‘R’ for repair, and the offending item is attenuated to inaudibility. More complex problem sounds have more complex repair modes, but with a little experience, they are barely any more difficult to implement.
A rogue click is clearly visible in RX4’s spectral display.
It’s worth noting that iZotope present RX as software that can find application across all kinds of audio work. However, although many of the features of RX that I find useful when working with musical content are also useful for non–music audio work, the converse doesn’t always apply. In other words, there are some tools in RX which are very useful in non–musical applications, yet have less immediate use in music production. iZotope themselves sort the modules according to function, into Restoration, Production and Utility groups.
Three: The Magic Number
Late in 2013, iZotope released version 3 of RX. Not only did RX3 sport an entirely new, and very much more ergonomically optimised user interface, but it also included interesting new modules in all of the functional groups, and several previously Advanced–only features were incorporated into the much more affordable Standard version. As these included the excellent sample–rate conversion algorithms, this made the standard version of RX very much more attractive to a wider base of music engineers. Hugh Robjohns reviewed RX3 in full in the February 2014 issue (www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb14/articles/izotope–rx3.htm), so I don’t want to repeat too much of what was said then here, but it is worth re–emphasising the gist of the conclusion of that review, which was that RX3 is a worthwhile investment for anyone involved in professional music production, and that the upgrade from RX2 was also, as they say, a no–brainer.
In RX4 another advanced module, the Dialogue Denoiser, has made the same migration to Standard. iZotope are wise to have this divide, as not every engineer will need the Advanced–only functions, which are often quite specialised — and as I think the Advanced version is good value for money, this makes the Standard Version a bit of a bargain.
Pillar To Post–production
If RX3 represented quite a large leap forward from RX2, then RX4 is a smaller step in the same direction. New features include Clip Gain and a Clip Leveler, which do pretty much what their names suggest; less standard, and potentially more interesting, are features and modules such as RX Connect (see box), EQ Match and Ambience Match.
I mentioned earlier that some of RX’s existing features are targeted mainly at non–musical applications, and in fact, the two new modules in RX4 probably fall into this category. Ambience Match is not, despite the name, a convolution reverb, or indeed any kind of reverb. And while EQ matching — the idea of capturing the frequency responses of source and target tracks, and computing an EQ curve to make the former sound like the latter — arguably has a place in mastering and music production, the EQ Match feature in RX4 is so basic as to be of limited use. It is nothing like as sophisticated as Harbal (www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb13/articles/harbal-3.htm), nor even the Matching EQ feature in iZotope’s own Ozone mastering software. In the latter, the capture process produces visual curves for the overall EQ and difference EQ changes which can be overlaid to allow them to be compared and, if necessary, modified. EQ Match in RX is a greatly simplified form of this. The screenshot shows the UI dialogue, and the manual is quite succinct: after you have opened the EQ Match module, it tells you to “make a selection in a file; click Learn; make another selection; click Process.”
RX4’s EQ Match feature is more basic than its counterpart in iZotope’s own Ozone mastering software.
For musical needs, I would say that this implementation falls short of being really useful. Most music engineers would want much more information and much more control over EQ changes applied to their tracks. But as I’ve indicated, this module is probably more likely intended for certain non–musical applications where such immediacy (and very good results given the simplicity) is an advantage in itself. I can illustrate this better by introducing the Ambience Match module at this point and showing how they operated together when I revisited an audio–book project I worked on last year.
Voices & Choices
The main recording for the audio book, which featured a number of different voices, was done in a London hotel. But then sometime later editing changes were made to the text itself, and so certain passages of the book had to be re–recorded. Some of this took place in my own small studio in Norfolk, using the mic with which we’d recorded the originals; but one particular reader could not travel that far, so recorded the changes at a more convenient local facility with a different microphone and sent me the results to be edited in. At the time, this gave me an awful lot of extra work to do. There were clearly mismatches of vocal tone and also background ‘room tone’ (low–level ambient sound), and though I could EQ the vocal sound to minimise the differences, the only way I could make sure that there was no clearly audible difference in the rooms was to cut a small piece of room tone from the very beginning of the original recording, edit it to a usable length and mix it in, ducking it with the vocals. It worked just about well enough, but it took an awful long time.
For the purposes of this review, I revisited this nightmare with RX4 and it took me 15 minutes. Though the voices were the same, the use of different spaces, placements, mics and preamps meant there were tonal differences between the original and later recordings. The original recording was warmer and smooth, the re–recording to edit in was less so in both regards — but the RX4 EQ Match module made a very passable attempt to live up to its name, and I think I would have been happy to use the result had I had the chance to do so.
The new Ambience Match feature is designed to ensure that room tone can be made consistent when editing together recordings from different sources.
The room tone was very different between the two versions: although the original recordings were not exactly noisy, there was a very specific ‘hotel room’ sound to the silence, with a faint air–con motoring away somewhere in the basement. The re–recordings, made in recording studios, had much quieter, almost silent backgrounds, and this was easily perceptible when the original section segued into the edit. This is where Ambience Match came in. As you can see from the screenshot, it has the same minimalist interface as EQ Match. Fingerprinting the room tone from the original and adding it to new edits was very easy, and it took just a couple of experimental passes to get the level right. I had hoped that Ambience Match was going to be rather more — conceptually, it’s really just the Denoise module working in reverse, as the manual almost admits — but fitting horses to courses enabled it to show its proper strength. It also found a use in classical editing: many producers still insist that recordings do not fade to digital silence between movements and between separate pieces, so the editor has to edit in room tone recorded at the beginning of the session to give the illusion of a continuing live recital (ha!). Editing virtual silences together is a pastime for the seventh circle of Hell, so Ambience Match could be a real boon there.
Conclusion
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As I have made clear, I find iZotope RX4 indispensable in almost every post–production project, including mastering and its manifold responsibilities. I also think the asking price is not a great deal for a professional facility to pay for a professional product, and that the ‘missing’ features of the Standard version that allow it to be offered pretty much at bargain price are less likely to be missed by music users. So RX4 is a great upgrade for users of RX2, and a great buy for those who are yet to feel the love at all. But is it a good upgrade for present users of RX3? I think it all depends on just how much use can be made by the purchaser of the half–dozen or so substantial new features. For those in film and speech post–production, this might be all of them; for some, like myself, who specialise in music but have a serious sideline in speech and restoration, that might be two or three; but for some music–only facilities, it might not be quite enough to justify the move just yet.
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Only Connect
It is possible to use iZotope RX in two different ways: as an adjunct to a DAW, or in stand–alone mode. Even in RX2, there was already a facility which enabled Spectral Repair as a plug–in from within a DAW. In RX4 this has been replaced by a more fully featured ‘round trip’ capability called RX Connect. The idea is that, without leaving your DAW, you can either send a clip from your DAW for Analysis in RX (a one–way ticket) or you can send it for Repair and then return it to the DAW (a two–way ticket). One issue that can arise is that if your DAW does not ‘surrender’ its audio channels to RX when that is operating, then nothing routed through RX can be monitored. Enter an ingenious solution called RX Monitor, which gets around this problem by operating in the DAW as a virtual instrument through which the RX output can be played via the DAW’s non–surrendered channels.
I tried RX Connect in a mastering context, and it worked as advertised, but because there were a few menu items to negotiate and you need to pre-open the stand-alone version of RX, I found that it was just as easy for me to minimise the DAW, open RX in stand-alone mode, and work directly on the WAV file. Things changed dramatically, though, when I was working on a classical editing project where the fragments of music to be edited together were drawn from up to 100 different takes, hence 100 different WAV files. When doing this kind of work in the past, the technique I use now when mastering would not have been viable, as it would have meant opening all of those 100 different files, rather than the single one being worked on in mastering. Instead, I would deal with noises and suchlike by noting their time position in the overall piece, compiling the final edit and only then going to RX. It never occurred to me that there could be a better way — but this is where RX Connect starts to make much more sense. A process that is relatively unwieldy when compared to opening the stand-alone version for occasional work on a single WAV file becomes the clear winner when compared to opening and searching in 100 or more separate audio files! And also, as often happens, what seems a bit awkward when you are consciously concentrating on each step in the process becomes second nature and much easier as familiarity and muscle memory kicks in. Of course, there was a time when making up a DDPi file seemed like a lot of work...
Pros
- Better integration for those who like to carry out their restoration tasks within a DAW.
- EQ and Ambience Match can help when you need to edit together recordings made under different circumstances.
- Still offers excellent value for money.
Cons
- The new features are arguably more useful in post–production than in music work.
Summary
RX4 is a worthy update to perhaps the best–value restoration package on the market, though it perhaps won’t be an essential one for users who work only with music recordings.
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RX4 £215; RX4 Advanced £729.02. Prices include VAT.
RX4 $349; RX4 Advanced $1199.