Feb 18, 2016 Learn more at As part of the RX Plug-in Pack, the Dialogue De-noise plug-in clean up noisy voice and dialogue tracks. This is a special offer for users of iZotope RX Plug-in Pack to upgrade to RX 7 Elements at a reduced cost. Call your Sales Engineer for more details. IZotope RX 7 Elements is loaded with powerful restoration tools: Repair Assistant uses machine learning to solve common audio issues faster than ever.
- What Is Izotope Rx Plugin Package
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- Sound Quality
- Ease of use
- Features
- Bang for buck
- Overall:
- Software: RX Plug-In Pack
- Developer: iZotope
- Formats: VST, AU and AAX plug-ins for Mac and Windows.
- Price: $129 USD (US Dollars - MSRP)
- Demo: Fully functional for 14 days
- DRM: iLok (USB dongle not required)
- Website: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/...-plug-in-pack/
What Is Izotope Rx Plugin Package
The scope:
iZotope has decided to detach four modules from its RX Audio Editor to make a nice plugin package covering some basics aspects of audio repair available on a small budget. The RX Plugin Package offers the renowned RX modules to repair clipped audio, clicks, hum and mid-high range noise, all with the quality that made RX one of the most widely-used set of tools of the industry. Since I’ve recently reviewed the RX Audio Editor, I’ll quote myself on what I’ve said about these modules on my RX5 review since they’re exactly the same - then I'll move on to the scores and closing thoughts.
- De-clip: RX’s tool to deal with distortion problems is absurdly good and does some miracles on even the hottest and most clipped recordings you can come across. The layout is very intuitive and hard to get wrong, with some visual aid on the material’s amplitude, so it’s just a matter of setting the clipping level you want to address with the threshold slider and be amazed by the results! De-clip also features an optional make-up gain control and a peak limiter to keep things safe. Arguably one of the useful tools in RX’s arsenal and one that will likely get a lot of use when your sources are less than ideal, De-clip is a life saver. I found that applying it multiple times instead of going for a huge hit leads to better results and I couldn’t believe most things I was doing! Please ponderate my excitement a little bit and keep things in context within reason - this module will not save badly clipped mixes on a mastering situation, although it can definitely make them a lot more bearable and workable.
- De-click: Another miracle-maker, the De-click module can do a hell lot more than just plain click-removal. Along with the De-plosive module this is one of the best tools to deal with problematic sounds from syllables with “Ps” and “Bs” - just set the click type to “thump” and make things right! When used for it's meant purposes, it is simply the best solution I’ve found to this day to deal with a lot of flexible options to deal with all sorts of clicks, crackles, thumps and all sorts of short-bursts of crappiness that might’ve plagued a recording. I got very effect results using the frequency skew to nudge it towards low or high frequency attenuations and with the click widening options, which set operating length in milliseconds for the processing. It’s so effect that it’s scary, and it manages to remove the undesired and only the undesired, leaving the rest of the content rather untouched. A real lifesaver that could very well be a plugin on its own without any fear of the competition.
- De-hum: A set of notch and high-pass filters for cutting out electrical noise. The notch filters can act as cut-only parametric bands and the high-pass filter also features a variable slope, so in that regard De-hum can serve as general purpose and simple to use equalizer with all the quality one expects from iZotope.
- De-noise*/Dialog De-noise (*only Dialog De-noise is available on the RX Pug-in Pack): Another one that could definitely be a plugin on its own and it would be a very competitive entry in the noise-reduction segment. Extremely effective and versatile, coming in two operating modes: a broadband mode with the entire frequency spectrum and dialog/speech mode that is optimized for the frequency range of a human voice - this last mode also reveals itself as an excellent tool for removing or attenuating hiss from any kind recording, not only dialog. In that regard, I’ve found myself using Dialog De-noise a whole lot more since most of my noise problems occurred in the top end and on few occasions I had to resort to the full-spectrum mode.
Sound Quality - 5/5:
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The quality of these modules is second to none, RX is widely-adopted by professionals around the globe and that should tell us something about how good they are. I’d highlight the miracle-makers De-clip and Dialog De-noise but the quality of the De-click and De-hum are also very high. Great tools to have around as they provide a out of situations that would otherwise require a new recording altogether - something everybody knows is not always possible or feasible to do.
Features - 4/5: The RX Plugin Pack is a well-rounded product that will serve well on first-aid rescue missions and also capable of tackling further damage done to a recording. From my experience clipping and hiss are two of the most common problems and the pack readily addresses that. It also deals with the undesired clicks and electrical humming which are also frequent occurrences, so all around the plugin pack can deal with a good number of situations. My only complaint here is not about “product” feature per se - I miss an upgrade path to RX, which would put the Plugin Pack as an affordable entry step, something a lot of people would likely welcome.
Ease of use - 4/5: Very effective and simple interfaces combined with very powerful processing makes these modules a breeze to use. They’re intuitive and very well-documented so it’s quite easy to achieve excellent results and the recently launched RX Cookbook website also helps a lot and serves as a good learning source for these plugins. A couple of potential problems will arise if you want to use the De-click and De-clip as real-time plugins on your DAW mixer as they add a ton of latency (over 30k samples with the De-click). Dialog De-noise is latency free, although a bit taxing on the CPU as expected. The plugins can also be used offline on most DAWs and as a general guideline it’s advisable to commit and render what you want to free up computing power and keep latencies in check.
Bang for buck - 5/5: I’d say that De-clip and Dialog De-noise alone are already enough reasons to get the pack, add to that the effective De-clip and De-hum as icing on the cake and the RX pack is a great acquisition if you’re not covered in the audio-repair front.
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