Favourite Plug-Ins: Free Gems, Old Friends, and AI Tools
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Favourite Plug-Ins: Free Gems, Old Friends, and AI Tools

This week on The Pro Audio Suite, the team open up their plug-in folders and share their favourites — from free finds to trusty old processors and some surprising new AI tools. Robbo kicks things off with TDR Nova, a free dynamic EQ/multiband compressor that’s perfect for VO artists working in home studios. Robert digs back into his bag of tricks with Waves C4/C6, still unbeatable for multiband control after all these years. George brings Acon Extract Dialog to the table, showing how modern AI can pull voices cleanly from noisy recordings. Along the way, we debate noise reduction chains, “less is more” processing, and why not every AI fix is the magic bullet people think it is. If you’re looking for plug-ins that actually help (without emptying your wallet), this one’s for you. 🏷 Hashtags / Tags voiceover, plugins, audio plugins, vst plugins, audio production, pro tools, audition, twisted wave, waves audio, izotope, acon digital, tokyo dawn records, tdr nova, waves c4, multiband compressor, de esser, noise reduction, clarity vx, source connect, home studio, podcast editing, pro audio suite 🙌 Credits The Pro Audio Suite is proudly sponsored by TriBooth (use code TRIPAP200 for $200 off) and Austrian Audio — Making Passion Heard.
Recorded via Source Connect. Edited by Andrew Peters. Mixed by Robbo.
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Yeah.

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If you can be bothered making one.

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Now today we're going to talk about plug

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-ins.

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But I thought we'd start with Robbo.

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What's your favourite plug-in, Robbo?

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You're going to start with me?

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Yeah.

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Well, look, it's not my favourite.

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But I'll talk about one that I came

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across.

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And just quickly, I started this little thing

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with myself on a Friday afternoon.

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Where I've set aside two hours in the

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afternoon.

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And I have to go and download a

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plug-in I've never used before.

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And it can be something I've heard about.

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Or something I've just discovered on the web.

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And I have to open up a session

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from something that I've done this week.

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And I have to find a way to

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use it.

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So it's kind of been this little.

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It's really opened a whole bunch of things

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for me.

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Like creativity-wise and sort of learning about

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stuff.

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So look, this isn't a game-changing one.

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But this is one that might change the

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game for someone with a home studio.

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A voiceover artist.

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I discovered this thing.

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It actually got recommended to me by Toby

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Ricketts.

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I'd never heard of it before.

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But George knew of it.

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It's called TDM Nova.

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And it's just a free, George, basically multiband

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compressor sort of thing.

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Yeah, it's actually TDR, which stands for Tokyo

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Dawn Records.

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Yes.

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I guess it's a record label or a

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record production, music production company.

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I don't know where the name came from.

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But TDR Novas.

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And it's, yeah, they have a free version.

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It has a four-band, what I would

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call a dynamic EQ.

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Yeah, with a high-pass and low-pass

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as well.

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It's really useful.

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It's very cool.

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I've been playing around with it.

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And if you're sort of a voiceover artist

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with a home studio who, I don't know,

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like we were talking about before, maybe there's

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some room resonances or a bit of de

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-essing or something like that that you want

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to try to get rid of.

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Yeah, it would actually be, from what I've

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found from playing with it, more than adequate

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to do the job.

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And it's free.

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So that's no game-changer.

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But for this show, I reckon that's a

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pretty good one.

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Because everyone's out there looking for free stuff.

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So TDR Novas.

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TDR Nova, as in over the radio station

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here in Sydney, yeah.

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Yeah, I will give a plus one on

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that too.

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I use that one for all the folks

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who do not have any good de-essers

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and other tools that are kind of weak

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in the toolbox.

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It works as a plug-in in Audacity.

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It works in Twisted Wave.

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It works in everything.

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And especially on Twisted Wave, there's no de

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-essers that come with an Apple audio unit

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plug-in suite.

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You know, when you get an Apple computer,

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it comes with a decent usable suite of

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plug-ins, but it's missing a few things,

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specifically a de-esser.

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It's got a multiband.

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It's got a multiband.

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I have a really tough time getting a

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really satisfactory result using the multiband.

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I just haven't mastered using it for de

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-essing and stuff.

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Even though it's got a really nice looking

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GUI for its multiband.

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Yeah, it ain't bad.

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Considering it's free and it comes on every

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Mac.

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Well, it might sound like shit, but at

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least it looks good.

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Yeah, that's the most important thing.

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Yeah, that's more important.

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But TDR does a surprisingly nice job.

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It's not an easy plug-in.

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You know, some plug-ins that you pay

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a lot of money for, they're expensive because

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they're highly tuned and specific and made to

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be easy as humanly possible.

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That's true.

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So some plug-ins that are free, they

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do it for free because either one, they're

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super simplistic, or two, they're powerful, but they

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have a big learning curve.

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And TDR is one of those.

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One thing I did miss, and maybe I

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don't know whether I missed it or whether

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it's just not there, but a solo on

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each of the bands as you're going through

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would be nice.

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I don't believe it has.

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Now, they have a pro version of the

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plug-in.

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That's how they monetize.

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Ah, okay, there you go.

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So it's got more bands, more functions, and

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it may have that.

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That may have that.

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So if you like it that much, it

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might be worth getting the pro version.

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Ah, I've got enough EQs.

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Yeah, I know, right?

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But yeah, nice.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Very good, though.

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There you go.

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That's my tip.

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Robert, you got one?

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Yeah, I was thinking, like, what plug-in

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am I going to say?

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And one of the thoughts that went through

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my head was, number one, I have a

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lot of plug-ins, and I keep on

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using for the last 30 years pretty much

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a lot of the same plug-ins.

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And I was thinking, like, there's all these

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new plug-ins, but really whatever you're doing,

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mixing music or whatnot, you basically need three

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types of plug-ins to do most everything

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you need.

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You need a good EQ, a good compressor,

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a delay, and a reverb.

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And you can get most everything you need

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to get done with those things.

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And then I was thinking, what's that one

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plug-in that I use a lot and

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that's really useful?

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And I've said it before, and I use

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the crap out of Wave C4.

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It's a multi-band compressor.

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I use it like an EQ.

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It can expand and compress.

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So it's a multi-band processor, but I

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will find myself often compressing the very high

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end as a de-esser.

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And I'll take the low end, and I'll

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expand it to make someone sound more chesty

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and big.

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And then in the middle, you compress it,

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and that gets it out of the way

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of a lot of this stuff.

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And it's just two things in one.

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And I would agree that if you know

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your way around a multi-band processor, a

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multi-band dynamics processor, whatever you want to

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call it, a multi-band compressor or a

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dynamic EQ, the lines between these devices are

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very blurred in a sense.

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You can get a lot done with one

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plug-in if you have a multi-band

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device like that that's dynamics and deals with

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the frequencies.

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So I've been using for years the crap

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out of Wave C4.

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But I'd also agree that there's many.

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To go way, way, way back in time,

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if you remember, actually Antares, the people that

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make Auto-Tune, they used to have a

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plug-in called MDT, which was a multi...

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah, you are going back.

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I don't know if you remember that one.

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Way, way back in the day.

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I mean, back in the sound designer two

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days.

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But that was one of the first.

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And I used to use that a lot

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for mastering.

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So yeah, multi-band dynamic processors, they're super

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useful.

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And one device can do three things at

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once if you know your way around it.

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The other nice one is if you can

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sidechain them too, so sidechain your voiceover to

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the music bed or whatever and sort of

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carve a nice little hole in there too

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underneath your voiceover in the mix.

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So Waves C6 lets you sidechain a particular

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band.

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Like one of the bands can be sidechained.

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You would use that middle frequency range that

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you were talking about in that case for

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your mix.

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Exactly, yep.

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You always love it when the client picks

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a music track with like a, I don't

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know, is it a tenor saxophone that's in

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that voiceover range or whatever, you know?

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And you're sort of like, oh, fuck, all

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these frequencies all in the same fucking place.

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You know, it's like Jesus.

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And it's mixed smack dab in the middle.

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It's not even far out left and right.

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Yeah, that's right.

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It's not even on the sides.

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Yeah, it's like, fuck!

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You arsehole.

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Is there a better track, do you reckon?

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Maybe that's a good AI plug-in that

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they should make, is this like D-Sax.

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D-Sax.

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Or like D-Kenny G.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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D-Kenny.

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It's the D-Kenny plug-in.

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Kenny G banger.

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Kenny G banger.

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That's what my wife wears on a Saturday

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night.

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Yeah, lucky you.

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That's why you have so many kids.

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You're using a multiband, or that's one you've

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found?

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And George?

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Well, TDR, as I said, it's great.

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And the one that I've been, I haven't

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used nearly as extensively as I maybe should.

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But I have recommended and set it up

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for a few folks.

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There's a lesser known company in a similar

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vein to iZotope called Akon, A-C-O

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-N.

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They've been around, they stood the test of

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time.

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And, you know, their plug-ins are quite

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nice, and they're doing their particular deal right

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now, so it's not a bad time to

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buy plug-ins.

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It says summer sale now, up to 70

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% off on their website.

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The one that I've been enjoying and finding

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easy to use, not overly expensive, and very

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effective, is their Extract Dialog.

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It's a weird name.

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It doesn't sound like it'd be a good

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noise reduction tool, but that's what it does.

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It's really designed to take the dialog, the

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voice, and pull it out of the crud.

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And so it's a noise reduction tool.

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But I also found, accidentally, whether this is

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intended or not, but based on the description

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of the plug-in, it clearly is.

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It says, the revolutionary plug-in that magically

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separates your dialog from various types of background

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noise, including wind, rustle, traffic, hums, clicks, and

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pops.

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So it has this amazing ability to do

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a lot of different jobs, including de-clicking.

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So in one plug-in, you're doing a

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lot of jobs, which can simplify your setup.

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I would point out that it's more of

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a voice extractor than a de-noiser.

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And I think that's the case with a

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lot of these new de-noise plug-ins,

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where really they're designed to separate the signal

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from what it considers noise.

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But, for example, it wouldn't be useful if

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you had noisy music and you wanted to

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take the noise out of the music, because

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that thing is very specific about taking noise

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out of voice signals.

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So a lot of these AI things are

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not broad tools.

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They're very, very specific as to what they

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do.

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This one deals with voice.

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Same thing with waves clarity.

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It doesn't just deal with voice, it deals

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with spoken dialogue.

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Spoken voice, right, exactly.

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Yeah, dialogue more than singing, exactly.

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And I kind of realized this this weekend,

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I was doing some de-noising for someone's

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audio book, and I was just noticing how

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the AI noise reduction for the voice was

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good, but it wasn't as good as going

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back to the old, in this case, I

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just went back to Z-Noise, and take

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that fingerprint, and it was able to, a

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little bit more destructively in imparting a sound,

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but it could get in and rip the

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noise out compared to just trying to eliminate

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the noise in between passages and stuff.

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I was like, wow, it was interesting, because

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sometimes you have new tools, and then you

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write off all your old tools, and you

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don't think about those old tools.

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But sometimes those old tools, they still do

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what they did, and they're good.

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That's what I was going to say, the

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same thing, sometimes it's worth going back and

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finding some really old plugins that you used

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to love, and they've been put aside, and

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then you play with them again and go,

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wow.

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So Clarity, exactly what I'm talking about, like

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X-Noise is the one I used, which

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is old, I mean, 20, maybe not 20,

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but at least 15 years old.

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Clarity is in the last three years, and

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Clarity is amazing, but like I said, it

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didn't really actually pull out as much noise

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in the actual delivery of the voice.

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Do you know what, I'm fast learning, because

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I don't use a lot of noise reduction

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day to day, but the more I'm using

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it, the more I'm finding that, I don't

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think there's one, like you might have one

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go-to EQ, or one go-to compressor,

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or something like that.

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I don't think there is a one go

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-to noise reduction for stuff, I find that

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they all have their own idiosyncrasies, and all

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that sort of stuff, and you've really got

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to sort of go, yeah, okay, that's not

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bad, but I wonder if I can do

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better, and sort of pull down whatever you've

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got in your library, and try them all

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before you settle on one.

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Absolutely, and even to the point that I

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use, going back to it, I've often used

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the C4 as a noise reduction plug-in,

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because I'll use it as an expander, and

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then you can expand out, and that way

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you're not killing everything all at once.

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You know that there's Brushfree, was it called?

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Yeah, Brushfree.

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Right, that's a noise reduction that uses multiband,

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and this one, Brushfree, has many more bands.

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Or Bertom denoiser, that's another one, Bertom denoiser.

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I will use Bertom in sequence with a

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standard expander.

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I'll even use Clarity VX with an expander

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after it, to catch little things that the

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Clarity kind of missed.

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I will cascade these, I will, yeah.

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I'll usually multiband expand, and then go into

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something that's more destructive to get the rest

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of it, because with many plug-ins, if

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you try to use them on their extremes,

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the most noise reduction, it's going to start

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showing its artifacts more.

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But if each one is used a little

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bit, you don't pick up on the artifacts.

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Well, I was saying before we started recording

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today, I've picked up a podcast for a

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couple of ladies in Canada that I'm doing

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for them, and they're basically just, they haven't

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even got studios.

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They're just recording in spare bedrooms and stuff,

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and I've worked with them and got them

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set up as best I can, but my

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noise reduction chain for them is that I

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use Clarity on both of them, but then

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rather than having to overwork it on the

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master bus, because I have a, well, not

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a master bus, sorry, a dialogue bus, I'm

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just using the NS1, but I'd like two

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or three.

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Which the NS1's an expander.

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Exactly, it's just a clean up, and that

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just cleans up whatever's left without overworking Clarity,

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and it sounds great.

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I'll tell you, anybody with an NS1, the

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scaling of the control is really kind of

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whacked out.

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You know, it goes from 0 to 100.

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Have you ever used it above 10?

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No, I don't think so.

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Like 10%, 10%.

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Most of these things, little goes a long

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way.

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I would say one thing I've noticed in

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general in the last two, three years since

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a lot of these AI noise reduction things

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have come out, people think that now noise

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is not an issue, that AI can just

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take care of it, and it's not true.

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It is not harmless.

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And even though they are less invasive than

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old noise, people are so much more willing

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to go, oh, just run it through some

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AI and it'll just take out the noise.

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It will make it sound fake and slightly

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weird in this way that you can't put

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your finger on it, but it's not, it's

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just weird.

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The free one from Adobe, the podcast one,

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they have a noise reduction tool in there

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that's obviously AI, and it does some extremely

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bizarre things.

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I mean, it literally takes your voice, makes

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a model, and replaces it with the model.

00:15:40
Oh, wow.

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So you end up with something that sounds

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like you, but just a little off to

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the left.

00:15:47
That's a long way around reinventing the wheel,

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isn't it?

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But you also wonder where your voice is

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going.

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Yeah, well, in doing so, it's getting rid

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of all the noise.

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It's supernatural capability.

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Because it's remaking it.

00:16:01
Yeah, but it's just like, dude, to what

00:16:03
end?

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And they think it's the fix for audio.

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I heard the guy speak at PodFest.

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He was there demonstrating it.

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And I'm listening to the demonstration videos, and

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I'm watching his presentation, and I'm listening to

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his clips and going, this is not great.

00:16:21
You know, you guys think it's great, because

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you built it.

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But I'm listening to the audio, and I'm

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going, it ain't great.

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It is not the same as properly recorded

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audio.

00:16:30
And here's my fear.

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All of a sudden, just like if you

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don't auto-tune your vocals, they don't sound

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professional somehow.

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Like in certain music contexts, like everything is

00:16:41
so auto-tuned out the other end that

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it sounds terrible.

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But for the right audience, it's like, that's

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the sound of professional.

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And I think that some of this ultra

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-scrubbed clean AI noise-reduced, it's just fake

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sounding.

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It imparts the sound that you can't put

00:17:02
your finger on.

00:17:02
It's roboticized, dehumanized.

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And this is pop music in a nutshell.

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I will say, though, at the same time,

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there's a pushback against all that among young

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people, I've found.

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And my daughter particularly.

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And your daughter too, Robert, have great music

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ears, so they hear these things.

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But if it's overly fucked with, she doesn't

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get into it that much.

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I mean, it depends on the genre.

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Some of it is just purely processed.

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But she still loves...

00:17:31
Plastic music, yeah.

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Traditionally produced, I wouldn't call it folk music,

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but I would say traditionally produced music where

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it's people playing instruments.

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And so I think kids are going to,

00:17:43
honestly, there's going to be a little bit

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of a pushback.

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Like, how far are we going to go

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with everything being fake?

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I hope so.

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Because the latest round of AI now is

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not just how in music you double your

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vocals and layer them, and the trick of

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a really good performer is they're able to

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sing the exact same thing so closely together

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that you can barely tell that it's been

00:18:05
doubled and it gives it that thicker sound.

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But unless you're a producer and a music

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person, you don't really go, that's doubled.

00:18:12
You just think that sounds thick.

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Ozzy is the king of that.

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Yes.

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But now there's just...

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Or was.

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Like, Waves has one, and it does it.

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But again, it's like every time you pass

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all this stuff through the AI machine, it's

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like...

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Something has lost.

00:18:27
It makes it plasticky fake.

00:18:28
Something has lost.

00:18:30
Yeah.

00:18:30
If you want to hear some amazing harmonies,

00:18:34
Google a video, it's John Farnham, who's like

00:18:38
a legendary Australian vocalist.

00:18:41
We call him The Voice here.

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That's basically what we call him.

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And two of his backing singers, who are

00:18:48
all equally amazingly talented, but it's Vinetta Fields

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and Lindsay Field, and they do an a

00:18:54
cappella version, although there's a sympiano that comes

00:18:57
in later on, but basically an a cappella

00:18:59
version of Amazing Grace.

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And it's back in the late 80s, early

00:19:04
90s AP, would it have been?

00:19:06
Yeah, somewhere like that.

00:19:06
Somewhere like that.

00:19:06
So there's no autotune, and they are just

00:19:10
fucking impeccable.

00:19:11
It is so good.

00:19:13
Yeah.

00:19:14
So good.

00:19:15
Yeah, it's true.

00:19:15
Yeah.

00:19:17
So do you believe in sound after processing?

00:19:22
I believe less is more sometimes.

00:19:24
Yeah, I think so too.

00:19:25
Look, yeah, less is more, and especially with

00:19:27
the noise reduction.

00:19:28
I don't think Robbie got that one.

00:19:29
Noise reduction?

00:19:30
Yeah.

00:19:32
Noise reduction wasn't invented to get rid of

00:19:34
barking dogs and noisy kids.

00:19:36
Don't assume.

00:19:36
It was invented to get rid of sound

00:19:38
on set and all that sort of shit,

00:19:39
like just camera noise and stuff.

00:19:41
So don't try and use it as a

00:19:44
magic marker or something.

00:19:45
If you're aware of a problem, fix it,

00:19:49
and don't assume that it can be just

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magic wanded away.

00:19:54
What is it, this one?

00:19:58
Yeah.

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Just have it go like this.

00:20:03
Gone.

00:20:04
Poof.

00:20:04
Oh, yeah.

00:20:06
Well, that was fun.

00:20:07
Is it over?

00:20:08
Sounds good to me.

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