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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: ButchAlmberg on August 30, 2019, 11:27:48 AM
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Quick survey...
What is everyone using for post processing of >2 channel recordings?
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I'm using Adobe Audition at the moment. Don't love paying monthly for it though. Would like to find a better alternative.
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Audacity. My needs are simple, it's free, and does what I need it to...
ETA: I work in Windows and *NIX environments and having a cross-platform editor is handy...
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Audacity 99% of the time
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Audacity
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Audacity 99% of the time
This. Or an old version of Soundforge if I need to EQ.
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Audacity for recordings where I have to use an envelope filter (loud transients), Sound Forge Studio for when EQ is all that's necessary.
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Wavelab 6.0
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Audacity. used to use Wavelab 5.0. I need to go to Izotope for cassette transfers (for the noise/hiss reduction) but have yet to buy. (At this point this is probably mainly due to fear of the learning curve.)
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Audacity. used to use Wavelab 5.0. I need to go to Izotope for cassette transfers (for the noise/hiss reduction) but have yet to buy. (At this point this is probably mainly due to fear of the learning curve.)
I use the Izotope RX7 plugins in Wavelab and it works just fine. No need to switch to it as a standalone program if you are already familiar with Wavelab. I run them as VST and it gobbles up a lot of processor time but my computer is an old POS so no surprise there.
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Audacity. used to use Wavelab 5.0. I need to go to Izotope for cassette transfers (for the noise/hiss reduction) but have yet to buy. (At this point this is probably mainly due to fear of the learning curve.)
I use the Izotope RX7 plugins in Wavelab and it works just fine. No need to switch to it as a standalone program if you are already familiar with Wavelab. I run them as VST and it gobbles up a lot of processor time but my computer is an old POS so no surprise there.
+T
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Izotope RX7 > Reaper.
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Audacity 2.1.0 on Mac for all multi track work since 2013.
I master and reduce bit depth with Sound Forge because I like the plugins I have, and the interface for adjusting multiple plugins in real time.
I send it back to Audacity for tracking though.
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Thanks everyone. So as it turns out, Sound Forge Pro is two channel only. I never knew.
Back to hurricane prep.
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Thanks everyone. So as it turns out, Sound Forge Pro is two channel only. I never knew.
Damn, NO WONDER I could never figure out how to mix with it.
:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
(never spent five whole minutes trying though, since Audacity works fine on PC/Mac/Linux)
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Audacity
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ProTools
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Soundforge Pro
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Amadeus II (for mac)
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Samplitude
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Sony Vegas Pro
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Audacity. Rarely need to do much more than normalizing, amplifying and maybe a touch more or less low end. Anything else I bug Ben Turnbull to fix it.😀
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Sony Vegas Pro
Doing a lot of audio-for-video work, I take it?
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Sony Vegas Pro
Doing a lot of audio-for-video work, I take it?
Yes I was doing tons of video at one time so I really know Vegas inside and out.I have even mixed 16 and 24 track local bands studio recordings in Vegas.
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REAPER
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Audacity
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Audacity 2.1.0
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Audacity 2.1.2 Linux (Lubuntu).
I also have Wavelab 6 on an old WinXP machine, but rarely touch it since I've migrated to Linux. Still love the montage feature, though.
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Soundforge, Cool Edit
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Reaper.
Probably my favorite (initially) free software since Blockbreaker :P
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Adobe Audition
Ozone 8
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Audacity for mixing, Sound Studio for most everything else.
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Wavelab fanboy here. I would guess I have been running it since they started numbering the versions. I'm running 64 bit v9.5 today. I have tried so hard to use the free or inexpensive nonlinear editors but I always come back to Steinberg.
I also am a HUGE iZotope fanboy as well. I am currently running Ozone 8 and RX 7 Advanced.
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Adobe Audition from CS5.5. I don't want to ever go to a per monthly basis on this.
CDWAVE for tracking out. Only thing I ever use that for.
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I also am a HUGE iZotope fanboy as well. I am currently running Ozone 8 and RX 7 Advanced.
Forgot to mention that I use Ozone as well as RX.
Very disappointed that they removed the excellent reverb module from Ozone in recent versions.
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Reaper with RZ7 and Ozone 8. About the only thing I miss from Wavelab is the global analysis.
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Reaper with Ozone 8
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Reaper for mixing and "mastering."
I do eq, dynamics, and saturation on my 16bit releases, the 24bit sources are untouched except for l/r balancing when necessary,
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Izotope RX7, Audacity, Soundforge.
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For 4-track recordings: cue beginnings and cut in in CD Wave > mix and set levels, track out in Wavelab 6 > edit and polish in Rx7 Advanced.
For iPhone + DPA Device recordings: cut humongous CAF files into wavs in Audacity > set levels and track out in Wavelab 6 > edit and polish in Rx7 Advanced; EQ in Rx7 for 4081 tracks.
For ZYLIA ZM-1 19 track recordings: ZYLIA Studio on Ockel Sirius A Pro (Windows 10) > Reaper with ZYLIA Studio Pro plugin (for virtual mic output) or ZYLIA Ambisonic plugin (1st, 2nd or 3rd order ambisonic output) > Wavelab 6 for stereo mix, levels and tracking > Rx7 to edit and polish.
The future: Does anyone have a favorite editing program (other than Reaper) that can handle 32 bit floating point files as input? Expect to be dealing with these soon for MixPre-6 II and/or F6.
Jeff
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^ PT can
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Just tried a short 32 bit float file, everything I use except CD Wave seems to handle it fine.
Jeff
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Adobe Audition CS6. Occasionally over the years I've thought that I should move up to ProTools, but then each time I looked into it more closely, I demurred, and by now, the urge has left me.
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^ I used the antiquated Audition 3.0 for a really long time, until I was looking for a noise reduction feature that wasn't included in the software. At that point, I upgraded to (the also antiquated, at this point) CS6. It is much faster than 3.0 and includes many additional features. I have thought about getting something more up to date, but, honestly, CS6 does everything I need and I am so comfortable with it that I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
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I use Adobe Audition CC and Audition 3 for time alignment and basic multitrack & wave editing. AA3 has a more accurate time stretching algorithm, so I do the actual time stretch in AA3.
I've used Nuendo for multitrack mixing. However, I've recently run into stability issues as I've continually layered fx and tracks, so I'm currently exploring Reaper as a new DAW.
Izotope RX7 for audio surgery and extractions via music rebalancer.
Also have vst plug-ins like Izotope Ozone and Waves. I really like the Izotope Ozone, and keep multiple versions. I liked the warm setting on Ozone 4 exciter the best, the reverb in Ozone 5, the gate in Ozone 5, and then rest in Ozone 7/8. Not sure why they ditched the reverb and three level compressor after Ozone 5 but I keep all versions for that reason.
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Adobe Audition CS6 (the last version before they went to monthly charges)
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Goldwave
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Audacity and HarBal.
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Audition CS6
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Reaper, with a bunch of Stillwell plugins.
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audition 3.0 & izotope rx7