![]() It is even possible to apply third-party plugins to only the selected area. This is similar to the ‘Healing Brush’ in Photoshop, as it samples the surrounding area’s frequencies to transparently fix problems. Izotope’s built-in de-esser works really well, but we can apply other tools too, such as ‘Spectral Repair’, which only turns down the loud parts of a selection and leaves the rest intact. Thanks to the power of spectral editing, we can dive in deep and manually turn down every ‘s’ that remains. Sometimes you just can’t get rid of those pesky ‘esses’. This saves so much time, especially if you need to edit lots of backing vocals. It really detects every breath, and it leaves everything else 100% intact. I usually just turn down the gain by 6dB and occasionally 10dB for heavy breathers and this does the trick. With Breath Control, you can choose whether to turn down all Breaths by a relative gain level, or you can use an absolute Target level in dBFS. I used to hunt down every breath, cut it, and turn it down by 6 dB, but now I regularly go for Izotope RX’s ‘ Breath Control’. Breaths are often exaggerated when recording close to a microphone, and even more with compression applied. Staying on the topic of vocal editing, another issue is probably loud gasps of air. Using RX Mouth De-click as a Direct Offline Processing process in Nuendo. I use Nuendo, so I’ve made a Direct Offline Processing preset for this, in Pro Tools you’ve got Audio Suite and Logic is currently the only DAW that can use Izotope RX as an ARA2 plugin. So the first thing I do after I’ve comped the vocal takes is to add some Mouth De-click. Especially after you compress and brighten up the vocal, these can get pretty loud. Depending on the vocalist, the type of microphone, and the proximity to the mic, you get these nasty mouth smacks and clicks. One tool I use the most is probably ‘Mouth De-click’. They call it ‘eating the mic’ for a reason Then on the right side of the window, you’ll find various modules to deal with all kinds of audio gremlins. This is really like Photoshop where you can mask out part of an image, it even has a magic wand tool! You can solo selections to make sure you’re zoned in on the parts that need fixing. The most powerful feature of RX is that you can select the parts you want to process. ![]() Making a lasso selection and selecting its harmonic frequencies on top. The RX editor has a spectrogram display where you can easily see problematic frequencies, like hum, rumble, noise, clicks, pops, and other kinds of audio trouble. It works as a standalone editor application or separate plugins, depending on which version you use. If you don’t know RX, it is basically like the spectrogram audio editor variant of Photoshop. Re-recording the parts wasn’t an option, so I went to Google to look for hum removers and other audio restoration tools. ![]() A few years back, I had a Wurlitzer recording with a broken power supply that started to hum halfway through the recording. If there was one piece of software I couldn’t live without as a music producer, it would be Izotope RX. ![]()
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