Do the Izotope RX 3 plugins work in Audacity? (YES!)

[Unlikely]

@Shaky

@Unlikely

Your milage may vary, depends on what you are processing, your workflow and the ears someone has to hear the differences.

Indeed so!

I wasn’t aware you were working on cleaning up audio books, and can see that my firm experience that Izotope leaves significant audio artefacts wouldn’t be as much of an issue as with music in that the baseline is in effect silence.

However, with vinyl transfers I stand by my opinion 100% - backed up by extensive A/B testing - that ClickRepair is vastly superior to any other commercial restoration software regardless of price. I merely wanted to convey my experience that price wasn’t necessarily correlated with performance in that department.

Good luck!

We are on the same page. I could use other software but Audacity is my choice for Audiobook recording and editing. For me it’s not a price issue, it’s a quality AND time issue.

As for artifacts, I suspect every tool depends on how we use it. I know a little about vinyl, as I was trained to use a Neiman mastering lythe (sp?) to cut the master records as a young guy. I only did it for maybe 6 months, never good enough to produce production albums (it’s an art, I didn’t have the ears yet, but great experience that gave me some foundation). I was working with a former Motown mastering engineer, who was an expert. I did plenty of music recording engineering (outside of trying to learn to master the albums) and I was a musician as well.

I see RX3 as what I call a “chain saw tool”. If I use it wrong, it will cut my hands off (ruin my audio). There are enough minor adjustments and some deep tools for doing repair, but it all depends on how they are used.

I hear plenty of artifacts when I used CR, and depending on the setting in RX3, I can create plenty there too. I’ve also been blown away at what I’ve fixed with RX3, stuff way beyond what is possible in CR.

The great thing is we have choices, and CR will do a great job for lots of situations.

I appreciate hearing about what’s working for you, that helps my perspective.

Thanks!

Don

[Gale_Andrews]

@Unlikely

I also process with another plug-in for EQ (I like the KarmaFX 31 band EQ from this plug-in pack: KarmaFX - Audio & Music Software - Virtual Instruments and Effects VST/AU for PC and Mac.) and sometimes a light De-Esser too (depends on my narrator) If I want the de-Esser, I use the LISP version (sleepytimedsp.com).

Those don’t work for me via Chains

Chains don’t support VST plug-ins yet, only built-in plug-ins and Nyquist plug-ins.

@Unlikely

I haven’t even figured out how to do Noise Reduction via chains, unless I already have the noise profile set (I can’t figure out how to have it take my current selection to get an updated noise profile, then select the whole file to apply the noise reduction.)

Yes, the Noise Profile needs to be already captured. Effects in Chains cannot work on a partial selection unless the plug-in itself specifies the selection.

@Unlikely

The 64 bit RX3 version is over 3 times faster than the plug-in versions, and it’s easy to select all the files I want to process as a batch. I don’t know if it’s a memory thing (I have 16 GB on this box) but the stand alone version uses more of the cores I have on my machine.

I think Audacity will only use one core.


Gale