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Tutorial on Commonly Used Modules

This is our 3rd article on iZotope’s audio repair tool RX 7.
We will continue to look at editing using different modules.
Though many modules are included, I have chosen a few which I find personally useful and common to take a look at.

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De-hum

First take a listen to this sample.
https://sleepfreaks-dtm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hum_Crackle_pre.mp3

We can hear a low humming noise as well as a constant crackling sound as well.
Lets try to get rid of these.

We will be using De-hum to remove the hum noise.

Hum noise is usually based around low frequencies in the 50-60Hz range, and is a noise that contains a number of harmonics.
We could select 50 or 60Hz from Base Frequency, but if you want AI to make the choice for you, click the Suggest button at the top.

This will analyse the sample and Free mode will allow it to set a more accurate frequency.

The hum noise can been reduced greatly but if the voice has been negatively effected as well, we can lower the number of harmonics down right on the brink of effecting the main sound. We can do this from the Number of harmonics fader.

Next lets adjust the amount of cut. You can make changes from the screen, but the frequency points can get shifted in free mode so we’ll enter numerical changes below.

Find a point where the noise isn’t noticeable yet the vocal remains clean.

For the low end, you can cut up until the point where it starts effecting the vocal. We will turn the High-Pass Filter on and cut under 100Hz.

Though you most likely won’t be using the Low-pass-filter, it may be necessary depending on the type of noise present.

If we want to make more detailed edits on the harmonics we can choose a different Linking Type.

For the default ALL setting, moving the slider here will have a slope effect on all frequencies.
By selecting Odd/even you can control the odd and even harmonics separately.
The Slope slider will help lower the reduction effect on higher frequencies.
When None is selected the link is removed, allowing you to control the Gain of individual harmonics.

De-Crackle

Next lets look at getting rid of the crackling pop-like noises.
We will be using De-crackle.

• Quality：Low will work faster, while High will provide a better sound quality. Medium may yield better results than High depending on the situation, so its best to listen and compare this settings.
• Strength：Determines the strength of the effect, and a higher setting will get rid of more noise but can negatively effect the vocal sounds. Use “Output crackle only” to hear just the crackle sounds and find the right setting.
• Amplitude skew：Allows you to determine the amount of noise editing by the volume of the input signal. Turning it to the right focuses on the louder areas, while turning it to the left will do the opposite. We can set this higher if dealing with clipping noise, but for small detailed crackling noises such as this, it is best to set this parameter on the lower side.

For noise that couldn’t be completely removed, we can try using Spectral De-noise which we took a look at in our previous article.
https://sleepfreaks-dtm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hum_Crackle_processed.mp3

As you can hear, we have been able to clean up the audio.

De-reverb

Now lets change the sample audio and take a look at the unique De-reverb.
As the name implies, this helps remove reverb and room reflections in a recording.
First lets hear the sample for this example.
https://sleepfreaks-dtm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reverb_pre.mp3

We can clearly hear the reverb in this sample.
We will be using De-reverb on this audio.

Though all of these parameters may seem confusing, we can utilise RX 7’s special feature here and get some automatic settings using the Learn button.

To dive a little deeper into the editing, we can leave the Reverb Profile frequency settings set by Learn as is, and adjust the Reduction and Tail length to yield big results.

• Reduction： Increases the amount of reduction of reverb. We want to raise this higher but it will cut out vocal frequencies if set too high, so its best to adjust it to find the right balance.
• Tail length：The further right its pulled the more it works on longer reverb tails. If you get unnatural changes in the vocal sound, be sure to pull this back a little to the left.
• Artifact smoothing：Adjusts the frequency detail of noise removal. Setting it low results in some artefacts in sound, but will increase the amount of reverb reduction. If set higher, you will have less artefacts and a smoother sound, but more reverb will be left over. Its best to listen and find a balance in the middle.
• Enhance dry signal：Increases the volume of non-reverb sounds and expands the dynamic range. This works great on dialogue and human vocals.

The resulting audio after adjusting each parameter is as follows:
https://sleepfreaks-dtm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reverb_processed-1.mp3

Though its not a completely dry signal, a considerable amount of reverb has been edited out.

De-clip

Next, if we happen to accidentally distort audio during recording we can use De-clip to remove clipping noise.

We have a sample prepared for this as well.
* Be aware that this sample is louder than the previous examples.
https://sleepfreaks-dtm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Clip_pre.mp3

In de-clip we will first setup the threshold of clip sounds. We will use this histogram as a reference but it looks like nothing is displayed at the moment. The histogram will be updated depending on the selected area, so lets first select the portion with vocal audio contained.

If you still don’t see anything, zoom out in the Histogram. Because the majority of sound is clipping, we can see quite alot reflected in the higher volume areas.

By pressing the Suggest button, it will automatically set the Threshold to the suggested point.

Its clipping to the point that that nothing is visible in the center, so it’s set to 0dB. If the audio isn’t this distorted, we would set the threshold a little below the clip.

The remaining parameters work as follows:

• Quality：If your CPU can handle it we suggest using High. If your computer can’t handle the strain when using this as a plugin, use Medium or Low.
• Makeup gain：Most distorted recordings are too loud to begin with, so we will be lowering this. You could adjust this parameter so that the fixed audio matches the volume of your other takes as well.
• Post limiter：Applies a peak limiter at the end to prevent the edited audio from going over 0dBFS. Its best to tick this box.

Lets hear how the sample sounds after making adjustments.
https://sleepfreaks-dtm.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Clip_processed.mp3

The sound is much cleaner and its hard to believe it was distorted.

This completes our look at some commonly used modules in RX 7.
RX 7 covers a vast field of noise/reverb related issues, so be sure to try it out for your own recordings!

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The Breath Control module will automatically detect breaths in your vocal takes and suppress them. This can be an essential tool when trying to get a very intimate or aggressive vocal sound that requires the singer to be very close to their microphone.

Once the vocal take is saturated, compressed or limited, the singers breathing can become loud and abrasive while the vocal take itself might be just the sound you're looking for. The Breath Control module can allow you to reduce the gain of these breaths, while keeping the sung vocals untouched.

Detection

The Breath Control module automatically analyzes the incoming vocal take and distinguishes breaths from sung vocals based on their harmonic structure. If any piece of the incoming audio matches a harmonic profile similar to a breath, the module will suppress that portion of the audio until sung vocals are detected.

Different from a 'Threshold' based process in which the module is only engaged once the audio has risen to a certain volume, Breath Control will perform its analysis regardless of level. This allows for accurate breath recognition with a multitude of quiet or loud vocal styles with minimal adjustment of the module's controls.

Modes:

Gain

When a breath is detected in Gain mode, the Breath Control module will reduce the gain of that breath, regardless of the level of that particular portion of audio. With the 'Gain' slider set to a reduction amount of -30dB, if the singer breaths in very quietly and then very loudly, both the loud and quiet breaths will be reduced in gain by -30dB.

In some cases, this is desirable when trying to handle egregious breathing or as a way of removing all breaths from a particular spoken or sung vocal take. Depending on your settings however, this can result in unnatural sounding results as the very quiet breaths may be inaudible, while the loud breaths will be reduced to a normal level.

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Target

When in Target mode, the reduction amount of the 'Target' slider represents the desired level that you wish all detected breaths to be reduced to. This means that if a singer breaths in quietly and then loudly, both the loud and quiet breaths will be reduced only as much as is necessary to have both breaths reach the desired level.

This can result in much more natural sounding breath reduction as the detected breaths in your audio are only reduced when necessary. Loud and abrasive breaths will be reduced heavily while quiet natural sounding breaths will be left at the same volume.

Note: By default, the Breath Control module will be in Target mode.

Tracking vs. Mixing

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When in Tracking mode, the Breath Control module will automatically be bypassed.

In order for the Breath Control module to have time to perform its analysis, it must incur a good deal of latency. The result of this latency is that the incoming audio is delayed in time with respect to the other tracks in your session.

Most modern day host audio applications have a feature called 'Delay Compensation' which will recognize the latency (delay) that Nectar is reporting and will adjust the tracks in your session accordingly - making sure that all of your tracks are aligned and in time with each other. This 'Delay Compensation' can only happen once the audio has been recorded into your digital audio workstation however.

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When tracking (recording) your incoming audio, if Nectar is in Mixing mode and the Breath Control module is engaged, the latency of the Breath Control module will cause a delay between when the audio comes in to your computer, and when it passes through Nectar. In these instances, be sure to switch Nectar into Tracking mode.

Note: If your host has a limited number of samples of latency compensation, Breath Control may still cause tracks to be played back out of sync with each other. In these cases, we recommend processing your vocal takes with Breath Control as a separate offline process, and then using the other modules in Nectar to enhance your vocals in real-time.

Sensitivity - This controls how sensitive the breath control module is when detecting the harmonic structure of breaths in your incoming audio.

Gain (dB) - Sets the desired amount of gain reduction applied to all detected breaths, regardless of level.

Target (dB) - Sets the resulting desired level of all detected breaths

Breaths Only -When enabled, only the audio of the detected breaths will be passed to the output of the module. This can help when setting the Sensitivity control in order to make sure that only the breathing in your audio is being processed.