I am working on a beautiful
violin/piano jazz duet CD and the artist asked if there was a particular
bow scrape that I might be able to do something about. At first
I though to myself, no, but then went to reNOVAtor and literally
a few minutes later, the violin note remained and the scrape was
gone. All I had to do was a level change in the VIP to compensate
for a shift in perceived volume. This is impossible!
a few days later...
Algorithmix makes me into a
genius! In less than 1 minute I have selected a pianissmo section
of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, recorded recently by my friend
at the Dallas Symphony, which was marred by a cough far back in
the hall, and without reading the manual, I have removed 95% of
this rude interruption to the music Considering how quiet the piano
passage is and how far into the ambience of the hall the cough was,
and that I have never tried this plug-in before, this is genius.
Yours of course! I am going to enjoy learning this tool.
Alan Silverman
mastering engineer at Arf! Digital, a facility in NYC specializing
in high-resolution audio. He has mastered numerous Grammy Award
CDs as well as world music phenomenon "Lagrimas Negras," nominated
for Record of The Year, Album of The Year, and Best Engineered Record
in the 2004 Latin Grammies and voted the top CD of 2003 by Ben Ratliff
of the New York Times. He has just completed remastering The Kinks
catalog for hybrid SA-CD. Alan is active in the Audio Engineering
Society and has chaired workshops in high-resolution mastering at
the society's national conventions.
www.arfdigital.com
You should know that reNOVAtor
was extensively used on Chick Corea's Grammy award winning "Rendezvous
in New York" SACD, recorded live at the Blue Note Cafe. In particular,
the track "Crystal Silence" (a duo with vibraphonist Gary Burton)
contained a *very* loud sneeze, that seemed to be everywhere in
the surround soundfield. At the time, I had no knowledge that reNOVAtor
would work at Pyramix' DSD editing rate of 352.8K/32bit, just a
desire to repair this otherwise stellar performance for my client.
A few hopeful minutes later, the sneeze was reduced to a level that
fit with the club ambience and was no longer a bothersome event.
I used reNOVAtor to process all 8 tracks (5.1 mix + 2ch mix) of
the recording simultaneously. Further use of reNOVAtor on this
project allowed the complete and transparent removal of clicks,
pops, coughs and a few 'spoons on saucers' that otherwise would
have sounded like playing mistakes! Since that time, reNOVAtor
has been indispensible, in that it is the only available tool of
its kind that can process multi-channnel DSD and retain the quality
of the source audio.
Graemme Brown
Zen Mastering Vancouver
...I just wanted to send you
a quick hello and to tell you how phenomenal your products are.
I have been going through my sample libraries (THOUSANDS of samples)
and using reNOVAtor to remove unwanted things such as breaths,
instrument body noises, bow sounds and a whole host of other things.
It is just superb! Your denoiser NoiseFree is equally fantastic,
although I don’t yet know it as well as reNOVAtor. ScratchFree
is amazing.
Dan P. Dean
Dan Dean Productions
Boy this baby rocks. I tested
reNOVAtor™ very thoroughly and I am very impressed with its performance.
The results are outstanding.
Sakis Anastopoulos
www.digisoundmastering.com
