Review: iZotope RX 4

World Class Noise Reduction Tools

A few years back, audio plug in developer iZotope, changed the landscape of digital audio restoration with their groundbreaking software, RX. Several years and several iterations later they?ve released their latest and greatest restoration bundles yet - RX4 and RX4 Advanced.

Software this useful and comprehensive really only comes along once in a very great while. The conception, design, breadth of processing, sonic clarity and ease of use are simply stunning and all sold at a bargain price. For a supervising sound editor like me, RX is the swiss army knife of digital audio restoration and gets used every day, on every single program that I edit and mix. So many tedious mastering issues can now be vanquished with a click of a button.

A quick synopsis for those of you who are not entirely familiar with this software. RX has become the industry standard for audio repair and enhancement. It is used by post production professionals, audio engineers, and video editors to repair, clean and enhance their audio soundtracks.

RX is actually a bundle of a number of separate programs all of which treat a different, problematic aspect of digital audio recordings. It is a deep toolset but some of the specific modules are- Declicker - a module used to reduce or eliminate clicks and pops read more...