Acon Digital has released the Restoration Suite, a plug-in collection that they say allows seasoned audio engineers as well as beginners to quickly achieve excellent results, whether they are struggling with noisy recordings in new productions or dealing with noise from old treasures originating from LPs, cassettes or tapes. They tell us that the plug-ins efficiently suppress noise with minimal impact on the source material. In order to use the plug-ins, a VST or AU compatible host application is required.

A spokesperson told us, "Restoration Suite is the result of years of research and development within the field of noise reduction and audio processing. It includes the tools DeNoise for broadband noise reduction, DeHum to filter out hum and buzz noise, DeClick to remove typical pops and crackles from vinyl and 78 RPM recordings as well as DeClip to reconstruct clipped peaks. For the first time, we break out of the Windows world and release software for the Macintosh platform. Acon Digital Restoration Suite is available as VST and AU plug-ins under OSX or as VST plug-ins under Windows. Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available."

• DeNoise is a plug-in designed to reduce stationary noise, such as broadband noise, hiss, wind noise, buzz and camera noise. Great efforts have been put into preserving as much of the original signal as possible during the noise reduction process. As a result, DeNoise can reduce or in many cases completely remove the noise in a very transparent manner without loss of transients, attacks or "air" in the recording.
• DeHum targets hum and buzz typically introduced by poorly grounded electrical equipment, but also other tonal noise sources like electrical motor noise.
• DeClick is designed to remove impulsive noise such as clicks and crackle. These distortions are frequently encountered on LP and 78 RPM records, but also occur in digital recordings due to drop-outs or distorted data packets.
• DeClip restores audio recordings distorted by analog or digital clipping.

Pricing and Availability:

$99

More information:

• Acon Digital Restoration Suite

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