iZotope RX Advanced: Five Tips for Dialogue Noise Reduction

I have five tips to really improve your iZotope RX workflow on dialogue noise reduction. This works in any DAW - Pro Tools, Reaper, Resolve, or Logic Pro!
0:00 Intro
0:56 Overview of 5 Tips
1:49 Noise Sample Playback
2:31 Noise Breakdown by Type
3:51 Copying clip to clean track
4:35 TIP 1: DECONSTRUCT Your Thinking
6:04 TIP 2: Tackle Tonal Problems First (HUM REMOVAL)
6:57 SIREN removal with DECONSTRUCT
11:52 TIP 3: Remove mouth clicks (transients) with DECRACKLE
13:30 TIP 4: Do simple edits in 2d for best results
16:11 TIP 5: Use plugins surgically in RX Advanced
18:53 Sending file back to Pro Tools and clip gaining
19:32 Before and After of Sample
21:07 Review of 5 Tips
23:28 Outro
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[@GerritJansevanRensbrg]

Never made proper use of deconstruct, but you have opened my eyes to the potential it has. Thanks!

[@user-ch2vx2yv8p]

Killer video as always tom!

[@Salantsoundstudios]

Thanks so much for your insight tom, love these vids!

[@IsiahKendall]

Learned some new things today! Thanks for this!

[@wks79]

big thanks again Thomas! Great tips!

[@mcjayred]

Well done Tom, great job, excellent tutorial.

[@RunningRedford]

Nice tips. Thanks!

[@nikolapopovski2259]

Thank you very much, Thomas, for sharing these helpful tips with us, they are especially valuable coming from an experienced editor like yourself! :)

[@seanmcdonald6146]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[@anthonyanzalone]

Great video. Thank you!

[@panossialmas7582]

Thanks Thomas. Great Tips!

[@itsnickfrench]

You're a great teacher! Thanks man

[@ThomasBoykin]

I appreciate that

[@richardsisk1770]

Helpful thanks

[@223Mattc]

Very well presented and thought out video, cheers Tom! I am feeling my brain shift into deconstruct mode as time goes on 😂

[@DaronMacke]

Beastly tutorial, Dude!

[@medusamediaproductions]

Great tutorial

[@adelaudio]

one way is also changing the paste prefs to paste to fill selection. so you can do bigger slections for copying and only select the offender to paste to that.

[@ThomasBoykin]

Good tip

[@mirelcristea6626]

Great, thx!

[@freaky425]

thanks for amazing tutorial, thomas. Would you mind making an episode for us newbies explaining how to understand the spectral view itself or point me in nay direction where I can learn? I would love to know just how to pinpoint sound seeing spectral view that which are noise, which are the main vocal part and etc. etc. Many thanks again for consideration!

[@bshupp]

Really useful stuff! I've never used the select harmonics or the Deconstruct tools before, thanks! Unrelated, one video I'd love to see is some more info about your new studio build. It's something I've been thinking about doing for a while, and would love to hear more about it.

[@ThomasBoykin]

Yes, I have that on deck!

[@wojciechstecyszyn6040]

Very nice tutorial. Thank you. Would be lovely to watch a wideo on how to learn this deconstruct module. Also one thought about Plug-in module in RX - sadly it uses ONLY vst2 or AU versions, but I read that Izotope is working on integrating vst3 as well :)

[@aspiringaudiophile]

Great video, Thomas! Thanks for sharing. I pretty much use a very similar approach: manually fixing the “spot” issues, roll off/silence stuff below the dialogue fundamental, clip gain phrases to a ball park -27 LUFS, and then that helps inform just how much broadband to reduce to match ambience levels. I aim for maybe -3/-4 in dialogue isolate, maybe -3 on spectral denoise, and that’s about it. I’ve used Waves Clarity VX Pro within RX as a plugin which is always interesting. It combines a few of these steps but is easy to over do. Have you ever tried Defaulter by Quiet Art? I have it but haven’t really used it because it’s backwards to the usual dialog editing practice: typical we make the noise floor seem less, but Defaulted will clip gain Pro Tools clips to a LUFS setting. I could see it working well on some types of programs, but not others. Anyway, thanks again! Cheers

[@soundshigh]

I feel Dialogue Isolate, especially the first algorithm is magical. But for TV commercials, which I limit a lot, I need to pull down the broadband noise a lot more.

[@soundroket]

Spectral denoise is also good for broadband noise.

[@conorpowell5730]

Super helpful video as always! Do you think you'd ever do an in-depth lesson on EQ, DeEssing, and Compression for dialogue?

[@ThomasBoykin]

Good idea. Probably three separate ones!

[@MrNerdly]

I want to start by saying thank you Thomas for your excellent tutorials. Ive been working in the industry for a while now and your tips, tricks and advice have added a wealth of tools to my editing belt. I also work on audio book production and have found that the Spectral De-noise works wonders on reducing bad preamp noise while keeping the noise floor in spec for Audible. Do you have any thoughts experience with this?

[@ThomasBoykin]

If what you are using works, keep doing it

[@santhoshraina7360]

This so helpful, so what would you try doing if the some picese of tonal noise like siren, vehicle passby tends to mask the some portions of the dialogue?

[@jonathansetzer6456]

Can you make one for fixing distorted or overly saturated audio?

[@chrisbistrishki]

I've been using RX for so long, how tf have I missed the "plug in" module, haha, mind blown!

[@zeitakulobusta9708]

Excellent share brother....I'm in VO but the de-crackle instead of mouth declick is on my menu! Can i ask how spectral de-noise is vs de-hum in this kind of case?

[@ahguitar1]

Thanks. I've been working on audiobooks, podcasts and a couple of indy films non-stop for the last 6 months. It's hard to pick up new approaches, or get an insight into someone elses workflow when you're always on the clock. So nice to watch this and get a few fresh ideas. Would be interested to hear what plugins outside of iZotope you commonly bring in to your dialogue workflow. Here you chose to do the broadband reduction with 3rd party plugins. Since I only work in iZotope I'd have looked at Spectral De-Noise (or possibly Voice De-Noise but I never like it). I'm guessing the 3rd party plugins are better at adapting to changeable background like traffic? I don't really like the adaptive setting on Spectral De-Noise, though I've found it to be fine for more static ambiance.

[@ThomasBoykin]

I use CEDAR DNS One for realtime de noising. Acon is good as a much cheaper option.

[@trevorhilton1143]

Thank you as always!! Quick question, do you mainly use Acon/CEDAR within audiosuite/RX or do you automate it while mixing as an insert? Curious about how you deal with delay compensation if it's the latter. Cheers

[@ThomasBoykin]

Insert for cedar. It’s very low latency

[@mikewax6515]

Any good techniques for removing someone clearing their throat? specifically in a podcast setting, when you have one person who isn't talking, they clear their throat and it bleeds into the active mic? Thanks for the great videos! Always learning something new!

[@ThomasBoykin]

You’ll have to paint it out manually in izotope

[@sleepmeditationyoutube]

Throw a little bit of Clarity by Waves and it will get rid of that noise.

[@mrkastle]

Great video, learned a lot, but I'm surprised you didn't touch Spectral Denoise? I've seen other tutorials show it is the better tool vs Voice Denoise inside RX, thoughts?

[@ThomasBoykin]

Way too many artifacts for me

[@Meadowcroftsound]

Amazing video! I've tried to recreate this in pro tools, and I'm in RX Editor now, the only problem is I have standard RX so I Don't have de-construct. Is there an alternative module for the siren you would suggest for tackling the siren? Thanks.

[@ThomasBoykin]

Spectral repair

[@Meadowcroftsound]

@@ThomasBoykin Thank you so much Thomas! I'll do my best with that one :)

[@flash2k]

can someone tell me how I get this programme to work?! I bough it downloaded it, but the only file on my system is the isotope portal. and if I open it inside my daw, it doesnt do anything ? any help would be greatly appreciated

[@tjxplorer3153]

Inside protools, creat an AUX track and insert Izotope Monitor plugin. Now Open Rx connect from audio suite. Send the desired clip from the send option of Rxconnect.

[@YahirVergara]

Great video! thanks alot for sharing your wisdom!

[@ThomasBoykin]

Thanks for watching Yahir