New Music Gear Monday: Accusonics ERA-D Noise And Reverb Remover

While everyone likes to think that their recordings are as clean as possible, sometimes we're faced with fixing one that's either noisy or has more reverb in it than we'd like. It can get expensive when it comes to specialized plugins to fix noise or reverb problems, and sometimes the learning curve is steep to get the results you want and need.

Enter the Accusonus ERA-D de-noise and de-reverberation plugin, an easy to use plugin that's effective and won't cost you an arm and a leg.

The ERA-D has two large controls to set the amount of de-noise and de-reverb, and also features 4 modes of operation - de-noise only, de-reverb only, cascade where the signal passes through the de-noise and then the de-reverb, and parallel where the signal passes through both at the same time.

Additional controls allow you to tweak the results including noise time constant, processing time constant and three types of selectable noise reduction. There are also separate reverb time constant controls for both low and high frequencies and an advanced artifact control.

One of its best features is a hi-res display that shows frequency, noise, reverb, and dry and processed signals. There are also 4 adjustable bands for adjustment of de-noise and de-reverb, which are all linkable.

The Accusonus ERA-D is available for Mac or Windows platforms and in AAX native, AU, VST2 and VST3 formats. It's available with a 14 day free trial for $299 at the plugin-alliance.com.

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De-Reverberation Made Easy

One of the dreams of post engineers has been to find a device or plugin that allows you to strip the reverberation from a sound. Dialog or effects recording with unwanted ambience eventually have to be replaced, costing time and money, and a music track swimming in too much reverb can turn into a muddy mess. Now comes an announcement from a company called Zynaptiq regarding a Mac plugin called UNVEIL, which they say accomplishes real-time de-reverberation and "signal focusing."

By using artificial intelligence, UNVIEL claims to be able to not only strip the ambience from a sound, but to add more of the natural ambience back into the sound, as well as attenuating some of the components that cause a sound to be "muddy" or masked.

I've not yet played with UNVIEL, but if it works as claimed, it could immediately find a place in the plugin lists of DAWs everywhere. Not only would it be invaluable for post, but during a mix as well. Instead of adding artificial reverb to a mix element, it would be great just to be able to adjust the natural ambience of the element itself. That means, of course, that you have to record the sound well complete with some natural ambience in the first place, but that's a topic for a different discussion.

Check out UNVIEL at the Zynaptiq site. It's just $259USD and a free trial is available. Let me know if it works as claimed.

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