ProAudio Review - December 2008 - (Page 14)

www.proaudioreview.com B I AS S o u n d S o a p P r o , a r e st o r at i o n p l u g - i n f o r Pe a k P r o SoundSoap 2 effectively removes broadband noise, 50 and 60 Hz hum, and rumble. I’ve found the plug-in to be intuitive and easy to use. It can be used as an Audio Unit, RTAS, or VST plug-in, or as a standalone application with almost any digital audio or video file. SoundSoap Pro combines three reduction and restoration tools: Broadband, Click and Crackle, and Hum and Rumble, plus a sophisticated Noise Gate into a single plug-in. It includes an intelligent noise-learning algorithm that works miracles on noise-laden tracks. The parameter controls include Click and Crackle removal tools, a global spectrogram and several other visual tools that assist in the audio restoration process. The program works perfectly to remove unwanted room noise, hiss, electrical hum, rumble, and other background noise. The BIAS Master Perfection Suite includes the PitchCraft, GateEx, Reveal, Sqweez, SuperFreq and Repli-Q plug-ins. PitchCraft is a natural-sounding pitch-correction plug-in that combines an X/Y Tuning History Graph, Keyboard Display and several sliders to control format and pitch changes. The GateEx gate/expander plugin is a powerful gate in a comfortable and easy-to-use interface. The Reveal plug-in is a seven-tool audio signal analysis suite that provides engineers an intelligent way to analyze audio. It includes an oscilloscope, spectral analyzer, spectrogram, peak and RMS Fast Facts Applications Studio, project studio, broadcast, post production Key Features The latest version of Peak Pro 6, SoundSoap 2 and SoundSoap Pro restoration plug-ins, Master Perfection Suite, DDP 2.0 Export with CD-TEXT addendum, and the Peak Pro Production Pack DVD. Review Setup Apple Macintosh 2 GHz Dual Processor G5 w/2 GB RAM Apple 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro w/2 GB RAM Lynx Aurora Converters Lucid Gen-X-96 Clock PMC AML-1 monitors Focal Twin6 Be monitors Audio-Technica ATH-M40fs Headphones Price $1,199, $599, and $129 (Pro XT 6, Pro 6, and 6 LE, respectively) Contact Bias, Inc. | 707-782-1865 | www.bias-inc.com Product Points Relatively simple and very intuitive interface Sonically better sample rate conversion compared to other DAWs No support for surround sound, DVD-A, SACD, or BluRay No PC support As far as working with stereo audio files goes, Peak Pro XT 6 is the best resource that I’ve encountered. Score level history display, peak and RMS level meters, Lissajous phase scope and pan power history display. This plug-in is extremely useful in determining how certain processing is affecting the audio content while mixing or mastering. The Repli-Q plug-in is an EQ-matching application designed to analyze, edit, and compare the spectral content of audio recordings. Once analysis has taken place, the spectral characteristics of one recording may be applied to another. The Sqweez-3 and Sqweez-5 are multi-band compressor plug-ins. In both versions, each band of compression provides gain and threshold sliders as well as five band-specific pop-up controls (attack, release, knee, ratio, and max reduction). The SuperFreq EQ plug-ins are 4-, 6-, 8- or 10-band equalizers. 14 ProAudioReview | December 2008 http://www.proaudioreview.com http://www.bias-inc.com http://www.linearsystems.com

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ProAudio Review - December 2008 Contents Technically Speaking New Studio Products Opinion: Mastering Matters Review: BIAS Peak Pro XT 6 Review: Zaxcom Fusion ENG Mixer and Multitrack Recorder Review: Sound Devices 788T 8-Track Digital Audio Recorder Review: Universal Audio UAD-2 Solo DSP Accelerator Review: Chandler Limited Germanium Compressor Review: RME ADI-8 QS A/D-D/A Converter Feature: Converters and Clocks: Engineers on Their Choices New Live Products Opinion: From the Road Review: Yamaha IM8 Series Mixing Consoles Review: NTI Digirator DR2 Digital Audio Signal Generator Review: Sencore SoundPro SP495 Audio Consultant Test Set Single Slice

ProAudio Review - December 2008

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