Mastering: all you would expect from a professional mastering editor: the fantastic time stretch- and transposition tools, no artifacts when used within a reasonable range. Here, Acoustica really shines.Įditing: from basic to most subtle tasks, everything you need is available, e.g. Spectral Cleaning is only available in the Premium Edition and is ideal for delicate tasks by applying repair tools across time and/or frequency, which allows to clean up a noise at a certain frequency without affecting the frequencies of the same band where there is no noise. Restoration and spectral cleaning: from my experience the best restoration tools I have ever used and which you could only dream of in the analogue days. A fully featured audio-editor, simple and intuitive to use, but even a "mini-DAW" (cf. Only a few weeks ago I was given the hint about "Restoration Suite" (a plugin that includes DeClick, DeClip, DeNoise, DeHum) and especially about the audio-editor "Acoustica v.7" that fully integrates "Restoration Suite" in the Premium Edition, along with additional restoration tools, such as spectral cleaning, and so many other plugins and tools for all editing-, tracking-, mixing- and mastering-tasks. I am convinced of the product - and I can assure you by the way that I have no shares or privileges with Acon Digital whatsoever.Īcon Digital is the maker of "Acoustica" and of excellent plugins and restoration tools, too. That is why I decided to write this review and entitled it "an insider tip for professionals and beginners", based on my personal experience as a musician, producer and teacher, as other idealists do and have done for other products on the net and really helped me to better understand the digital music world doing so. I had tried out various restoration plugins to solve this inevitable problem, nothing really convinced me.Īnother important aspect for me was - since I always have been teaching, too - to find a simple DAW with which beginners could learn the basics and principles of (digital) audio production, without getting confused by hundreds of additional features, yet still on a high quality level to create great results. Everybody who records acoustic instruments (especially string instruments) or vocals knows the problem of having a great track but with some annoying noise(s) in it, such as clicks, crackles, pops, bangs etc. One thing was missing, though: a good audio-editor, especially for delicate restoration and editing purposes. Within the years, I have found the DAWs, plugins and musical programs that fit my needs. recording tracks all through with real musicians (except sometimes for the drums when live-drums are not available) - still the best procedure to make a production sound "alive" by the way. For the recording process, I still mainly work just like in the analogue days, i.e.
I play guitars and bass, and record, mix and master Rock, Pop, Country, Folk. I don't like programs or plugins with lots of gadgets or additional features that only distract from what's essential and where you need a long time to get familiar with. Since I gradually switched to the digital world about 20 years ago, one of my priorities has always been to use programs and plugins that are as intuitive and simple as possible on the one hand, yet still without lacking nor quality nor essential features to work on a high level on the other hand.
I am an old musician from the analogue days. Just a side note: Sorry if there are some grammatical mistakes, I'm quite fluent in English but it is not my native language (I am from Switzerland). (an insider tip for professionals and beginners)
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