Noise Reduction
I get that you have to make money and one way to get people using the product is to offer an inexpensive version (Journalist) and hope they'll upgrade ... but it seems to me that you don't include the Noise Reduction tool in Journalist. The free program Audacity has it. So I find myself removing noise in Audacity then loading Hindenburg. To me, when it can be done for free, it doesn't make sense to not include it in Journalist. Noise Reduction would seem to be a fairly standard requirement.
Kenton
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Hi there,
We do appreciate that it might be frustrating not to have noise reduction in the Journalist version.
Unfortunately it seems there is a misunderstanding regarding the huge amount of work that went into creating our very unique Noise Reduction tool.
I would urge you to compare using the Noise Reduction tool in Audacity, Audition or any Noise Reduction plugin that you can buy with Hindenburg’s version, in order to understand how much more our tool can do.
Hindenburg’s Noise Reduction tool automatically identifies any persistent noise in 3 bandwidth areas, commonly called Buzz, Hum and Hiss.
In all the competing products, you have to identify each of those frequencies yourself using a spectrum analyser, and then input them into the noise reduction tool manually.
The next step would be to remove each frequency one at a time using a destructive export of the audio from which you are trying to remove the noise. If you don’t identify the frequency exactly correct, or set the amount of “removal” correctly you get to do it all over again – there is no way to hear the result before committing to the destructive change.
If you have multiple noise frequencies, each one has to be removed in a separate process.
Then you have to import the new audio and place it back into your DAW, with the resulting loss of quality.
With Hindenburg, you have a non-destructive Noise Reduction tool that will analyse and identify noise in 3 bands for you at the same time, and allow you to listen to and adjust the results with one knob before you apply the filter, and remove them on the fly without having to do any destructive export.
I hope you also appreciate that we need to have some features in PRO that are not in the basic version.
As an alternative, you can use Audacity for free or buy a Noise Reduction plugin from Waves for $150. Just for the Noise Reduction – nothing else.
Please keep in mind that PRO includes many other features that improve your workflow and results.
You could argue that each of those on their own should be in the Journalist version, but then we would not make enough money to provide any products at all….so we draw the line at features that cost us a fortune to develop and offer something unique and useful.
Best regards,
Chris Mottes, CEO.
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Strickland Bonner
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It all depends on what you want and if you value your time or your money more. I've used Hindenburg's noise reduction for 2 years and it's amazing and has saved me far more time than the additional $300.00 I spend on the upgraded version. Audacity's is manual, and not as effective. Hindenburg's is 3 bandwidth and active, so it's analyzing the track in real-time and adjusting (note to tech guys- am I speaking out of line here? That's what it appears/sounds like it's doing, but I don't want to give false claims.) I will never go back to Audacity for anything.
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Brian Mackey
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For what it's worth: I made use of Adobe Audition's noise reduction tool in the past — or at least attempted to make use of it — and can attest that the version in Hindenburg is vastly superior. At least it is for those of us who did not spend years studying audio engineering at university. Really, it's downright *magical*.
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Anonymous
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This seems surreal tome that you'd have to spend $300 MORE just to get noise reduction.