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AUDIO TOOLS www.postmagazine.com 26 POST SEPT/OCT 2020 Cedar's DNS One handles Adverse audio LOS ANGELES — Audio engineer Dominic Castro used the Cedar Studio DNS One to deal with some of the noisy environments encountered during the production of the feature film Adverse, starring Mickey Rourke, Sean Astin and Penelope Ann Miller. "There were quite a few very noisy environments with things like air conditioning noise, fridges and other equip- ment in restaurants, and noise from city life off-set," he explains. "It's important to me to maintain the integrity and quality of the sound, and Cedar DNS One was my noise reduction choice for the dialogue bus and as well as some individual tracks. It's very smooth and transparent, and it leaves dialogue sounding natural, not gated and loaded with artifacts, like I've found with other noise reduction plug-ins. Also, automation is huge for me during any mix, so being able to preview all of the automation parameters and punch to a selection is awesome. Now that I have a few 'S Ones paired with a dock, I can flip the automation parameters to the faders for an even more hands on, detailed workflow." DNS One (cedaraudio.com) is derived from the Academy Award-winning DNS1000 dialogue noise suppressor and is designed for removing motor noise from recordings, for eliminating electrical interference and for helping to clean up recordings that suffer from unfavorable acoustics and poor microphone locations. According to Gordon Reid, managing director of Cedar Audio Ltd. (www.cedaraudio.com), the DNS One is sold together with DNS Two as a complementary pair of plug-ins as part of the company's Cedar Studio suite. It is compatible with the AAX, VST2, VST3 and AU environments. The price of the bundle is $2,197. "Movies tell a story and, as a re-recording mixer, it's my job to com- bine all of the sound elements to achieve the director's vision and later to elicit emotional responses from the audience," Castro notes. "Adverse is dialogue-driven, so making sure that the dialogue was clean, strong and present was of the utmost im- portance. I could not have done that without Cedar." Bass-Mint plug-in enhances low frequencies Plugin Alliance has an- nounced the availability of Unfiltered Audio's (www. unfilteredaudio.com) Bass-Mint, a new low-fre- quency enhancement tool that's designed to rapidly improve the bottom end of individual tracks, stems or entire mixes. The frequency splitter from the Santa Cruz, CA-based company, has an adjustable cutoff that separates the low band from the high band, allowing users to deploy different types of processing on each. From there, the five main modes and five knobs can be used to dial in the ideal sound. Unfiltered Audio's Bass-Mint is available for purchase (as an AAX Native-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-supporting effect plug-in for macOS 10.11 through 10.15 and Windows 7 through 10) at an introductory price of $129.99 ($149.00 after November 8th). A fully-functional, 14-day trial is available to anyone registering for a free Plugin Alliance account (http://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/registration.html). The release is also included in Plugin Alliance's monthly Mega Bundle and annual Mega Bundle subscrip- tion services, and its monthly Mix & Master Bundle and annual Mix & Master Bundle subscription services. There is also a monthly Unfiltered Audio Bundle subscription service available. Waves' Kaleidoscopes plug-in adds musical effects Waves Audio in Knoxville, TN, is now shipping Kaleidoscopes, a suite of plug-ins for creating phaser, flanger, chorus and tremolo sounds. The suite's Dual Cascade engines allow the user to combine or "cascade" any two effects to create unique textures. The plug- ins also features intelligent trig- gers that respond dynamically to realtime cues. Waves has handpicked many all-time-favorite analog effects from legendary eras in creating the package, including '60s phasing and tape flanging, '70s stadium tremolo-guitar vibes and '80s chorus. On each of the two engines, users can choose a selection of wave shapes or any sidechain signal from their DAW session to be the modulation input. Users can even select a performance as the input, allowing live playing to control the sound in realtime. Speed, resonance, width and depth of the modulation, plus filter settings and mix knobs, can be adjusted for versatility. A 'thru' mode allows users to run a dry signal on one channel and the wet signal on another. Kaleidoscopes is priced at $99, but Waves is offer- ing discounts of as much as 60 percent off via its Website (www.waves.com). Izotope releases RX 8, updates flagship suites Cambridge, MA's Izotope Inc. (www.izotope.com) has released RX 8, the latest update to its flagship audio repair and enhancement software. The company has also launched