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40 S U M M E R 2 0 1 7 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Boom operator David Raymond and Peter Devlin CAS One of our dialogue editors on Deadliest Catch, John Creed, and I have both found De-wind and De-rustle to be very effective as well. De-wind is great at removing wind on mic sound, and we use it in conjunction with De-rustle to remove the cloth flap sound and cloth rustle. It performs very well with truly impressive results. In practice, I often find myself reaching for Dialogue Isolate first though, as that simply solves a whole host of issues. In general, the layout of almost all of the RX windows has been updated to be more logical in its layout. They (RX windows) look great and show the signs of a product that has matured over time with a very active user base. The shade of the plugin windows is much darker, closer to black. It gives all the windows a really nice look—although in my opinion, it does make it slightly harder to read the text. Supposedly, standard black text on a white background is easiest for the eyes, but it doesn't look as cool, so I guess they're going with form over function a bit here. But I don't mind at all. Many of the windows are more consistent with the layout of sliders. For instance, in De-hum, the Slope was vertical and the Harmonics selector was horizontal. It's much cleaner now with everything horizontal. Those might seem like little things, but when you're staring at these windows all day long, you do notice it being easier to quickly see and digest the information you need. The History and Preset buttons are now more properly placed alongside the Settings button on the top right of the plugin window. It makes for a much cleaner layout and, in general, all of the plugin windows are much cleaner looking. The Bypass button has been moved to the left side of the window sitting above Avid's built-in Bypass button. I think this was another great decision, as it seems more fluid and easy to see quickly. In RX De-click, the Click type drop-down menu has been removed. Selecting the Click type has now been rolled into the Preset menu. It does make sense for them to do this, but I do sometimes miss the convenience of quickly selecting between Click, Thump, and Discontinuity. However, having more specific built- in presets, such as Remove Thumps, Random Thumps, and Periodic Thumps, is a good trade-off. Again, the focus in RX6 is a cleaner interface and more logical placement of buttons. In RX6, Voice De-noise replaces Dialogue De-noise. Voice De-noise has a setting to optimize for dialogue or music. And the Manual and Auto mode buttons are now replaced by a checkbox for Adaptive mode. De-noise is now called Spectral De-noise. Other than the Smoothing no longer being a pop-up window (it now sits on the main window), it's largely unchanged. RX De-ess is another nice addition and offers a much more convenient and quick way to deal with sibilant audio. Developed with machine learning, Dialogue Isolate extracts dialogue from noisy environments with complex background sounds like clanging plates in a restaurant, traffic noise, and machinery. Developed with machine learning, De-rustle enables you to remove lavaliere mic rustle from dialogue with a single click—an industry first!