Sonic Studio has announced its Ice v1.0 audio restoration plug–in.
Developed veteran engineer Billy Stull of Legendary Audio, the plug-in operates at 64-bit resolution without using EQ or resynthesis, it reduces unwanted components that have accumulated within a sound file during recording and processing.
Problems that can be addressed using Ice include: undesirable distortion, ‘hot spots’ and harshness, over modulation and overloads, sibilance, resonances, and ‘digititis’ from lesser-quality converters, DAWs and DSP.
‘Being able to clean up and sculpt whatever comes in, track-by-track in Pro Tools or any other DAW, opens a new world of recording,’ Stull says. ‘Removing digital or analogue distortion to taste, boosting deficient frequency bands, removing an unpleasant area in the vocalist’s tone, or taming resonant frequencies on bass, piano, or boomy acoustic guitar is amazingly quick.’
Ice is available from the Sonic Studio web site for US$289 or as part of the upcoming Sonic All Plug–ins subscription service. The unified installer includes Audio Units, VST 2 and AAX for Pro Tools 10 (32-bit) plus Pro Tools 11 and 12 (64-bit) for Mac OS. VST and AAX Windows support will follow in the v1.1 maintenance update.
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