 In this video we'll be looking at Isotope RX8, and spoiler alert, it's absolute magic. I've also got a very special offer to tell you about, so let's get started. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. So once in a while a product comes along and it really blows me away. And that's been the case with Isotope RX8. In fact I'm kicking myself because I've never used the RX series before and if I had I could have saved myself hundreds if not thousands of hours editing glitches out of my audio. So in today's video I'm going to cover some of my favorite features of this package but I'm hardly scratching the surface. Check out the link in the description to find out about the different versions available and what included. It's really amazing. Now also stick around till the end of the video because I'm going to be telling you about a very special offer from my friends at Plugin Boutique to do with this package. So do stick around for that. So let's get stuck in and see what magic is inside RX8. So a great vocal performance can be ruined with plosives. This is the sound of wind rushing across the microphone and we particularly get it with puh and bust sounds. In the recording I'm about to play you it's being caused by a tuh sound on the second word. You've taken my heart and you give it up. And again you've taken my heart and you give it up. And one more time and remember to listen with headphones or studio monitors. You've taken my heart and you give it up. So I'm going to apply deplosive from RX8 on its default settings. Let's see what difference it makes. You've taken my heart and you give it up. Like magic. It's gone. So you can get really intimate sound from a vocal by having the singer very close to the microphone and singing nice and gently. The problem is we pick up all the pops and clicks and slaps that the human mouth naturally makes. Have a listen to this recording and I want you to listen out for the kind of slap sounds that you have on the word give. You've taken my heart and you give it up. Have a listen again. Listen to the word give. You've taken my heart and you give it up. It's really unpleasant once you can hear it. So let's apply the mouth de-click feature in RX8 and I've just adjusted the settings just a little bit with sensitivity and click widening and let's see what it's done. You've taken my heart and you give it up. I mean that's like magic to me and it's going to save me hours of time. So let's have a listen to this section where the singer takes a breath in between lines. Now it's natural for us to hear breathing in vocals and if we get rid of it completely it can sound very odd indeed. So I'm going to use breath control in RX8 just to tame that breath a little. Let's have a listen to it now. I've got breath control applied. Give it up. Try to fit. And again the original recording. Give it up. Try to fit. And again with breath control. Give it up. Try to fit. And just for fun because I know you're all going to try this if you get RX8. Let's get rid of the breath completely. Give it up. Try to fit. So at times we're going to pick up unwanted sounds from the headphones by the microphone. Let's have a listen to this recording where the drums have been picked up from the singer's headphones by the microphone. Okay so I'm going to apply D-Bleed in RX8 and I've also loaded up the original drums so it can use them as a reference. Now the first couple of seconds here doesn't have it applied so you will hear a couple of drum clicks. Let's see how it's done. And it's gone. So from time to time we'll pick up an awful squeak sound when we record guitars especially with chord changes. Let's have a listen to this little passage here and listen for that squeak sound towards the end with the last chord change. Did you hear that? Sounds awful. I'll just focus in on that part so you can listen again. So I'm going to use the squeak feature which is within the guitar D-Noise feature in RX8. Let's see how it's done. I keep saying it's magic. So at times you're going to get some unwanted noise when recording electric guitar. Let's have a listen to this recording where there's a very annoying low hum. So I'm going to use the amp section from within the guitar D-Noise feature in RX8. Let's see how it does. No more humming. So eventually you're going to want the world to hear your music and you're going to have to create some different versions for different situations because the requirements for something say like Spotify are quite different to that of public radio for example. So in RX8 we have this wonderful loudness control which is full of presets to make this job easier for you. So I've got my original audio here and I've selected the music streaming preset because I think it's really suitable for Spotify. I'm going to click the compare button there to add that over here and we can listen to the original and then the Spotify version. So the original sounds like this. And then with the Spotify version it sounds like this. A lot louder as you can hear. So there's some really useful presets here including things like contemporary music master right down at the bottom here, public radio in the USA or of course you can create the settings manually. Now there may be occasions where you want to rebalance a mix but you don't have access to the original files. So in RX8 they have this music rebalance feature and you can see it's just like a simple mixer where we control the level of the vocals, the bass, the percussion and other instruments. Now it does take a little while to process files using this feature so I've pre-prepared some examples for you. So here is the original song as it was. And here is with a little bit of a vocal boost. Now on this occasion I've chosen to make the drums a little bit louder. So it's kind of amazing that it can do that with essentially a mastered file. Now just for fun and it's not really intended like this let's do some things like removing things completely. So in this version I've completely removed the vocals so we just get an instrumental version. Okay sounds a little bit weird but fun. Now in this version what I've done is get rid of everything else except for the drums. So as I say this is not what this was intended for but I've got to say I'm still kind of impressed. So I've been focusing on just a few of the music production features in RX8 but there's a lot more to it than that. If you're involved at all with the production of spoken word things like podcasts or maybe even video like this then you should definitely check out the features to do with that. Just follow the link in the description down below to find out about the different versions available and what they include. Now if you do follow that link it's going to take you to Plug-In Boutique. They have a very special offer on at the moment. If you buy any of the versions of RX8 then you're going to get a complimentary copy of Isotope Trash 2 and also Ujam Carbon which I covered on the channel before you can watch that video just here. It's an awesome offer I think it's available until the end of September 2020 so definitely take advantage of that. You're going to get around about $200 worth of software for free just by buying RX8. Now I want to know from you in the comments down below what was the most mind-blowing feature that you saw in this video. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. If you did like this video make sure you hit the like button and if you do like this kind of content subscribe and ring the bell on YouTube so that you're notified about my future videos. 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