Sonnox - Restoration and Noise Reduction Tools on sale, to be retired

[Michael Docy]

https://sonnox.com/categories/other-plugins/restoration-and-noise-reduction-tools

We’re retiring the Oxford DeBuzzer, DeClicker, and DeNoiser plugins, but we’re giving them a proper send-off before they go.
For a limited time, you can pick up any of these clean-up classics for just £10 each (usually £199.99), or grab all three as a bundle for £25 (down from £479.99).
Licenses are yours to keep, and the plugins will continue to work on all currently supported systems. After the sale ends on July 14th, they’ll no longer be available to buy.
These tools have been used everywhere from The Sound of Music restorations to Call of Duty, true crime TV, and even forensic investigations.
If these have ever been on your radar, this is your last chance to pick them up.
Thanks, 
The Sonnox Team

 

[Brian Walton]

Curious about experience with these.

I've got the Acon suite, Izotope RX and also SuperTone Clear (that I think works quite well for Dialog related tasks).  

I know these are rather old so I'm curious how they stack up.  

[CSistine]

I have purchased the Oxford DeClicker, because I have the DrumGate and that one is an extraordinary plugin.

IMHO Sonnox is a superior plugin company and with iLok authorization you have a kind of guaranty that plugin usage is guaranteed, contrary to CR where you rely on the mercy of the company and its existance. CR is ***** of the customer, because he never knows whether or how long he can use what he has paid for! Frankly, nowadays I am reluctant to use CR plugins in projects that are important for me for more than a year (it's all caused by the experience with some developers)!

[Brian Walton]

26 minutes ago, CSistine said:

I have purchased the Oxford DeClicker, because I have the DrumGate and that one is an extraordinary plugin.

IMHO Sonnox is a superior plugin company and with iLok authorization you have a kind of guaranty that plugin usage is guaranteed, contrary to CR where you rely on the mercy of the company and its existance. CR is ***** of the customer, because he never knows whether or how long he can use what he has paid for! Frankly, nowadays I am reluctant to use CR plugins in projects that are important for me for more than a year (it's all caused by the experience with some developers)!

CR?

As for ilok, my rather expensive Drum Core 4 seats are worthless now - even with the ilok authorization in my account.

 

Acon seems to authorize offline from what I can tell.  Izotope you can do computer auth or ilok (actually both with the same seat).

While Sonnox is considered a high quality company related to the plugins, these also came out 15+ years ago, correct?  The tech someone like Supertone Clear is using wasn't in any kind of mass consumption product back then, thus the curiosity of how it performs by todays standards.

 

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another $5 off with code:  THANKYOU20

 

[CSistine]

13 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

CR?

I compared it(iLok) to CR = challenge response based authorization. For the customer that one is the most "dangerous" one, because it totally depends on the company (either insolvency or product drop). It's especially risky if a product requires periodical re-authorization (like CbB, Sonar).

[CSistine]

13 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

While Sonnox is considered a high quality company related to the plugins, these also came out 15+ years ago, correct?

There are many products on the market that appeared 15 or more years ago. And if I look at cars, then I even claim their quality was better than today, but YMMV.

Back to plugins: I noticed that most providers haven't done any real changes in the last 5 years, except compatibility to macOS + Apple Silicon (e.g. PA). Frankly, why do a lot of people always expect improvement for things that are already quite perfect? I would rather await new plugins in areas that are not or almost not covered. I would have several ideas/requirements.

[Brian Walton]

46 minutes ago, CSistine said:

There are many products on the market that appeared 15 or more years ago. And if I look at cars, then I even claim their quality was better than today, but YMMV.

Back to plugins: I noticed that most providers haven't done any real changes in the last 5 years, except compatibility to macOS + Apple Silicon (e.g. PA). Frankly, why do a lot of people always expect improvement for things that are already quite perfect? I would rather await new plugins in areas that are not or almost not covered. I would have several ideas/requirements.

I think you are missing the point about these particular plugins and not a generalzation.

Again back to my example, restoration and noise removal, AI has changed the game as to what is possible.  That wasn't the tech used in something like this 15 years ago.

Thus do these work better than the modern equivalents or specifically what I already have?  

Have you used Waves VX or Supertone Clear, on a vocal track to have the point of reference as a clear example of how tech in this area is worlds different than it used to be.

Noise removal historically have been very far from perfect even with class leading tools.  Not even close, which is the specific topic of discussion.  

[Alex Sokolov]

Those AI plugins like Clear and DxRevive are great, but only for dialogs. 
I've bought the Sonnox bundle yesterday and I like the denoiser for its Hiss section.  

a pop-up appears on the official website offering a subscription with a 20% discount. That brings the total price to 20 euros for the whole set

Edited July 8 by Alex Sokolov

[Bajan Blue]

Hi

I've had all these for many years and use them all the time - in fact I used them yesterday !!

For this price, total no brainer 

Nigel

 

 

[Amberwolf]

On 7/4/2025 at 2:39 AM, Brian Walton said:

Noise removal historically have been very far from perfect even with class leading tools.  Not even close, which is the specific topic of discussion.  

Do you happen to have experiences using any "noise removal" tools for essentially isolating out something like the tiny sounds a dog makes from all the environmental noise that will virtually always be included in such recordings***?  

 

I have an emotional-support-wolfy-robotics project that needs to use a huge variety of these sounds, with as many versions of each as possible for what amounts to "round robin" usage (though not that technology).   Some of them I can record locally from my current St Bernard, but the rest have to come from existing recordings of other dogs I've had or recordings of real wolves I can get permission from others to use for this. 

 

***because you can't really take them into a studio and expect them to interact and behave "normally" while you try to record them doing all the things dogs do, including all the little greeting noises, sleeping noises, etc etc.   

Edited July 9 by Amberwolf

[Zo]

On 7/8/2025 at 9:07 PM, Bajan Blue said:

Hi

I've had all these for many years and use them all the time - in fact I used them yesterday !!

For this price, total no brainer 

Nigel

 

 

Grabbed without testing (should have) those and the interface is over complex sometime , dare to share some ressources on how to perfectly use those ?

[Brian Walton]

On 7/9/2025 at 1:47 AM, Amberwolf said:

Do you happen to have experiences using any "noise removal" tools for essentially isolating out something like the tiny sounds a dog makes from all the environmental noise that will virtually always be included in such recordings***?  

 

I have an emotional-support-wolfy-robotics project that needs to use a huge variety of these sounds, with as many versions of each as possible for what amounts to "round robin" usage (though not that technology).   Some of them I can record locally from my current St Bernard, but the rest have to come from existing recordings of other dogs I've had or recordings of real wolves I can get permission from others to use for this. 

 

***because you can't really take them into a studio and expect them to interact and behave "normally" while you try to record them doing all the things dogs do, including all the little greeting noises, sleeping noises, etc etc.   

Anything with environmental noise (and not a static type in a certain frequency range is going to be difficult on anything other than vocals (we have seen enough AI training on vocals in particular that tools have been tailored to this).  That said, I had good experience using CalrityVX to help isolate bird chirping from environmental background noise without getting into fine tune editing.  I'd say run a demo of a few options and see what the results are like before investing in a tool.

 

[MusicMan]

On 7/4/2025 at 12:51 AM, Brian Walton said:

Curious about experience with these.

I've got the Acon suite, Izotope RX and also SuperTone Clear (that I think works quite well for Dialog related tasks).  

I know these are rather old so I'm curious how they stack up.  

I was reading this comparison the other day that was quite interesting. Like you mentioned in another comment, restoration tech has evolved quite a bit over the years, in comparison to some of the more traditional tools.

Might be worth a read if you're considering them.

https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/premium-noise-reduction-shootout-the-results

[Bajan Blue]

19 hours ago, Zo said:

Grabbed without testing (should have) those and the interface is over complex sometime , dare to share some ressources on how to perfectly use those ?

Hi Zo

what i normally do is start with one of the presets, then carefully adjust the parameters for the particular track I'm working on.

For instance on the De-Noiser, start with say the Auto De Hiss Classic, then I carefully set the Threshold, then adjust the reduction on the De-hisser and the removal tab.

I listen on the Diff setting to see what I am removing.  then I can adjust the Tune, Air and colour controls.

i suppose I have gotten used to these plug-ins over the years, so I do understand there is a learning curve - but I've always found if you can spend a little time with them, the results can be excellent.

I have izotope RX10, but I prefer these - I expect it's because i've had them so long and know how to use them!! i believe that is the same for most plugins - if you have had them for some time and have taught yourself how you can get the best out of them, they are then the best!!! a good example of this is I still have and use some of my Kjaerhus 32bit plug ins - especially the gate, which I prefer over much newer plugins!!!

I hope this is helpful

Keep well

Nigel

 

 

[Zo]

20 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Hi Zo

what i normally do is start with one of the presets, then carefully adjust the parameters for the particular track I'm working on.

For instance on the De-Noiser, start with say the Auto De Hiss Classic, then I carefully set the Threshold, then adjust the reduction on the De-hisser and the removal tab.

I listen on the Diff setting to see what I am removing.  then I can adjust the Tune, Air and colour controls.

i suppose I have gotten used to these plug-ins over the years, so I do understand there is a learning curve - but I've always found if you can spend a little time with them, the results can be excellent.

I have izotope RX10, but I prefer these - I expect it's because i've had them so long and know how to use them!! i believe that is the same for most plugins - if you have had them for some time and have taught yourself how you can get the best out of them, they are then the best!!! a good example of this is I still have and use some of my Kjaerhus 32bit plug ins - especially the gate, which I prefer over much newer plugins!!!

I hope this is helpful

Keep well

Nigel

 

 

Thks homie , yeah i started (as always) with the "diff engaged " to see the diffren,ce of controls but it was harder to reach good results than Izotope dat you mentionned ...so im intrigued since you seems to prefer the sonnox ...but i will give those another try .... i jumped since sonnox , in my book , is one of my fav brand and the most serious  one around with exellent people in the team .

Imho they will come with a more user friendly restoration suite offering .

[Mr No Name]

I've got a clipped bass note in a mastered track (nothing very dramatic) which one of these would get rid of it?  it's not a square wave digital clip.

?

[ashley_k]

On 7/12/2025 at 9:33 PM, Mr No Name said:

I've got a clipped bass note in a mastered track (nothing very dramatic) which one of these would get rid of it?  it's not a square wave digital clip.

?

I don't think any of the tools in the Sonnox restoration bundle are aimed at fixing clipped audio, I guess they could possibly help depending on the clipping, but I would think you'd be better of using the de-clipping function in iZotope RX (or one of the other tools in RX to fix / smooth / repair the clipping), Acon Digital Restoration Suite 2 has a de clip plugin, or there are alternative de-clipping options you could try, as it can be a bit of trial and error to see what works best to fix the clipping. 

If you have a single very short bit of clipping, you could possibly fix the clipping with an audio editor that can edit at sample level, as it can be possible to manually rebuild smooth out the clipping, by rebuilding the wave form, but you need to have the time and patience to do it, I've fixed a few thing manually at sample level, things like vinyl clicks, etc.

[chris.r]

On 7/3/2025 at 7:11 PM, CSistine said:

I have purchased the Oxford DeClicker, because I have the DrumGate and that one is an extraordinary plugin.

IMHO Sonnox is a superior plugin company and with iLok authorization you have a kind of guaranty that plugin usage is guaranteed, contrary to CR where you rely on the mercy of the company and its existance. CR is ***** of the customer, because he never knows whether or how long he can use what he has paid for! Frankly, nowadays I am reluctant to use CR plugins in projects that are important for me for more than a year (it's all caused by the experience with some developers)!

I'm with you on the whole CR thing. But when I bought Sonnox Inflator, it was about a year max two ago, when I first opened the plugin, it took me to a website to authorize it with some codes generated online, iirc. The whole process resembled challenge-response method.. in addition to ilok! Then I stopped buying from that company as I avoid CR plugins for some time now. I'd love to be proven wrong but the activation was real annoying, not just simple ilok download license thing.

Besides, some machine activated ilok plugins won't run that easy here on my pc if there's sudden internet outage. I'm taking notes of companies that do it and try to figure out whether it's an actual ilok issue or plugins themselves.

[CSistine]

14 hours ago, chris.r said:

I'm with you on the whole CR thing. But when I bought Sonnox Inflator, it was about a year max two ago, when I first opened the plugin, it took me to a website to authorize it with some codes generated online, iirc. The whole process resembled challenge-response method.. in addition to ilok! Then I stopped buying from that company as I avoid CR plugins for some time now. I'd love to be proven wrong but the activation was real annoying, not just simple ilok download license thing.

Besides, some machine activated ilok plugins won't run that easy here on my pc if there's sudden internet outage. I'm taking notes of companies that do it and try to figure out whether it's an actual ilok issue or plugins themselves.

What I have noticed: Some companies have implemented some kind of iLok authorization "help" that is online and IMHO it is not of help at all (UAD is a very bad example)! But in most cases you can avoid that this code performs by doing the iLok authorization first with the iLok manager (either on a dongle or on the machine), i.e. before you scan the plugin.

By the way, sometimes there are issues with other authorization types, too. E.g. since United Plugins use the Melda authorization code (by the way both use a good file authorization), I had several times the DAW process hanging. I think it has some dependence on the windows and popups coming up, i.e. when I was not patient enough (oh, it took sooo long), it hijacked the process. 😒