Having finished that project, I had to use eiosis on a couple of tracks as the Deesser module in Nectar 4 just wasn't up to the task. These tape are in bad shape and I had to make the choice between spots of noise or noticeable pumping but still intelligible words — yikes! Oh well, my colleague shouldn't have taped over the Masters 30 years ago. Such is life.

Anyway, Nectar 4's Deesser module / Velvet is all most of us need — uses dynamic eq and not simple filtering like any of the freeware I've ever used. It can't perform miracles, however (neither can eiosis but it can handle tasks overwhelm Velvet).


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