In this article, I will take you through the seemingly rudimentary process of sending to and printing back to Pro Tools from RX using the RX Connect plugin in the AudioSuite menu. The quality and power of processing using the stand-alone iZotope RX, rather than the plugin versions are much greater, plus there are many things that iZotope RX can do that there aren’t plugins for, so it’s well worth learning how to get audio to and from iZotope RX from your DAW cleanly. With this paradigm-shifting revelation, I learned very quickly that the real power of iZotope’s restoration software is contained in a vital, omnipotent package outside the Pro Tools experience. I still have the anxious email chain in my archives and it appears I have a helpful man named Joel from iZotope to thank for pointing me to what RX is actually all about: The Standalone software. It would be nearly a year until I upgraded to RX4 and when I did, one of my favourite plug-ins, “Spectral Repair,” had been dropped as an AudioSuite option. I knew I’d need to be able to dig out the ‘prankee’ from whatever mic I could mic hiss, cloth moves, buzz, hum, plosives and all. These mics were located on the host, hidden on the pranksters and surreptitiously around the location.

I was headed into my fledgeling business’s first TV series, which was a reality-based prank show each show had as many as 17 mic’s. I’d been exposed to the original RX plugin package and even used RX2 a fair bit.

When I started freelancing in the summer of 2013, I built my Pro Tools 11 HD system, iZotope’s RX3 software was near the top of my plug-in wish list.

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