The great thing about the Zynaptiq plugs is they run without anything disabled for ten minutes without you having to pay them a dime. Which, generally, is enough to get in in Audiosuite and fix it.

I've got a movie. It was shot in Vieques Island by a crew whose sound mixer quit on day 2. The last film that shot on Vieques Island was the 1948 version of Lord of the Flies, which had so many problems with the frogs that they bailed for Paris and looped the whole movie. Me? Not only did I have frogs, I had an airport, traffic, generators too close on set and drunk cowboys just off to the side while actors whisper their lines menacingly.

That movie is on SyFy pretty regularly because I got deep enough in RX that I had to automate 11 different parameters in real time.

I know me some room reduction.

FRONT LINE: SPL DeVerb. Cheap, easy, usually fixes things that are easily fixable, low overhead.

NEXT: RX Dialog Denoiser. Only comes in Advanced, but is light enough you can run multiple instances inline without blowing up your CPU.

NEXT: RX Connect. Now that you're able to loop into and out of Pro Tools without having to export/reimport, it's a lot easier to get surgical on RX, but that's new since RX 4. And, you still need to know what you're doing.

NEXT: Unveil. Stupid-high CPU usage, but it often gets things you can't get with anything else. AND, there's no science to it what does as the knobs are labeled nonsensically. BUT you don't have to own it, unlike everything else listed above, to use it.

I used Unveil to make the dialogue in Birdemic 2 in a couple of scenes "good enough to understand" but not "good enough to sound professional." Which is very different from the "bad enough that it really outlines our horrible ADR process."

Opening scenes: no Unveil. "What can I do... to ever repay you" : enough Unveil to make it make sense.