Acoustica Premium Edition 7.1 also comes with a fully featured multi-band compressor and with an impressive and very advanced equalizer. Let’s start with the simpler ones, like batch conversion through the processing chain that could be comprised of all available internal processors and third party VST plugins. OK, let’s be fair, Acoustica Premium Edition 7.1 offers plenty of other professional tools that aren’t found on any freeware audio editor or even on most of the lite versions of some more advanced editors. I found a few simple tasks proved to be a bit more complicated than they should be, not to mention that I also found some basic functions missing, those that even come with the majority of other freeware audio editors. My only concern is the fact that while it obviously offers everything that you’ll ever need for audio restoration, being extremely user-friendly in this area, even if you are not totally at home in audio restoration, everything becomes a bit trickier when some more basic functions need to be applied.

In the audio cleaning field it seems that Acoustica Premium Edition 7.1 is an absolute bargain for this kind of quality. Experimenting with DeNoise, DeCliper, DeHumer and DeClicker, along with some spectral cleaning, I found that Acoustica has really nailed it. I spent some time going through some of my older video clips that had some hiss and other audio issues, and took some vinyl takes from my collection. Being disappointed with most of those “Lite” versions I decided to give Acoustica Premium Edition 7.1 a go, and they prove to have everything that you’ll ever need for delicate audio tasks for less money than the advanced tools. The problem is that I need such a specific tool maybe once or twice in a month, and when I need it it should be fully functional. This advanced price range is acceptable if audio editing is your day job. Advanced professional versions that offer good audio cleaning tools, batch conversion, some spectral cleaning and various other audio tools needed for broadcast or movie production appear in the, let’s call it, “advanced” price range, starting from $400 USD and going steeply upwards. Lite versions of well-known audio editors offer some additional features that can’t be found in free or really cheap editors, but not enough for any serious professional work. But as soon as you need some advanced features everything becomes a bit trickier.

There are numerous free audio editors available and some of them offer an impressive number of audio editing options, tools and effects. If you are a pro on a budget, then this one merits your attention. An audio editor with the best price / performance ratio on the market.

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