Zap Noise with Arboretum's new Ray Gun

September 26, 1997 -- Arboretum Systems is wiping out noise and blasting the price/performance barrier with their new Ray Gun noise reduction software, debuting at the 103rd AES convention in New York this week.

Ray Gun is a low-cost, high-powered noise reduction solution. Audio enthusiasts and project studio operators will pull out the Ray Gun for audio restoration, dialog clean-up, music recording or dozens of other applications. Ray Gun selectively removes hiss, hum, crackles, pops and other unwanted audio, but leaves the original signals intact.

Ray Gun is simple to use-just point and shoot to zap the noise from any sound file. Ray Gun will locate the noise components in any signal and wipe them out automatically, or use Ray Gun's Offset, Threshold and Gain controls to fine-tune the process. Combining sophisticated pop and click detection with complex spectral analysis, downward expansion and notch filtering, Ray Gun is like the science fiction weapon it was named after: Small, fast, simple to use and packed with devastating technology.

"We've been getting many requests for a powerful but inexpensive noise reduction solution, particularly from people who are converting their old vinyl and tape collections into digital formats," says Arboretum founder Georges Jaroslaw. "We decided to adapt the noise reduction technology from our Ionizer program, combine it with pop and click removal, and make it all as easy-to-use as pulling a trigger. Ray Gun is aimed at beginning recordists and audio hobbyists, those who struggle the most with noisy signals ... So we're releasing Ray Gun at a price that any computer owner can easily afford."

Ray Gun's spectral analysis and downward expansion algorithms were derived from Arboretum's Ionizer package, which is a professional noise reduction and mastering system that has gained wide acclaim for its great-sounding results.

For more information, visit their web site at www.arboretum.com.