Does Izotope ever run specials on their RX ADVANCED package?

They had a special on it last month until the 27th, according to my email. So "yes" and "crap, looks like you just missed it". Dunno about upgrades, but all "specialist software" companies I've approached about that kind of thing have been really decent about it.

No upgrade price quoted. Basic says 249, reg 349. Advanced 749, reg 1199. Email dated Sept 12th.

I do own a few of their products, and won't buy em till they are on offer (iris , ozone, alloy) .. like more .e.g. wave's like it or not they will have to cut their prices to get more custom..
 
wait till xmas time.. start saving your money.. and you'll find a sale either then or in January.. all pro audio companies that have any sense will do offers then . ( main reason I bought fabfilter's bundle :) )
 
 
 

dantarbill
I'm a big fan of RX...however...even their "low low" price was way too rich for me. 

That's where I am too.  RX3 is magic.  I bought it soon after they announced version 3, and I have used it quite a lot to clean up live recordings and to do other little touch-up jobs.  I hated to part with the $299, but the basic package has a lot of capability.  There is one feature in the Advanced package I would use heavily, which is the noise reduction that can separate tonal material from background noise.  I'd love to have that, but I'm not paying $700 for that. 

jimusic
I got RX3 for $208.50 instead of $249.00 at Plugin Discounts a month or so ago.   

Come to think of it, I believe I got an introductory discount from the Izotope website.  But I haven't seen anything that would bring the Advanced upgrade into range.  That seems like a huge gap from the basic product to the advance one (list pricing $1200 vs. $350).  The Advanced product has great features, but a spread of over 300% ???
 
I guess they figure they can sell the Advanced product to TV stations and other larger businesses that have a lot more money than the average recording studio, let alone the average recording hobbyist.

WallyG
Can you actually get rid of audience noise? I always thought that was impossible to do.

Yes and no.  All the other noise reduction tools I've tried (and those we all freebies)really fouled up the good material, so I could never use those except in really dire situations.  RX3 really can remove noise without really hurting the program.  If you are asking whether it is possible to completely eliminate background noise with no hard whatsoever to the program material, no that isn't likely to happen.  But even the basic RX3 can do a very useful amount of noise removal, leaving good sounding program content. 
 
The Advanced program has a "deconstruct" capability that can separate tonal material from non-tonal.  I have not used that, but I presume that if your program is highly tonal (not percussion), it should be able to dig a lot deeper to extract just the tonal content.  Here's an example of extracting only the NON-tonal part, but you can go the other way too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6dOOi77ko