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Accusonus ERA Bundle from $299

A suite of great quality plugins for post- and musicproduction repair and noise reduction work. The Pro package adds more heavyweight denoise/reverb/ess tools, and a Room Tone Match for Pro Tools, but at quite a price jump. Their subscription option is worth considering. accusonus.com

Steinberg SpectraLayers 8 from £25

A combination of a flexible spectrographic UI coupled with a host of repair and restoration tools (in the Pro package) that can perform utilitarian and highly creative duties, layering and deconstructing audio as it goes. ARA 2 support enables

DAW project window integration for Cubase and

Nuendo users. steinberg.net