Adobe Podcast/Enhance got worse

[getho]

Podcast ai was good enough to allow me to change my workflow.  In the last month? or few weeks, something has changed.  It's not usable professionally anymore, in fact I struggle to see the point of it.  I now have the ignominity of having to tell my clients "hey you know that great software that meant you didn't have to come to the studio any more, yeah well now you you do".  Current quality has what sounds like compression artifacts and and the sort of swirly dynamics with sources that have been over denoised.  

Could someone from adobe please tell us how and what has changed, and the probability that the previous quality will be restored? 

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[Jared224914734eki]

Hi @getho I am having this same issue. Was working great, then quality went downhill one day. What gives Adobe?!

[Dak Star Equity Coaching]

I agree. Now I cant even get on as it says it is down due to too much traffic. Has anyone heard why there is such a lose of quality?

[robertp99291683]

Same issue here. Podcast was great, Enhance barely made a difference...

[VilleErkkila]

I thought I was the only one, quality has gone way down. Now I am trying out if the Premiere does better job or is it the exactly same as the website version of enhancing the sound.

[EricCT]

I agree as well. Used to be amazing. Now audio that I know cleaned up nicely sounds like a robot and garbled. 

[getho]

Has anyone else found that "enhance" within premiere is not as good as adobe podcast? 

[PaulMurphy]

I thought it would be interesting to run a test and see what comes up. I took a recording of a voice that already sounded studio quality and then created two new versions - one with a lot of background noise and another with a lot of reverb. Then I enhanced them in both Adobe Podcast and Premiere Pro.

I found that both results matched the original studio recording relatively well. However, I would say that the results from Adobe Podcast were better - they had a richer, fuller sound to them, whereas the Premiere Pro versions were bassier and sometimes more "robotic" in places.

Comparing them in Audition's Spectral Frequency Display, I can see that the Adobe Podcast version uses more higher frequencies to recreate the voice, giving it a more natural sound.

Enhanced in Premiere Pro

Enhanced with Adobe Podcast

It would be great to hear back from someone at Adobe about this distinction.

Cheers,
Paul