Cedar Audio was founded in Cambridge, England in 1988 by Gordon Reid and Dr. Bob Craighero with a specific mission: develop audio restoration technology that could genuinely remove noise, clicks and interference from recordings without damaging the underlying audio signal. At a time when noise reduction meant audible artefacts, pumping and the loss of low-level detail, Cedar’s approach — based on sophisticated digital signal processing algorithms rather than simple broadband noise gating — represented a fundamental breakthrough. The result was processing that could remove noise invisibly, without the listener being aware that any processing had taken place.

The company’s tools quickly became the standard for broadcast organisations, film studios and post-production houses that needed to clean up location recordings, archive material and live broadcast audio. The BBC, ITV, CNN, Al Jazeera and virtually every major broadcaster in the world uses Cedar processing as part of their standard workflow. In the film industry, Cedar’s dialogue enhancement tools are used on major productions where location sound requires restoration before it can be used in the final mix — the kind of processing that makes the impossible possible in post production.

Cedar’s product range covers hardware units for real-time broadcast processing and plug-in versions for post-production workflows in all major professional DAWs. The DNS (Dialogue Noise Suppressor) series is particularly widely used in broadcast — a single Cedar DNS unit can clean up noisy location audio in real time, making it broadcast-usable in live scenarios where re-recording is impossible. For the MENA region’s rapidly growing broadcast and film production sectors, Cedar represents the professional standard for audio that must be heard clearly, regardless of the conditions in which it was recorded.