Waves Clarity De-Reverb and De-Reverb Pro

[noiseboyuk]

This looks and sounds excellent.





It claims to handle early reflections too - that’s the really hard stuff.

Very thankful they caved on the stupid subs-only thing. Intro price $99.99 for Pro, $29.99 for regular.

[noiseboyuk]

I demoed it (just select All Products in Waves Central and install). Glad I did because it bears absolutely no resemblance to the demo video (unlike Vx, where it was a good representation). I couldn't make it sound anything other than bloody awful. I tried a variety of long and short tails, and it wrecked the lot - this using Pro, all 3 neural networks and tweaking any control I could find.

After the brilliance of Vx, this is very disappointing. Web-based AI services from Adobe and Descript are now massively better than any plugins you can buy when it comes to many noise-reduction / restoration chores.

[RikkShow]

The ERA6 bundle or iZotope has similar stuff that I think sounds better. FFT frogs are not a feature imo.

[noiseboyuk]

To be fair, I went back to do a 2nd round of tests with more moderately challenging material (my first set were all admittedly tough) and it did well there, I think in some cases better than RX. Like a lot of these sorts of tools, they work well until they fall apart completely.