For around $35.99 the Clarity Vx plugin from Waves seems to be a pretty awesome noise removal plugin. I haven’t tried it yet but the reviews are excellent.
Here’s a video of it completely removing the noise made by a blender!
In podcast production this would come in very handy for cleaning up the noisy audio of a remote guest who has a fan or air conditioner on in the background, or a noisy computer fan running, etc.
From their website:
- Clarity Vx is the highest-quality and the fastest way to clean your vocals from background noise and prepare them for any mix, production, podcast or video.
- Powered by the same Waves Neural Networks® engine as the larger Clarity Vx Pro, Clarity Vx is optimized with a simple interface to guarantee the best of both worlds with zero learning curve: impeccably clean vocals – no artifacts, no damage to the performance – AND results in seconds.
- In the past, cleaning noisy vocal recordings at the highest fidelity required serious engineering know-how, as well as the luxury of time. The solutions were not optimized for musicians on a budget, home producers on a schedule, and content creators who are not professional sound engineers.
- We’ve changed all of that with Clarity Vx.
- Whatever noise you’re dealing with – from light AC or computer fan noise, to heavy traffic outside your bedroom studio window, or anything in between – we have you covered with Clarity Vx. Simply turn the single knob clockwise – and hear the noise go away with the voice quality fully preserved.
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