I recently received some stems from a co-writer for a remix, and I found the vocals to be too wet. I spent a little (admittedly very little) time looking at options and ended up purchasing the Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb, having had good results in removing room noise from live sources by using another Waves offering, Clarity Vx.
My situation wasn’t critical but I was quite pleased with the results-essentially a dry vocal to work with. It does what it says on the tin-for $34.99. I’m sure it can be gotten for cheaper given Waves’ endless promotions, but I needed it now and I’m happy with it.
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Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb
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Lawrence
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RobS
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Re: Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb
Thanks Larry for the info, not that I immediately need to de-reverb something, but good to know there’s a plugin that works.
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Guy Rowland
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Re: Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb
I didn't get on great with my demo of DeReverb, but like all these things it is VERY source-dependent.
I'm going to reveal a dirty secret. These days the tool I use the most for dialogue is Adobe Podcast Enhance. It's free for short clips. It turns almost any old shit into studio quality audio. It works in a totally different way to all the other tools out there that try to separate the audio into different components It uses AI to reconstruct what is missing. The harder it works, the more you notice it change someone's voice. But for 95% of my uses, putting in sort-of-ok audio but far from perfect, it is honestly seamless. And absolutely astonishing.
I often then have to degrade it to sound more natural, but that's pretty trivial. The subs version has sliders to affect the amount of clean vs original, but of course you can do that yourself.
What I haven't tried yet is sung material. Next time I'm idle I must give it a whirl.
I'm going to reveal a dirty secret. These days the tool I use the most for dialogue is Adobe Podcast Enhance. It's free for short clips. It turns almost any old shit into studio quality audio. It works in a totally different way to all the other tools out there that try to separate the audio into different components It uses AI to reconstruct what is missing. The harder it works, the more you notice it change someone's voice. But for 95% of my uses, putting in sort-of-ok audio but far from perfect, it is honestly seamless. And absolutely astonishing.
I often then have to degrade it to sound more natural, but that's pretty trivial. The subs version has sliders to affect the amount of clean vs original, but of course you can do that yourself.
What I haven't tried yet is sung material. Next time I'm idle I must give it a whirl.
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Lawrence
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Re: Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb
That’s my use case FWIW. Vocals (sung.)
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Guy Rowland
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Re: Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb
Okay I just ran a test of Podcast Enhance on sung vocal - I can't post the results cos it's for a thing.
It was a vocal stem with reverb baked in. Just wanted to see what it would do. The good news - no obvious artefacts at all for the most part. Reverb gone completely. Pristine - mostly. However, the bad news is for some reason it didn't like a line in the pre chorus and it resulted in some weird ducking effect.
Not a typo. Ducking.
The other good news - it's free. So if anyone has any problematic vocals that other tools can't touch, nothing to be lost by giving it a whirl and seeing what happens. Curious to know what you find.
https://podcast.adobe.com/en/enhance
It was a vocal stem with reverb baked in. Just wanted to see what it would do. The good news - no obvious artefacts at all for the most part. Reverb gone completely. Pristine - mostly. However, the bad news is for some reason it didn't like a line in the pre chorus and it resulted in some weird ducking effect.
Not a typo. Ducking.
The other good news - it's free. So if anyone has any problematic vocals that other tools can't touch, nothing to be lost by giving it a whirl and seeing what happens. Curious to know what you find.
https://podcast.adobe.com/en/enhance