Waves Clarity Vx

Photo_G wrote on 3/18/2022, 11:35 AM

Not sure how long this plugin has been out there, but I'm curious if anyone is using it and could share some feedback on the noise reduction quality in real-world scenarios? The demo videos are cool, but it's a bit hard to believe that it consistently works across widely varied clips without introducing (at least some) voice artifacts. That's been hard to do, even with RX.

Thanks in advance!

https://www.waves.com/plugins/clarity-vx#clarity-vx-for-content-creators

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Dexcon wrote on 3/19/2022, 2:31 AM

There was this from nearly a week ago: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/help-waves-clarity-vx-noise-reduction-vst-plugin-not-working--134539/#ca839593

It is important to look at the supported hosts for Waves plugins because Vegas Pro is not a supported host for Waves Clarity VX: https://www.waves.com/plugins/clarity-vx#tab-tech-specs|tab-supported-hosts

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RogerS wrote on 3/19/2022, 2:54 AM

I tried it and for $30 got the basic version. I did a couple of tests including an interview in a shop with machines running and another in front of a river and in both it was able to reduce the background noise. It's not magic and running it at 100% will introduce artifacts but it has its uses (and I can't afford dialogue isolate in RX Advanced).

Vegas doesn't really work with it so you'll have to use it in another host.

Photo_G wrote on 3/19/2022, 8:38 AM

@RogerS Thanks for the feedback! I discovered that it wouldn't work in VEGAS during the demo too. I tried using the DDMF Metaplugin host (vst2 and vst3), figuring that it might be a workaround, but no luck.

It does seems to be pretty clean if you don't push it really hard. I'm hosting it in SoundForge 13 and, so far so good.

Anyone else?

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Photo_G wrote on 3/19/2022, 9:52 AM

@Dexcon @RogerS Fwiw, I found that Clarity Vx works just fine in Video Pro X (12), just drop in in the mixer and...voila! Thanks again!