Clarity Vx DeReverb: AI Room and Reverb Removal for Vocals

The plugin is built around one control that handles AI room and reverb removal for vocals and dialogue. Waves says the underlying neural networks were trained on many types of reverberant spaces, including rooms with both long and short tails, so the processing is not limited to one kind of echo.

Speech and sung vocals are handled by dedicated neural networks, so you can pick the material that matches your recording rather than applying a single general-purpose process. This makes the plugin relevant to spoken-word projects as well as vocal tracks.

Waves describes the technology as its Neural Networks approach and notes that it has been used by Grammy and Oscar winners.

Clarity Vx DeReverb fits producers who record vocals outside a treated studio and need to rescue takes that sound too roomy. It is also useful for anyone working with dialogue, such as podcast editors, who need speech to sit cleanly in a mix.

Producers who sample vocals from online clips or field recordings can use it to make material with too much reverb usable as a sample source. The plugin is available as a VST2, AU and AAX plugin, so it can be placed in common digital audio workstations on supported systems.