Clarity VX, Silk Vocal and Supertone Clear compared

This Cubase tutorial compares Waves Clarity VX, Waves Silk Vocal and Supertone Clear on spoken and sung recordings. The presenter first uses speech recorded inside a car, then applies the same plugins to a vocal track with background noise.

Clarity VX handles noise reduction. The presenter describes its AI voice separation and demonstrates a main knob for adjusting the processing. He says it can work in real time for streams and podcasts, but warns that pushing it too far can leave a voice metallic and strip away its texture. His advice is to reduce enough noise to make the recording usable rather than chase complete silence.

Silk Vocal addresses tonal problems such as harshness, nasal resonances and irritating frequencies. The demonstration covers its dynamic control, selectable midrange regions and processing amounts for the low and high bands. The presenter uses it alongside Clarity VX to refine the voice after noise removal.

Clear gets a separate test with the other plugins disabled. The presenter demonstrates ambience removal and explains its reverb control, though he notes that the speech example has no reverb to remove. He cautions that aggressive recovery can sound artificial on poor recordings. The tutorial ends with recording advice: reduce room noise, control reflections and adjust microphone distance before relying on cleanup.