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Waves Restoration
Waves Restoration
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It’s unavoidable: clicks, crackles, noise, and hum sneak into your audio. Luckily, Restoration offers a streamlined toolset to revive damaged recordings, rejuvenate old vinyl and shellac discs, protect archives, fix deteriorating film and television soundtracks, and clean up live and field recordings.
To bring audio back to life—or clean up sounds for post-production, podcasts, or remixes—Restoration bundles essential repair tools into a convenient, all-in-one audio cleaning solution.
5 Plugins Included
- X-Click
- X-Crackle
- X-Hum
- X-Noise
- Z-Noise
Key Features
- Reduce computer noise, tape hiss, and constant artifacts with X-Noise
- Clear clicks and spikes with X-Click: from vinyl clicks to digital clocking
- Profile unwanted sound and remove it surgically with Z-Noise
- Monitor cleaned audio, or just the audio being removed
- Clean surface noise and other low-level crackling with X-Crackle
- Remove hum from sensitive audio recordings with X-Hum
- Spectral displays and meters show artifact attenuation
- Profile-based processes include “learn” modes to identify artifacts
X-Click is the fast, precise fix for clicks, pops, and impulsive transient noise — the kind of nasty digital-crosstalk pops and old-vinyl clicks that ruin an otherwise great take.
It isolates and displays clicks in real time, then removes them while preserving the sonic integrity of your source — ideal for restoring vinyl and shellac records, cleaning up live recordings, or fixing digital artifacts from clocking errors and sample-rate mismatches.
Key Features
- Visual scope displays click intensity in real time
- Automatic or manual click removal
- Adjustable click shape — sharp digital to wide analog transients
- Audio / Difference monitoring to isolate exactly what's being removed
- Runs at up to 96kHz resolution
X-Crackle removes low-level crackle and surface noise from vinyl records and damaged recordings, using advanced psychoacoustic algorithms that leave the rest of the audio untouched.
Perfect for cleaning up digitized vinyl and old recordings — pairs naturally with X-Click in a restoration chain for a full clean-up pass on damaged source material.
Key Features
- Dual-window scope: waveform + sonogram of crackle being removed
- Adjustable attenuation, from slight to strong
- Threshold control for different crackle levels
- Audio / Difference monitoring switch
- Chains cleanly after X-Click for full vinyl restoration
X-Hum eliminates ground-loop hum, DC offset, and low-frequency rumble — the stuff that quietly kills your low end and eats into your headroom.
Built around eight harmonically linked notch filters, X-Hum surgically targets 50/60Hz hum and its harmonics (plus rumble from turntables, tape machines, and bad connections) without touching the musicality of your bass. Zero latency, virtually no CPU load.
Key Features
- 8 harmonically linked notch filters
- Adjustable DC-offset cutoff filter
- Frequency and amplitude attenuation display
- Zero-latency, low-CPU real-time processing
- Audio and inverse (difference) monitoring modes
X-Noise is a precision broadband noise reduction plugin built on "noiseprint" technology — learn a profile from any isolated section of noise, and X-Noise subtracts it wherever it appears in your track.
Ideal for tape hiss, preamp noise, air conditioner and computer hum, or room rumble on individual tracks, full mixes, or damaged recordings — without compromising the performance you can't re-record.
Key Features
- Noiseprint-based broadband noise reduction
- Familiar dynamics-style controls — Attack, Release, Threshold, Reduction
- Real-time spectral frequency display
- Optional high-frequency shelf EQ post-reduction
- 13 factory presets for when you can't isolate a noise sample
Z-Noise is Waves' more advanced successor to X-Noise — a true broadband noise reduction processor with a more musical algorithm, real-time profiling, and standout transient preservation.
Eliminate hiss and rumble simultaneously with better high-frequency resolution and low-frequency preservation than traditional FFT-based tools. An exclusive Extract mode builds a noise profile even from audio that already contains signal, and Adaptive mode handles noise that shifts over time.
Key Features
- 5-band noise profile shaping EQ
- Extract mode — build a profile from mixed signal + noise
- Adaptive mode for noise that changes over time
- Transient-preservation technology retains musicality
- Enhanced low-frequency resolution and time sensitivity
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