@audio/denoise vs Wave Arts Master Restoration Suite 6

@audio/denoise is a free web tool for cleaning recordings and listening to or saving the result. It handles targets including steady background noise, mains hum, clicks, pops, vinyl crackle, clipping, wind rumble, plosives, sibilance, room reverb, and noise between phrases. The page describes thirteen open-source restoration methods and a classifier. Automatic mode measures properties of a recording, selects a specialized method, and displays its plan; users can instead choose methods such as dehum, declick, declip, and gate. Audio is processed in the browser, and the page says it is not uploaded or sent off the device. The approach uses classical signal processing rather than AI noise removal. For music, the page identifies hum, clicks, crackle, and clipping as treatable, while advising light use of broadband denoising and comparison with the original. Machine-learning models may perform better on heavy speech-over-noise. The associated npm package processes mono Float32Array audio. Automatic mode does not choose dereverb, which must be selected explicitly.

Wave Arts Master Restoration Suite 6 is a set of five plug-ins for cleaning up tape, vinyl, digital, and acoustic recordings. MR Noise 6 reduces broadband noise; MR Hum 6 combines hum and buzz removal with brickwall filtering and spectrum analysis; MR Click 6 targets clicks and crackle; and MR Gate 6 attenuates background noise in quiet sections. The fifth plug-in, MasterRestoration 6, provides an all-in-one option. The suite costs $99, paid once and has a fully functional 30-day demo. It runs on macOS 10.13 or later and Windows 7/8/10/11, in AU, VST3, and AAX formats on macOS and VST2, VST3, and AAX on Windows. Apple Silicon is supported natively in the listed Mac formats. These are not standalone applications: they require an audio plug-in host. Mac hosts must be 64-bit; Windows hosts may be 32-bit or 64-bit. Wave Arts or iLok licensing is available.