Black Friday Plugin Essentials for Voice Actors

Frank Verderosa
Nov 25, 2025
2 min read

Updated: Nov 28, 2025

If you’re doing the kind of voiceover work where you are the last stop—mixed, mastered, and delivering final-ready audio—this post is for you.

Keep an eye out in early 2026 for a series of classes built around these exact tools, designed specifically for audiobook and long-form narration pros.

Whether it's time for an Evaluation or you need one-on-one help, grab a coupon or apply the promo code at checkout to save big!

A Toolkit Worth Owning to Streamline Your Workflow

From Waves (killer Black Friday pricing right now—seriously good deals)

Each of these is currently $29.99:

Voice Rider: Vocal Rider saves you time by riding gain automatically, while preserving the vocal’s full fidelity. Set a target level for the vocal, and Vocal Rider will take care of the rest. It unobtrusively raises or lowers the vocal’s gain to maintain the target level—just as if you were making fast, precise fader moves.
Clarity VX: Got great vocal recordings ruined by unwanted background noise—air conditioner, room rumble, rain, traffic, airplane flyovers, background talking, etc.? Solve these issues with Clarity™ Vx, whose advanced Neural Networks (the same engine as in the larger Clarity™ Vx Pro) are trained to recognize vocals, and separate them from noise.
L4 Ultramaximizer: Are you hitting that ACX spec? Tame those peaks and set that range limit.

From iZotope: Quick Cleanup from the GOAT

Every year, RX Elements drops to around $29 during holiday sales. It’s currently listed at $99, but expect that price to move—this bundle is almost always discounted.

De-Click: Perfect for fast and efficient mouth noise cleanup.
Voice De-Noise plugin. It works really well, but Waves Clarity does a better job for basic issues.
De-Clip: Accidentally distorted a work on a perfect take? This makes light work out of fixing it.
De-Hum: Did a nearby appliance give you and unwelcome hum? This will get rid of it quick!
Repair assistant: A great starting point! It will help identify issues and suggest a place to begin cleaning up.

Once you get your first chapter dialed in, save your settings. Recalling them later will speed up your entire workflow and keep your book sounding consistent from start to finish.

Keep an eye out in early 2026 for small-group classes where we don’t just learn these tools—we actually use them together. You’ll walk away with a solid understanding of what each tool does, when to use it, and—most importantly—how to produce crystal-clear, mastered voice files.

Frank Verderosa is an award-winning audio engineer and voiceover casting director with decades of industry experience. As the owner of POV Audio, he casts, sound-designs, and mixes television, radio, and promo campaigns for leading ad agencies and networks. Outside the studio, Frank supports the voice actor community through coaching, consulting, and demo production for talent at every level. To connect or learn more, visit www.frankverderosa.com and use the chat tab or explore the Voice Actor Services section.