Remove Background Noise from Any Recording
Hiss, hum, traffic, the fridge — whatever got into your audio, there's a patient, tested way to get it out. Twelve tutorials with exact menu paths, honest starting values, and the warnings that keep you from over-doing it.
Everything here fixes recordings — files that already exist. Live audio is a different problem and a different toolbox; this site is about what's already on your disk.
What are you cleaning?
Phone recordings, notes and interviews — start with the built-in toggles.
Episodes and long spoken audio — upload-and-clean is your friend.
Fix the sound without leaving the editor you're cutting in.
Tapes, voicemails, archives — preservation first, then cleanup.
Free Desktop 3 guides
The free two-pass method, with starting values that work
Diagnose first: notch the hum, profile the hiss
Preservation-first: the order of operations matters
Paid Desktop 4 guides
One checkbox in Essential Sound, or DeNoise for control
Voice Isolation (Studio) or the free Dialogue Leveler route
The noise-print method, the most precise manual tool here
Fix it right in the editor where you're cutting
Online 2 guides
Upload, wait, download — the strongest free repair
Pick the right upload tool for the job in front of you
Mobile 3 guides
One toggle on phone or desktop; know its ceiling
The built-in Enhance toggle, plus the rescue route
Samsung's Audio eraser, or the export-and-clean route
Don't want to do it manually?
Free desktop, paid desktop, online and mobile — graded, timed, and priced against each other.