Mix, edit and finish

How to clean up a noisy or echoey vocal

Split the track and ask “clean up the noise on the vocals” or “take the room echo out”. On Studio, the clean-up runs on that stem and the result comes back to the player.

Studio: clean-up uses HD and AI minutes.

What it looks like in the chat

The audioworker chat after the message “Clean up the noise on the vocals.”: The room echo is taken out of the vocal stem. Solo the vocals to hear the difference; the band is untouched. The audioworker chat after the message “Clean up the noise on the vocals.”: The room echo is taken out of the vocal stem. Solo the vocals to hear the difference; the band is untouched.
The chat after “Clean up the noise on the vocals.”

Step by step

  1. Split the song so the voice is on its own stem.
  2. Say what bothers you: noise, hiss or room echo.
  3. Confirm the price card.
  4. Compare the cleaned stem with the original.

Say it your way

  • Clean up the noise on the vocals.

  • Take the room echo out of the voice.

  • Denoise the whole mix.

Good to know

Noise reduction takes out steady background sound such as hiss or hum. Echo removal takes out the sound of the room. Running either on the vocal stem alone leaves the band untouched.

Clean-up is useful before a remix or a master, and on home recordings where the room shows. Like mastering, it uses GPU time, so the price shows first.

Plan Studio: clean-up uses HD and AI minutes.

Try it on your own song.