How to easily remove background noise from vocals with one click

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Your best microphone is surely the one you have with you when inspiration strikes. And, as many singers, rappers and vocalists will understand, a creative idea for a melody or phrase might spark while you’re on a walk, on the train, or even in a laundry room. These are noisy places, and microphones on modern smartphones and earbuds are probably going to pick up some background noise, even if they capture your voice very effectively.

You might think that it takes audio wizardry to salvage your vocal recording from the hubbub of a laundry dryer or noisy reflections in a bathroom, but BandLab’s Voice Cleaner will help you with just one tap.

BandLab’s new feature is available directly from the BandLab app on your smartphone and in your browser. But just how convincing is this new AI-powered feature? Can it really help your vocal recording shine, even in the weirdest of environments?

To find out, we’re testing the effectiveness of BandLab’s Voice Cleaner in three areas: Background noise, room reflections, and frequency issues. You can watch below as we record vocals in bustling woodland, a living room with poor acoustics, and a shower room — all using the microphone of a cheap pair of wired earbuds.

How does BandLab Voice Cleaner work?

BandLab’s Voice Cleaner uses an AI-powered engine to remove background noise, reduce unwanted echoes, and balance the frequencies in your vocal recordings. These are cleanly integrated into there features, which you can toggle on or off: Noise Remover, DeReverb and AutoEQ.

To access these tools, simply click on your audio recording within your BandLab project, click Voice Cleaner, and wait a few seconds for it to work its magic.

Voice Cleaner is available to all BandLab users with a BandLab Membership.

A BandLab Membership gives you over 50 additional creator tools within the BandLab app in your web browser or on your iPad, iPhone or Android device. This lets you compose, create and arrange music, with innovative tools built in, including automatic track mixing, visual EQ, advanced voice processing and auto-generation with Extend, Re-compose and Layer composition and arrangement features. Along with Voice Cleaner comes Voice Changer, which lets you change the sound of your voice with 15 different vocal styles.

BandLab’s Membership price is currently at its lowest ever, at just $70 for the year, which is the equivalent of $5.80 per month. You can claim this deal now at BandLab.com.