# Clean up & level guides

19 how-tos and comparisons for Audio enhancer, Remove noise, Remove echo, and the rest of Clean up & level.

Its first tool: https://audo.ai/audio-enhancer.md

- [Adobe Podcast Enhance Speech: Free Limits and What to Do with Long Files](https://audo.ai/guides/adobe-podcast-enhance.md) (Comparison: Adobe Podcast): What Enhance Speech is, what the free plan allows, what Firefly Pro adds, and how to clean up an episode or a video that's over the limits.
- [Auphonic Alternatives for Podcast & Video Audio Clean-Up](https://audo.ai/guides/auphonic-alternative.md) (Comparison: Auphonic): How Auphonic's automated leveling and publishing compare with Audo AI, Adobe Podcast Enhance, Descript, Cleanvoice, and desktop tools.
- [Can ChatGPT or Claude Remove Background Noise and Transcribe Audio?](https://audo.ai/guides/can-chatgpt-remove-background-noise.md) (How-to: ChatGPT, Claude): Why plain chat models can't clean audio waveforms on their own, and how to give ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor real audio tools in one minute.
- [Podcast Loudness: What LUFS to Aim For on Spotify, Apple & YouTube](https://audo.ai/guides/podcast-loudness-lufs.md) (How-to: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube): Official loudness and true-peak targets for every major platform, what LUFS and dBTP mean, and how to hit −16 LUFS without clipping.
- [How to Even Out a Quiet Podcast Guest and Fix Interview Echo](https://audo.ai/guides/fix-quiet-guest-and-interview-echo.md) (How-to): Why normal volume boosters and live call filters fail on remote interviews, and how to fix uneven speaker volume and hollow room reverb after the call.
- [The Cheapest Way to Clean Up Hours of Podcast Audio](https://audo.ai/guides/cheapest-way-to-clean-up-podcast-audio.md) (Comparison): Cleaning up hours of podcast audio costs from nothing to about $2.40 an hour on the plans below, depending on the tool, the job, and how much you do.
- [Descript Studio Sound Alternatives](https://audo.ai/guides/descript-studio-sound-alternative.md) (Comparison: Descript): How to get a studio-quality voice without a Descript plan, for long recordings up to 10 hours, or without moving your work into an editor.
- [How to Make a Phone Recording Sound Like a Studio](https://audo.ai/guides/make-phone-recording-sound-like-studio.md) (How-to: iPhone, Android): Why phone recordings sound thin and echoey, what the iPhone's own settings do, and how to fix the file you'll share.
- [How to Remove Echo from a Room Recording](https://audo.ai/guides/remove-echo-from-room-recording.md) (How-to): Why rooms echo, why a noise filter doesn't help, and how to make a voice from a big or empty room sound close and clear.
- [How to Clean Up Plaud Note and AI Voice Recorder Audio (and Fix Speaker Labels)](https://audo.ai/guides/plaud-note-audio-cleanup.md) (How-to: Plaud Note): Why Plaud Note and NotePin recordings in meetings, cafés, and lecture halls pick up room noise and miss speaker turns, and how to clean and re-transcribe the exported MP3 or M4A.
- [How to Clean Up a Voice Recording for Voice Cloning (ElevenLabs & More)](https://audo.ai/guides/clean-voice-sample-for-cloning.md) (How-to): Why generative speech enhancers flatten voice clones, and how to strip background hiss, room echo, and dead air while keeping the speaker's natural timbre.
- [How to Fix a Muffled, Distant, or Noisy iPhone Voice Memo](https://audo.ai/guides/fix-muffled-iphone-voice-memo.md) (How-to: iPhone, Voice Memos): Why iPhone Voice Memos sound underwater, distant, or noisy—including iOS Voice Isolation and pocket recordings—and how to repair the M4A file itself.
- [DaVinci Resolve Voice Isolation: Why It's Missing and How to Do It Without Studio](https://audo.ai/guides/davinci-resolve-voice-isolation.md) (How-to: DaVinci Resolve): Why the Voice Isolation switch isn't in the free version of DaVinci Resolve, what Fairlight's built-in filters do, and how to clean a clip's dialogue outside Resolve.
- [ElevenLabs Voice Isolator: File Limits, Price per Hour, and Alternatives](https://audo.ai/guides/elevenlabs-voice-isolator.md) (Comparison: ElevenLabs): What ElevenLabs Voice Isolator does, how its credit pricing works out per hour, its 1-hour and 500 MB file caps, and what to use for longer recordings, video, or songs.
- [How to Remove Background Noise in CapCut (and What to Do When Pro Blocks Export)](https://audo.ai/guides/remove-background-noise-capcut.md) (How-to: CapCut): Where to find Reduce noise, Enhance voice, and Voice isolation in CapCut on desktop, mobile, and web, why CapCut lets you preview Pro audio cleanup before locking export, and how to remove background noise in CapCut without Pro.
- [VEED & Kapwing Clean Audio Limits: How to Remove Video Noise Without a Watermark](https://audo.ai/guides/veed-kapwing-clean-audio-alternative.md) (Comparison: VEED, Kapwing): What happens when you try VEED.io's Dolby-powered background noise remover or Kapwing's Clean Audio (Magic Mic) on a free account, why both put a watermark in the corner of your video, and how to clean video audio in your browser without a monthly subscription.
- [How to Remove Background Noise in Adobe Premiere Pro (All 3 Built-In Methods)](https://audo.ai/guides/remove-background-noise-premiere-pro.md) (How-to: Premiere Pro): When to use Enhance Speech vs. the Essential Sound Repair sliders vs. the DeNoise and DeReverb effects in Adobe Premiere, why Enhance Speech is greyed out or turns stereo clips into mono, and how to clean raw footage in your browser.
- [How to Remove Background Noise in Audacity: Best Settings, Hum Fix, and Echo Limits](https://audo.ai/guides/remove-background-noise-audacity.md) (How-to: Audacity): How the two-step Get Noise Profile workflow works in Audacity 4.0.1, what the three Noise Reduction sliders actually do, why Audacity can't remove room echo or changing noise, and how to clean tracks when you don't have a clean noise sample.
- [Best AI Noise Removal Tools in 2026: 9 Tools Compared](https://audo.ai/guides/best-ai-noise-removal-tools.md) (Comparison): A side-by-side comparison of Audo AI, Adobe Podcast Enhance Speech, Descript Studio Sound, Auphonic, Cleanvoice AI, iZotope RX 12, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Audacity 4.0.1, and Krisp across voice preservation, file caps, video support, and cost per hour.

All guides: https://audo.ai/guides.md

Every tool: https://audo.ai/llms.txt
