Bench Notes

Four short reads on cleaner recordings — including the article that tells you how to never need the tool at all. We're comfortable with that.

How-to

How to remove background noise from a recording

The noise-sample trick, picking a strength, and knowing when to stop.

Prevention

Why your recordings hiss

Gain staging in plain words — fix it at the source and skip the cleanup.

Under the hood

How noise reduction actually works

Spectral gating, honestly explained — including its failure sounds.

Phones

Recording clean audio on a phone

Distance beats gear: the two-fist rule and the rooms that ruin takes.