Skip to main content
L
Loopaloo
Buy Us a Coffee
All ToolsImage ProcessingAudio ProcessingVideo ProcessingDocument & TextPDF ToolsCSV & Data AnalysisConverters & EncodersWeb ToolsMath & ScienceGames
Guides & BlogAboutContact
Buy Us a Coffee
L
Loopaloo

Free online tools for developers, designers, and content creators. All processing happens entirely in your browser - your files never leave your device. No uploads, no accounts, complete privacy.

support@loopaloo.com

Tool Categories

  • Image Tools
  • Audio Tools
  • Video Tools
  • Document & Text
  • PDF Tools
  • CSV & Data
  • Converters
  • Web Tools
  • Math & Science
  • Games

Company

  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • FAQ

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Disclaimer

Support

Buy Us a Coffee

© 2026 Loopaloo. All rights reserved. Built with privacy in mind.

Privacy|Terms|Disclaimer
  1. Home
  2. Audio Processing
  3. Noise Gate & Audio Cleaner
Add to favorites

Noise Gate & Audio Cleaner

Remove background noise and unwanted silence with professional noise gate. Adjust threshold, attack, release, and range parameters. Includes presets for voice, music, and aggressive gating.

A noise gate watches the audio level and reduces the signal whenever it falls below a threshold you set. This cleans up low-level background noise, fan hum, room tone, keyboard clicks, during pauses in speech or between musical phrases. You control four parameters: threshold, attack, release, and range, and the gate opens only when the signal rises above your threshold.

Audio processed on your deviceMore audio processingJump to full guide

Initializing in your browser…

You might also like

Text to Speech

Convert text to speech using browser Web Speech API. Choose from multiple voices, adjust speed and pitch, and play audio directly.

Audio Waveform Generator

Generate beautiful waveform visualizations from audio files. Choose from bars, mirror, line, or circular styles. Customize colors and export as PNG.

Silence Detector & Remover

Automatically detect and mark silent sections in audio files. Visual waveform with highlighted silence regions. Remove all silences at once or export individual segments.

Noise Gate & Audio Cleaner: a worked example

A voice track has audible room hiss in the gaps between sentences.

Input

vo.wav · threshold −45 dB · attack 5 ms · release 120 ms
Noise Gate & Audio Cleaner produces

Output

Silences cleaned; speech untouched, no choppy cut-ins

The gate mutes audio below the threshold (the quiet hiss) while letting speech through, and tuned attack/release stops it from clipping word starts or "breathing". It is the fast fix for background noise in the pauses.

Silence the noise between the words

A noise gate watches the audio level and reduces the signal whenever it falls below a threshold you set. This cleans up low-level background noise, fan hum, room tone, keyboard clicks, during pauses in speech or between musical phrases. You control four parameters: threshold, attack, release, and range, and the gate opens only when the signal rises above your threshold.

How to use

  1. 1Upload audio containing background noise
  2. 2Set the threshold just above the noise floor (watch the level meter)
  3. 3Adjust attack, release, and range to taste, or start from a preset
  4. 4Preview the gated audio in real time
  5. 5Apply and download the cleaned MP3

Key features

  • Adjustable threshold, attack, release, and range controls
  • Range control for partial or full attenuation when the gate is closed
  • Real-time level meter that shows the live signal level and whether the gate is open or closed
  • Waveform display that colors gated (red) versus passing (green) regions against the threshold line
  • Four starting presets: Gentle, Moderate, Aggressive, and Voice

When to use it

  • Podcast cleanup

    Reduce background noise during pauses so only the speaker is heard.

  • Drum recording tightening

    Gate individual drum microphones to reduce bleed from other kit pieces.

  • Live stream audio prep

    Mute room noise in recorded segments where you are not speaking.

  • Voiceover post-processing

    Remove air conditioning hum and ambient sounds between lines of narration.

How it works

The gate walks through your audio sample by sample and compares each sample's absolute level to your threshold. When the level is above the threshold the gate opens; when it is below, the gate moves toward a reduced level. The attack time sets how fast the gate opens (short attack catches quick transients), and the release time sets how fast it closes once the signal drops back below the threshold (longer release lets the tail of a sound fade out instead of being chopped off). The range control sets how much the gate attenuates when closed: 100% is full muting, lower values leave some of the original signal through for a more natural result. There is no separate hold timer and no frequency-selective sidechain, the gate keys off the full-band signal level. Four presets (Gentle, Moderate, Aggressive, Voice) load sensible threshold/attack/release/range combinations to start from. Output is encoded to MP3.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find the right threshold?

Play back a silent section and watch the level meter. Set the threshold just above that reading so the gate closes during silence but opens when you speak.

Will a noise gate remove noise during speech?

No. A gate only acts when the signal is below the threshold. For noise that is present while you are speaking, use a noise reduction or spectral subtraction tool instead.

What are good starting values for attack and release?

For speech, try 1-5 ms attack and 50-100 ms release. For music, longer release times (100-300 ms) tend to sound more natural. The Voice preset is a good starting point for spoken content.

Related tools and how they differ

  • Silence Detector & Remover: Finds silent gaps and lists their timestamps, then trims dead air or splits the file into separate clips; use it to actually cut silence and change the duration.

Private by design

Audio is decoded and processed locally with the Web Audio API. Your files are never uploaded to a server.