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Improving the sound

How do I make my voice sound more "studio"?

Turn on Enhance voice. It separates your voice from the background, removes the noise and brings it to a consistent studio loudness — at Subtle, Medium or Strong. Budget roughly two minutes of processing per ten minutes of audio.

Where
Voice Editor → Polish (the second row). Also on a voice clip in the Main Editor, and as the Enhance voice toggle in Export, which runs it over every voice clip at once.
The Enhance voice section in the clip inspector, switched off: a single toggle described as "Removes background noise, room echo, and matches volume". Turning it on reveals the three strengths — Subtle, Medium, Strong.
One toggle per voice clip. Export can run it across all of them.

The difference from plain noise removal: the Noise Remover is fast and only takes noise away, while this rebuilds the sound — it lifts the voice away from the background first, cleans it, then fixes the level, so a voice that drifts between loud and quiet comes back even. That levelling is usually what people actually mean when they say a recording sounds amateur. It is the slower of the two for that reason: seconds, versus about two minutes for every ten minutes of audio.

You can run one polish at a time, not both. That is deliberate: Enhance voice already contains the noise removal inside it, and running the same cleanup twice is exactly what produces a robotic voice. Picking one switches the other off; nothing is lost either way, because your original recording is untouched.

The Export toggle is not a second feature: it is the same enhancement applied in bulk, and it knows what you have already done — it will tell you "already applied to 2 of 3 clips" and only clean the rest.

It is not destructive. Turn it off and you are back to your untouched recording — so it is safe to try at each strength and compare.