MASSIVELY Improve Your Audio with These 4 Effects in Premiere Pro (Tutorial)

In this video, I cover how to fix your audio when recording on a Sony RX100v, Sony RX100vi, Canon G7X, iPhone, or any other camera that doesn't have a mic jack.

Often times those recording can sound tinny and just terrible. In this Premiere Pro tutorial, I'm going to cover the 4 Audio Effect you can use to massively improve the quality of your audio.

Gear I use:

GEAR:
Camera: Canon 5D MK4
Camera 2: Sony RX100v
Lens: Canon EF 16–35mm f/2.8L III USM Lens
Mic: Rode VideoMic Pro Plus
External Monitor: SmallHD Focus
Software: Premier Pro
Music: Epidemic

Let’s be friends:

[augustinemackey]

Effects:
Parametric Equaliser - Low end to 120 to 130 hz
Mastering - Low shelf enabled, reverb to 0
Multiband Compressor - Bring down threshold to match, and increase gain
Hard limiter - Limit to - 3db
(Awesome video btw, helped me so much)

[evilarhan]

Just a quick heads up: you can also set in and out points for a single clip on your timeline by tapping X with the clip selected.

[zachtravels]

1:50 Parametric Equaliser - (Low end to 120 to 130 Hz)
2:53 Loop trick (helps while comparing before and after effects)
4:52 Mastering - (Low shelf enabled, reverb to 0)
5:50 Multiband Compressor - (Bring down the threshold to match, and increase gain)
7:36 Hard limiter - (Limit to - 3db)

[JSecordphoto]

This video saved my ass on a big project with some really hollow sounding audio- I’ve been stressing the last few days trying different effects to fix it, so glad I found this tutorial!

[rogelioreynoso]

The best video so far to fix audio in Premiere. Thank you!!!

[trouvaillebyAamir]

Reverb was already 0 on the second effect. I also like the denoiser effect, its good for noise reductions for indoor audio, you know these little background noises that come in if you aren't recording in a sound proof studio.

[TrajektoryGFX]

I tried using this in 2 of my videos, and the quality was awesome, compared to my original voice! I think the parametric equalizer improves it significantly. Thank you so much man!!!

[XDJk]

hey Kevin Fremon ...
i came for a premiere tutorial ...i did learn a couple of tricks from your video.
1 ) how to loop a section ....didn't know where this little loop button is located .
2) how to make your sound not better just louder ...
i am a composer and sound engineer ... i can tell you that you make the sound louder not cleaner .... all the low end you push up introduces rumble and dirt .... the high end you are pushing makes your ess piercing ... in audio as well as in video to my knowledge it all starts with the source ... record a with good microphone in good environment you will get good sound also in video shoot with good lighting and good camera and you are not gonna need wired tricks like this ...
but i wanted to tell you how to really make you voice sound clearer
don't boost the lows as you did ... instead cut it until you hear your voice starting to get thin, then back of a few Hertz from that point... buy cutting the lows you will hear the high frequency much better, and if you want to give a bass boost to your voice usually around 100-400 hz is the right frequency to give some "bite" . for the highs if it feel's like the voice is too "dark and muffled" you can give a small boost above 5 Khz but some times it will bring the ess so you would need to apply a deesser that basically is a compressor that compresser only the high frequencies .
give this method a try and let me know what you think ...

[simflightpro]

Thank you so much Kevin! This helped a lot.

[denismalizani]

I just attempted my first ever voiceover and it sounds way better after this tutorial. Thanks man. 👌👍

[MrWaffleOfficial]

you're doing an audio tutuorial, remove the background music jees

[ExploringAmbience]

This was very helpful. Thank you so much Kevin!

[brentmip]

Just a quick tip: if you're in Multiband Compressor, you can use the Limiter Margin in the same way as the Hard Limiter. Saves you the use of the last effect :)

[Finn_Dutch]

Really great tutorial, thanks for sharing!!!

[PopCultureCollage]

I have to admit, after trying many YouTube clips on how to get best audio, this one always gives me the best audio, by far. Thank you. Even 5 years after it was made.

[alexadventures]

As an audio engineer I gotta say that the audio processing wasn’t perfect but it’s so nice to know that you have all the tools you need to process audio in premiere without using a different program, thank you for showing the plugins!

[TucsonArizona]

Dude! Your video seriously improved our audio 500% instantly. New subscriber here!

[camshand]

I Apply all to my audio except that mastering one, Looks like it gives the reverb tool which is found in the Audio Clip type side menu so will give it a go.
However, thought i'd point out something as this changed my life haha. In the Audio workspace (not Colour which for some reason you did an Audio tutorial in lol), toggle the small arrow pointing right at the top left of all tracks. This will drop down a bank of Effect Sends, like you'd get in a DAW. Now you can apply these effects to the entire Audio Track, and not to every individual Audio Clip! Speeds up editing 10x

[TheNixterZA]

DUDE!!! You just changed my life!!! The I and O tip, to loop while I fix audio, my man, I cannot express how grateful I am that you shared this titbit!! THANK YOU!!!

[alexandraraipe]

Thank you so much. When I recorded audio for some interviews, you could barley hear them and I got worried, but when I tested this out it sounded so much better. You helped saved the project.