How to Make Your Audio Better in Adobe Premiere

[@Shadeon]

bro I SWEAR UR THE BEST u changed the way my videos sound I did it to my last video and it made it sound 100000 times better your the best bro I can't thank you enough

[@semalau11]

literally use this video every week. thank you

[@The_Xgroove]

This is such a good explanation of the multiband compressor. This helped so much. Thank you!

[@nicholaspage7397]

Hi FStoppers, just letting you know that you can help get rid of the low rumble before the compressor with a quick high pass filter (eq). That way your compressor won’t be reacting to any low subs that you can barely hear.

[@PatrikGluchowski]

thank you, much appreciated

[@robertmyers4390]

@@PatrikGluchowski HPF so easy lol,,,,

[@danielclaudio5764]

@robert myers who cares?

[@hadesonholiday]

Super helpful! Thanks for the tuturial!

[@rafapucpr]

Simply the best video on how to improve sound in adobe premier!

[@missuxbridgewargirlseries375]

Superb tutorial many, many thanks what a difference to the sound quality, have a great New year.

[@galianophoto]

i have that same wrist brace on your desk. very helpful video

[@Darko0089]

You need to High Pass Filter to try to actually fix those plosives, actually you should use a pop filter or just approach the mic differently (even if the Rode Broadcaster has a built in pop filter, it's clearly not enough). I recommend you just drop the multiband compressor, just add an EQ dipping the mid range and add a regular compressor, and leave the limiter just for the loudest parts. And you also should add the noise reduction BEFORE the compressor to each track for the best result.

[@synthjorisendedraak]

+1 on everything, especially the noise gate. Now you're boosting the noise on each track, and then trying to get rid of it after it has been mixed down. I would use on the seperate tracks: noise gate -> eq -> compressor. And then limiter on the master, maybe some slight eq tweaks to compensate for the room.

[@mikemorgan3837]

Thank you for this detailed explanation of the MBC.

[@mrmauz4419]

This is great, thank you!

[@gregcugier6345]

Thanks for the excellent info! I'm happy to confim my compressor page popped up full size in July '22

[@FStoppers]

Hey look at that! It does for me too. I mainly use it in the Audio Track Mixer now instead of on individual clips. -P

[@bobsamurai]

Save a preset? you can't save presets for audio track mixer, but you can recreate these settings with drag and drop effects. Once you've recreated these settings, ctrl click both to highlight, right click, then "save preset"

[@aluckyjar]

This is a really helpful tutorial - thanks

[@BoReynolds]

This is THE MOST insane processing I've EVER seen! You guys, COME ON....dial it back....Daial it WAAAY back!

[@pashubhatt]

Thankyou Patrick. Very good post. With several tutorials available out there for cleaning/enhancing dialogue audio, yours stands out a great deal. I found it well fulfilling. It shows how deep you're queued into the process. Great going. And ones again, big help, thankyou for sharing.

[@FlyEnri]

Hey guys, thanks a lot, I just used some of your tips and improved a lot the audio on a video I have to deliver, you're awesome!

[@3YearsApart1613]

Great tutorial. I will be using this.

[@misterlove7034]

Ah, this is what I was looking for!! Thank you, Sir!

[@konixtwenty8275]

Fantastic video. Very easy to follow and to the point. You are a great professional. I learned a lot from your video and helped me with my movie.

[@michaelallen3720]

You explained this very well. Thank you for you detailed video

[@followtheboat]

This is a great tut, thank you.

[@katciemiega7499]

Thank you, you've explained very clearly and added reasons why. Very helpful.

[@milkcoffee-h8g]

Thank God, you make this video I've been struggling with audio settings, thanks

[@marvinbeatz6266]

Good job...multiband comp is not really designed for this, but its a good aplication

[@marvinbeatz6266]

@@LuLeBe he is using a multiband comp as a EQ and De esser

[@JamAshleyFilms]

My wife thinks I'm cheating on her with this video because I come back to it so often. Brilliant explanation and I copy your settings almost every project.

[@BrianBakerCA]

Fantastic video! Keep up the good work guys!

[@bakabachannel]

this tips really helps me, thank you

[@Sergeant_Blain]

Great video! finally some real advice, and IM REALLY glad i saw your video, I hadent even turned on the limiter!!!! ahha I thought I used it but nope! :D thx!!

[@Strixphoto]

This was just what I was looking after and needed 👍🏻👍🏻😉

[@aaayerus]

Terrific! Good job!

[@ezequielzion]

amazing! thank you

[@webingerphoto49]

Patrick...this video has helped me out tremendously for my audio! Kudos!

[@HitWaveMusic]

Are you telling me you can't hold alt and just drag a duplicate plugin from one track to another like in pro tools? Or at least copy and paste the settings so you can have the same starting point for the compressor on your second channel....

[@PeruvianTreeProductions]

“How is this still a bug?” Basically what I say everyday using Premiere.

[@DennisAbad]

haha Premiere Pro is one big bug, growing with each version.

[@CarolineFarrow]

@@DennisAbad they actually fixed this with the last update

[@arwenkettering9883]

This is awesome. Made a huge difference. Thanks so much!

[@TheTalkingApe]

This is a fantastic tutorial, thank you

[@ChrisParayno]

This has saved me so much time on the audio end! Thanks for this.

[@RossWilcox]

8:45, the B button does not stand for Brickwall, it is a bypass button to turn OFF the limiter effect. So when you tell people to make sure it's on, you're actually telling them to make sure it doesn't do anything. S = Solo, B = Bypass in the Multiband Compressor.

[@FStoppers]

This is interesting because yes the S and B buttons do refer to that under the individual parameters but now that I play with the latest version of Premiere, the B next to the limiter box (far right side) doesn't seem to do anything when clicked. If I click the B or S on the 4 band eq, I can here it turn off or solo those bands but not with the B on the Limiter box. -P

[@RossWilcox]

@@FStoppers Strange. I wonder whether this functions correctly in Audition or not. I do 90% of my mixing in Premiere, probably to my own detriment thanks to bugs like these. Thanks for looking into it.

[@ThomasAgain]

SUPER helpful in editing my new KZbin vids, thx for this video!

[@poolboyinla]

I was hoping for a new video about Ritz Camera.

[@FStoppers]

Travis Kraft I argued with Lee that we can’t release them all back to back. I was worried people would ask if you saw the Ritz video and people would ask “which one?” -P

[@poolboyinla]

@@FStoppers I was hoping for a back to back upload of those. That is one of the best videos you have released in the past few years. I still remember your video on your personal channel where you are on a boat, getting the message from Ritz that they closed down.

[@FStoppers]

Travis Kraft just wait...omg...just wait! The story of how Lee got fired is one of the greatest stories of all time. -P

[@MrRazNZ]

DAE just smash on a Hard Limiter preset? So much quicker and easier and with basically the same results.

[@SizzlingPopcorn]

Very helpful! Can I set these all to default and change them as needed?

[@tvsjohnhansen]

Awesome! Loved it! Thank you. I've been doing non-linear editing since 2004 and I love learning new things. I'm curious what you would have done to the next portion of dialogue that began clipping at around 9:34 in the video.

[@christianmejia4839]

Thank you so much for this video..

[@shkspear52]

So So SO very helpful...thank you!!!

[@PilotPlater]

just started getting into premiere more, appreciate this a lot.

[@peterjung5924]

Thank you so much for this guys. Really learned a lot!

[@davidalanmedia]

Great video. Thanks for making this a little less complicated.

[@tmcmodels123]

Thanks for this.... Please what can I do right Now.. I added a tube compressor and denoiser to my video but I couldn't play back due to system's fault.... After I exported the video I now realised that the audio effects is not good and the rushes have been deleted from my system... please is there a way I can correct the denoiser and tube compressor effects from the already exported video in premier pro...

[@the_giant01]

veryyyyy helpful n clear thank you

[@msmasello]

thanks, mate. that was very helpful.

[@BorutPeterlinPhotography]

I think I could do this... Thank you!

[@Bonrod]

Mn i got lost on the master clip. How did you make that master clip to be shown in the timeline?

[@DancersandDogs]

Super Helpful! Thanks

[@esbirro2006]

Increible ayuda para los aprendices. Tengo varios cursos de los Fstoppers y son todos excelentes.

[@hcarloscarlitos9973]

Thank you sir

[@joostwierenga]

very helpful, thanks

[@KG47M]

Isn't the B in the MBC means bypass, so when you hit B it doesn't actually turns on the limiter but bypasses it, am I right?

[@legobuilderfrom2000]

Great video, also good news they fixed the bug, when i opened multi band compressor it shows the whole window

[@azzammasyout840]

thanks

[@MassStash]

Only bummer about using the mixer and applying to whole audio layer is you can load presets, right?

[@FStoppers]

Not sure I understand. You can load presets and copy them to different layers yes. -P

[@TwistedPretzelPro]

I'm pretty sure the "B" means by-pass. So highlighting that would actually turn the limiter off.

[@tvsjohnhansen]

I think you're right. It seemed to re-engage when he entered -3 at 8:43

[@mantavisions2362]

thanks!!

[@toby-o-rink]

Hey, I have an audio recording where the lows are a bit missing at the beginning, but in the middle they are there. Can I adjust the sound for only a part of the audio clip? thx

[@dsha2006]

U used margin to set the limiter high, but another video used the "threshold" option to do that. I used threshold and it worked so what's the diff?

[@joaomestre2584]

Do you really need to click on that B button on limiter? Or just by changing the Margin parameter it will work...? Thanks!

[@RossWilcox]

Don't click the B button if you want the limiter to do anything. It is a bypass button

[@nwakeham]

Hey, when i click the "limiter" button to activate it and change to -3 it the deactivates after a while? Is this important?

[@gwap9734]

why dont I have a effects chain on my setuper

[@Nieevefivem]

I haven’t created a single project on there. On my iPhone and iPad on the other hand, I’ve created multiple s and soft in just one

[@SHVWNCOOPER]

i got around that by just saving my workspace with the compressor sized how i want it. i still don't know how to really use multiband but it's there lol

[@IgorOli]

It's fixed now btw! 3:18

[@cenadj]

Guys, any idea how to make a preset out of these settings?

[@bobsamurai]

you have to remake the settings with drag and drop effects. Afterwards, ctrl click both multi band and de noiser, right click, "save preset"

[@philduch]

I bet you guys met at the Ritz Camera store...isn't it ? :) Nice video Philippe from Belgium

[@FStoppers]

philippe duchemin one thing you probably don’t realize is....-P

[@TheJohnArmless]

just be careful in adding noise reduction on the master lane, cause if you have music it will act on that as well. Btw 40% is often way to high!

[@LumpiDeluxe]

Is it not possible to set the Multiband-Compress on the Master-channel, like in Audition?

[@FStoppers]

RT 76 you can yes, but you want to solve the individual channels’ problems first. I didn’t address the idea of also having a soundtrack on this production and anything placed on the master will affect the music as well. I try to get each channel to sound as good as possible without doing much to the master. -P

[@Bananasmeow1]

hey they finally fixed the issue with that multiband compressor XD

[@TMM6900]

the microphone sounds very digital to me, is it possible to fix it?

[@FStoppers]

No because, well, the audio is digital. They do make a tube compressor but I'm not sure if that would make a digitally recorded audio track sound analog. -P

[@demones.official]

GREAT video! what's on his palm tho? lmao looks like stigmata

[@FStoppers]

I nearly broke my wrist in a scooter accident. -P

[@a-72-mestrysumitsubhash31]

insane

[@airtyme]

Erm as a sound engineer, multiband compressor is not needed for this application. A standard compressor and eq will do the job!

[@marvinbeatz6266]

He understand the basic... Bu i think he doesn't know about all the plugins

[@FStoppers]

Can you explain the process and why it is better? Surely it can’t be faster which is the main point of the multiband compressor. -P

[@marvinbeatz6266]

The way you do it is faster! But you can make presets... You can use a normal compressor to cut the picks and bring up the volume, EQ to cut the low end below 100k and boost the vocal range you like! Use a " de-esser" to cut the "sss" on the high end, and a " gate" to cut sound below the voice in the parts! 😊

[@orazoulay3192]

@@FStoppers So as a sound engineer I disagree a bit with the comment above :) As long as the other crossovers doesn't kick in it won't take any affect because the threshold is higher than the signal that gets in. Yeah, its not the ideal way of cutting the lows but its also an option. The only thing i would think if to use a Multi-band compressor is in term of CPU performance, which is not an issue these days. The alternate way would be: EQ (High-Pass filter or using a puffer when recording) - Compressor for the all track (some can be compressed by frequency range) and a De-Esser. And this brings me to the point that what you did is faster and gets the same results ;]

[@waynewalkerorg]

That's odd, I don't have that bug, never did. @ 3:07

[@FStoppers]

It only happens if your monitor is 4k

[@frodobaggins1301]

more tutorials plz

[@nicolasschneider942]

3:18 one of thousands of reasons why osX is superior to windows when it comes to in premiere or adobe applications in general.

[@nandakishort4162]

Your video starts at 1:15 . Thank you

[@djkamilo66]

That compressor is doing absolutely nothing, not a single peak is going above the threshold for it to start compressing, nao gain reduction is happening in any band at all. you need to lower those thresholds till they start compressing... the red "VU bar" besides the threshold fader shows how much compression is going on and none of them are modulating. All youre doing there is boosting the make-up gain. Please have a look at what im saying this is very important.

[@kaydawgy1999]

He's a photographer. Not an audio engineer

[@ThapeloPilusaThePoet]

soft once you've gone beyond the soft length accidentally. i'm tempted to do everytNice tutorialng in the sa step sequencer rather than

[@CarolineFarrow]

they fixed the window resizing bug

[@FStoppers]

When? -P

[@JamAshleyFilms]

For whatever it's worth, my Multiband compressor opens up in the full size. I don't need to drag to make it bigger. That's Adobe for ya.

[@pablofedericofotografo]

At least! an easy way to do it.

[@BillBynum]

I just watch all fstoppers vids now.

[@Noealz]

They put out good stuff :)

[@uddhavarts]

future

[@ARC_VR]

07:00 for my own reference lol

[@TMM6900]

wow, i finally don't need audacity for this anymore xD

[@icn8858]

For some folks, it might be too much. If you want something easy, try using Levelator, www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

[@mhc_isme]

Bug is fixed

[@fitandflo]

Just want to update and say you don't have to drag the multi-band compressor anymore in 2022. Welcome to the future haha

[@PremiumLeo]

nice tutorial, but switching the camera from the interface to you to the interface is a bit jarring and annoying. just focus on the interface, and make a mini-window of yourself in the corner. thank you.

[@the_giant01]

hey they fix it lol no more strachin the compressor window

[@marconeyt6190]

don't mean to be hater here but its funny and true XD .. dose tutorial for how to get better audio in premier ...dose not get good audio on he's own video