How To Remove Plosives In Your Audio With Adobe Audition

Here's an easy way to remove the plosives in your audio. Just use Adobe Audition and the FFT filter.
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[@antpruitt]

Unfortunately my background music was a little too high at times and I didn't catch it. Fortunately, you can still get the gist of the tutorial and try for yourself. Thank you for watching.

[@voodoomotion5855]

I got the gist of it the moment I saw the waveform change! Great tutorial, will help immensely, thanks so much for sharing!

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching 🤜🏾

[@voodoomotion5855]

Contact me anytime if you need any motion graphics advice! 😊

[@yeahwellwhatever3659]

If only there were a way to edit this video's audio in such a manner that would decrease the volume of it's included techno. ;-) Thanks for the vid!

[@1720-l8e]

I didn't even notice it until you just said so.

[@Quarker]

Great tutorial, my recommendation would be to remove the background music especially when you're inside Audition, it does interfere with being able to hear the difference.

[@antpruitt]

Good call. THANKS for watching and the great feedback. Hope you're doing well 🤜🏽

[@nickc.5886]

@@antpruitt Do you think you will remove it?

[@antpruitt]

Sorry. I won't be re-uploading this video with an edit

[@PerShawn]

yess exactly what i was going to say the music is counteractive

[@antpruitt]

My bad on this. THX, tho!

[@LearnTrueHealth]

Excellent video! I've edited over 500 interviews with Audition and Plosives has been so hard to clean up till I found your video so thank you for sharing this! It's really helped!

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching and sharing. Glad it helped 🤜🏾

[@sethstenzel]

The BG music was a bit strong, but the tutorial was what I needed, and saved me rerecord time. Thanks!

[@antpruitt]

Yeah my bad. THX for watching

[@1720-l8e]

Thank you this is the first video to show me how to do it properly and believe I have watched tons of them but this is the best one. Thank you.

[@antpruitt]

THANKS. Glad my video helped. Thanks for watching my video

[@madisenstubbs]

easy fix, other videos made it more complicated. thank you! a life saver for a current project I'm working on.

[@antpruitt]

This comment really means a lot. So glad it helped someone. Good luck on your project, Madisen. THANKS for watching and sharing my vid 🤜🏾

[@davidstone4704]

Nice, short, to the point video. None of the rambling on that other tutorials give. To top it off, your tip worked. Now I just need a better filter for my extremely old and poppy Kam mic so I never have this problem again!

[@antpruitt]

Hey THANKS for saying that. I appreciate you watching my video and sharing it with others. Glad my tip worked for ya 🤜🏾

[@donshotfirst]

A complete game changer. THANK YOU!

[@antpruitt]

Thank you for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

Works really good! Thanks

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. THANKS for watching 🤜🏾

[@archaicbro]

YOU SAVED MY LIFE THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@antpruitt]

THANK YOU for watching and sharing my video. Be well

[@davidcasler8913]

what a great tip! Never heard of FFT now it's saving my audio recording! Thanks!

[@antpruitt]

Glad it helped. Thank you for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

[@davidcasler8913]

@@antpruitt Your awesome video leaves me wondering one thing. What is the danger in applying the FFT mic rumble to an ENTIRE voiceover track instead of seeking out the plosive segments. Does it lessen the parts that don't necessarily need it?

[@antpruitt]

No this is a selective adjustment. Otherwise, you can use the AI tools built into Adobe's "essential sound" tools.

[@homodhamad]

it works ,, great tip thank you

[@antpruitt]

Glad it helped you. THANKS for watching and sharing my video 🤜🏾

[@ZenGeekDad]

TLDW: time-select plosive (T on keyboard for time-select tool), Effects > Filter and EQ > FFT Filter > Preset = "kill the mic rumble". However, this assumes your plosive registered on your mic in the sub-100 Hz region ... not a reliable assumption.

[@antpruitt]

Thanks, ZenGeekDad🤜🏾

[@s.m.4198]

Is this why it didn't work for me? Everyone else says it worked. It barely did anything for me at all.

[@ZenGeekDad]

@@s.m.4198 Absolutely. If you toggle your main audio timeline away from the default amplitude (volume) plot, and to a frequency plot (to do this, double-click on the little group of tiny white dots on the middle of the border of this panel, at the bottom), ... then zoom in on the frequency range from zero to about 500 or so (mouse right-click + drag to select the frequency range you want to zoom to), ... you will see which frequencies were the loudest (the color map is like a fire's heat: brighter is louder). If your plosive (as miscaptured as a bomb sound by the mic) went significantly above 100 Hz, then you need to drag the keyframe on the Effect to your right, into slightly higher frequencies. It's a trade-off though, because the vocal range , especially for men, dips down towards 100 Hz, so the de-plosived audio sounds more tin-y the higher you set the keyframe cutoff.

[@amouzande9102]

Very Help Full ThanQ for Your teaching

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. THANKS for watching my video 🤜🏾

[@Chris-ke5ju]

stumbled across your video, desperately looking for getting rid of the rumbling sound. It worked! Thank you, much appreciated!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching. Glad it helped 🤜🏾

[@JenniferGonsoulin]

This was sooo helpful, thank you!

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching and sharing with others 🙂. Glad it helped

[@KP-qk7jh]

thank you so much for this video!!

[@antpruitt]

Ah THANK YOU for watching ☺️

[@fixins]

Nice tutorial. Video editing software is bad at audio mixing and this gave me what I needed to fix a bunch of poppy Ps. Thanks!

[@antpruitt]

Glad it helped. THANKS for watching, sir 🤜🏾

[@MattBorchert]

Excellent video! Thank you Ant. :)

[@antpruitt]

Thanks for watching and sharing. Hope it helps folks out 🤜🏾

[@danjaworsky]

Thanks for the tip - helped me out a lot today.

[@antpruitt]

Thank YOU for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

[@kmkm-dp9wc]

Wow, this is incredibly easier than using the lasso tool to highlight the plosive on the spectral display. Thank you, I cant believe i was doing it the other much harder way!

[@antpruitt]

So many ways to do jobs. That's the fun part about creative art, right? Lol! THANKS for watching and sharing my video 🤜🏾

[@DJBRIANRIKHOTSO]

Thanks Ant...was helpful...

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. THANKS for watching, Brian

[@Michaelcohnmedia]

Dude. Thank you so much for this.

[@antpruitt]

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[@sagaQX]

I just subscribed AND turned on ALL notifications! Thanks Ant MAn!

[@antpruitt]

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[@mandigormas3393]

Thank you for posting!

[@antpruitt]

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[@CoreyBradley96]

This worked a treat! thank you!

[@antpruitt]

Thanks for watching. Glad it helped ya 🤜🏾

[@samchivers6271]

LIFESAVER. Thank you!

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching and spreading the word. Cheers

[@Dataforth]

Thanks Ant! That was a great tutorial! Like magic, the plosives are fixed!

[@antpruitt]

Sweet. THANKS for watching. Glad this helped ya 🤜🏾

[@Hamentsios10]

Cool thanks!

[@ion-shivs]

I can't believe I've never looked this up before and that it's so easy to fix. I've always just re-recorded those damned plosives... What a time saver!

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching 🤜🏾

[@rhondafoster5933]

Wow!!! Awesome it works perfectly, thank you.🦋

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. THANKS for watching and telling others

[@rahmanshowit3932]

Thanks its helpful. hello from Ghana

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching 🤜🏾

[@SuperShowJonesy]

You sir, are a legend!

[@antpruitt]

Hahahahaha! Now THAT'S funny. THANK YOU for watching and sharing my video. Hope it helped

[@PeterDudek1]

Dude. THANK YOU!

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. I hope it helped ya. 🤜🏾 THANK YOU for watching

[@alan112223]

Thank you Ant!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching

[@duffyror]

This is great, Ant. Thank you. You saved me a ton of time and stress.

[@antpruitt]

I'm glad this helped you. THANKS for watching and sharing with others. Hope your next project is a success

[@kristlsmithtyler]

I usually hate how-tos on You tube bc they have long intros and it seems like they are trying to make money by making you watch long drawn out intro sequences. thanks for being an exception and creating exceptional content. I have subscribed.

[@antpruitt]

Ah THANK YOU for that kind remark. I hope this video has helped ya. THANKS for watching and sharing my video. Thanks for SUBSCRIBING, too 🤜🏾

[@CanalSoliloquio]

Great, thanks a lot. Grretings from Brazil.

[@antpruitt]

Thank you for watching

[@Shawka77]

You're awesome dude. Keep it up!

[@antpruitt]

Thank you very much, Taki 🤜🏾

[@willytylee]

Thank you!!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. THANKS for watching

[@MrMusicmanmark]

Thank you so much, helped me a ton!

[@antpruitt]

THX for watching 🤜🏾

[@WoM]

I noticed how incredibly helpful applying this is to an entire recording. When would you recommend applying it? For example I usually apply Multiband Broadcast then hard limiter etc.

[@antpruitt]

I'd do this first. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾

[@Wuirox]

brooo this video is so good! Thank yoy so much God bless you!

[@antpruitt]

Hey thank you for watching and your comment 🤜🏾

[@PDFA]

OMG! LOVE YOU!!!! Thank you much!

[@antpruitt]

Lol! You're welcome. THANKS for watching and sharing

[@ranlevy-yamamori6125]

the background music is really disturbing and distracting to hear what you want to show.. .

[@antpruitt]

Sorry about that

[@graysoncooke9607]

I agree - who would put background music on a sound tutorial??!! This decision makes no sense to me.

[@antpruitt]

Thank you, Grayson

[@pattipooh]

@@antpruitt lmao he was a bit harsh but good video!!

[@antpruitt]

@@pattipooh not gonna worry about it. Glad they watched it and left feedback. THANK YOU for watching, Jodye. All the best to ya 🤜🏾

[@JayJayHorray]

Thanks for the tutorial! easy to follow and straight to the point!

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. THANKS for watching and sharing my video 🤜🏾. Hope it helped

[@HistoryHeroes]

Great job

[@ewp7615]

thanks, you're a life saver. I had no idea this was a thing

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure 🤜🏽. Glad I could help. THANKS for watching and sharing with others!

[@fattyballaty3424]

Worked very well for me! Thank you for posting this helpful tip.

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

[@seanwinningham6653]

Awesome, thank you!

[@antpruitt]

Thank you for watching and sharing. Hope it helped 🤜🏾

[@jomac_ph]

Thanks mang! This is just what I need

[@antpruitt]

Glad it helped. Thanks for watching my vid 🤜🏾

[@phamburger]

It's like magic. Great tip, Ant!

[@antpruitt]

THANKS, lady. Such a quick fix. Thank you for watching 🤜🏾

[@what.if.productions]

This works great!! Thank you so much for the tutorial

[@antpruitt]

Glad it helped. THANKS for watching my video 🤜🏾

[@what.if.productions]

@@antpruitt 🤛 Thank YOU

[@seastachura5535]

worked perfectly. thanks. Agree with Quarker.

[@antpruitt]

Glad it worked for you. THANKS for watching 🤜🏾 😊

[@s.m.4198]

At first I thought this wasn't working, I made some adjustments and it works.

[@antpruitt]

Excellent 🤜🏾

[@slecommentary1105]

Fantastic tutorial. Just to reinforce what others have already says though, the music in the background is counter productive when working with audio.

[@antpruitt]

Thx

[@justmaxeth]

thanks!

[@antpruitt]

Thank you for watching and spreading the word 🤜🏾

[@janetlstead]

THANK YOU!

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching and thank you for sharing the video, Janet

[@theceruleandolphin2829]

Great advice, gratefully received.

[@antpruitt]

Thank you. Thanks for watching. Hope it helped you 🤜🏾

[@darrenflashmedia3621]

Thankyou sir. Simple, to the point and exactly the fix I needed. Great stuff - keep it up...

[@antpruitt]

THX. I appreciate your support 🤜🏾

[@BestAcupunctureLLC]

Thanks for the help!!!!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

[@just2swift]

very helpful, thanks alot

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching. Glad my video helped you 🤜🏾

[@SnackiesVoices]

Yessss!! Thank you so much. That was exactly what I was looking for! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. THANKS for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

[@TobiasBarnes]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching and sharing my vid 🤜🏾

[@georgealanruth5179]

Love the tip! Can't wait to try it out on my next time in front of the mic.

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching. It works for most plosives. Good luck

[@Chewbacca2000]

Thanks man!!

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure. THANKS for watching and sharing my video

[@lavoiejr]

Perfect my friend!! YOU resolved my problem thank youuuuuu!

[@antpruitt]

My pleasure 😊 THANKS for watching my video and sharing 🤜🏾

[@nektapovesti]

Helpful indeed! Thank you so much!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Thank you for watching and sharing my video 🤜🏾

[@4quartets]

Great tutorial, super clear, the documentary and I thank you!

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching. Glad it helped. Best if luck to you on your project

[@GaryHegenbart]

This is great, and so easy. I could have used this last week, at least I know for next time.

[@antpruitt]

I'm glad it was helpful for you, Gary. THANKS for watching. Be sure to check out my video for better audio in your podcasting, OBS or Zoom. 🤜🏾 Thanks for sharing my vid on Twitter, too.

[@bayouradio]

This is just what I needed today. Thank you!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Glad it could help. THANKS for watching 🤜🏾

[@thea.c.unitfamily9529]

Just what I was looking for, thank you.

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Hope it helps you. Thanks for watching and sharing my vid 🤜🏾

[@kharisjohnson]

Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching🤜🏾

[@franticfactory]

This was an incredible help, thank you so much! I'm newer to the audio editing game with Audition, and I was about to pull my hair out over all these plosives (and rerecording was not an option).

[@antpruitt]

Glad it helped. THANKS for watching and sharing. Good luck with your future projects 🤜🏾

[@seansiegler]

Wow. I have been doing this all wrong! My god this works great. Thanks so much. I was just able to clean up 2 auditions that I was afraid I would have to scrap because of a few airy plosive P's!

[@antpruitt]

That's GREAT. Glad this worked for you. Good luck with the audition. THANKS for watching and sharing my video 🤜🏾

[@josemiguelvillouta]

Thanks master!

[@antpruitt]

Lol! I'm no master. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾

[@josemiguelvillouta]

@@antpruitt There is a well-deserved VIP place in heaven for guys who upload tutorials.

[@mattbruh3583]

Thanks!

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾

[@mikhaelthobie]

thank you

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching

[@neilseiffer]

Great video. Do you have a methodology to remove (SH) with De Esher filter in Audition? Words like: shortly, Investigation (tion), organization (tion)?

[@antpruitt]

THANKS for watching. Unfortunately, I don't have a de-esser video (yet)

[@neilseiffer]

@@antpruittOkay....by the way, there is a difference between De-esser and De-esher filter.

[@NatalieRosellaBoonzaier]

Thank you! This helped! xx

[@antpruitt]

You're welcome. Glad it helped you. THANKS for watching and sharing my video

[@KT_Pierce]

Is there any way to do this for the entire narration, all at once? Is there a setting that could take down all plosives with one swoop? Similar to de-esser, etc.?

[@antpruitt]

No. This particular technique is for spot checking. You can also try some ai tools for the full file. Adobe podcasts ai tool is nice.

[@mattskoll]

Not sure if anyone is checking this anymore...but I'm using Audition v24.0 and when I select the FFT filter, it no longer has the option to "APPLY". Have I missed something? Other than Adobe messing with things, GREAT tut!

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching. I've not had to use this tip in a while. Video is several versions old, so maybe Adobe changed some of the interface

[@littlerainyone]

When I apply the "remove mic rumble" FFT to a plosive, it doesn't change it much, not near as much as it changed in your video illustration. What could be causing that?

[@antpruitt]

Not sure. Sounds like it's really clipped. Yikes. Thx for watching 🤜🏾

[@MosKou2KH1]

Hello, what if it doesn't work ? I tried and that just doesn't seem to work out...

[@antpruitt]

Not sure. May have to break it down with amplitude adjustments and low cut filters. Tough one.

[@samehsayed8932]

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[@antpruitt]

Hilarious 😆 THANKS for watching and sharing 🤜🏾

[@singyourstory_cover]

Thanks for sharing

[@antpruitt]

Thx for watching

[@ajana2424]

Its great, but I dont hear your audio example within the program, the music is too loud..

[@antpruitt]

Sorry about that. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾. Hope it helps you with your audio

[@ajana2424]

@@antpruitt yes, it totally saved me. Thanks a lot!

[@DanAlexu13]

worked!

[@antpruitt]

Sweet. Glad it worked for you. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾

[@yeabro9024]

Man i want to know how can i remove bass.i mean low parts or drums idk..i want to remove bass and drums (if it possible)

[@antpruitt]

Lots of tedious EQ is my thought

[@markokaen853]

hey man! what do u think, is there a workproof way to "macro" same action in once whole over the 10 hour recording - lets say noise capturing the rumble in waveform + applying the Kill rumble effect.

[@antpruitt]

I doubt it. Unless you can build a macro that's looking for a specific frequency that's hit with a certain wavelength. ((shrugs)) THANKS for watching.

[@ronaldoooooooooo000]

hey man, thanks so much, could i highlight the whole song and do this? or is this a shortcut you would not advice trying?

[@antpruitt]

Nah. This is for spot checking. Thanks for watching

[@ronaldoooooooooo000]

@@antpruitt thanks so much Ant :D

[@TheVideoProfiles]

Can it ripple through timeline to remove all at once?

[@antpruitt]

Not this technique. This is manual for spot checking. Thank you for watching

[@sjeunson1]

gotta agree with all the posts about backround music. Your doing an audio tutorial and the music is extraneous and not needed. Thanks for your tips though.

[@antpruitt]

Thank you, Sean. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾

[@gencemosia9355]

What if I just select the entire audio clip instead of individual sections of plosives? Is it recommended or not? And why?

[@antpruitt]

Unfortunately this is for spot cleanup. Plosives shouldn't be in the whole file if it was being monitored during recording. There may be an AI tool to check the whole file. Thank you for watching.

[@gencemosia9355]

@Ant Pruitt, understood. Thank you very much.

[@DukeInteractiveMedia]

from Jeff...Thanks for this but very ESSY I am finding this is becoming a too common thing for video these days and it shouldn't really be that way I am having to turn my highs almost right down to be proper for me.

[@TechMyLifeVideo]

I can't understand why you would have music in the background of a video where people are trying to hear the audio of your examples. At least for me, I can't hear your example at all.

[@antpruitt]

Yes I screwed up that part. It's been noted by several others commenting. My mistake. Thank you for watching.

[@robertbourgeois3065]

Great video Ant. Quick question though - how would you recommend automating the removal of plosives from the entire length of an audio track? While the technique you demonstrated works great for the stray plosive, I feel it would take forever to trim them out from a considerably longer track and I am sure there is an easy way to save time and effort.

[@antpruitt]

Good question. I'm not sure, but I do know that Adobe is working on an AI to batch process multiple selections in clips. Thanks for watching 🤜🏾

[@slarkstyle1901]

Is there a way to do this in premiere?

[@antpruitt]

There's an FFT filter effect in premiere you can apply to the clip. Thanks for watching and sharing my video 🤜🏾

[@pauloferreira1235]

Muito bom. Obrigado!!

[@AttonTheLightbringer]

Thanks a lot! But next time... maybe don't use background music when showing off audio? You could barely even here the plosive nor how it sounded after applying the filter since it got overlapped by the music. I don't mind background music at all, neither did I dislike the track, but in this case it kinda was in the way.

[@antpruitt]

I totally agree with ya. THANKS.