BETTER VOICEOVERS WITH BACKGROUND MUSIC (Adobe Premiere Pro, Background Music)

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

Wow, great video! I never even realized that you had to pay attention to frequency and always just lowered the music volume, :D. Thanks for sharing!

[@RealJamesArcher]

Yeah, it never occurred to me before either, but then when I found it out it made perfect sense!

[@AllThingsOverlanding]

@@RealJamesArcher That's great info. Thanks for sharing!

[@Jackknife-TV]

Man every time I watch videos like this I sit and think how do you have enough time to edit this thoroughly.........

[@achrisinthemidwest]

He took his time walking through the process and the video was only 5 minutes. Do it a couple times and it will take literally about 30 seconds. This applies to anything. It can take some time and work up front to understand how something works, but once it's implemented into your process it becomes natural to you and the little bit of extra time it adds to your process is completely worth it.

[@JXoaT]

As someone new to production, the opening of this video had me rolling. This had been my general experience until finding this vid! Much appreciated!

[@NeptuneDesign]

This video was made 4 years ago, I have made 200 videos in the past 4 years. Everytime I added background music it didn't work, until today! Thank you James!! I just thought I had a weird alien voice that didn't blend with human music...parametric EQ... GO FIGURE!

[@shortforchange]

saw a specialist talking about this idea on a video the other day, took a little while to find someone explaining this so thankyou

[@tpyntavyk5552]

My dude, thank you so much! A simple trick that such an impact on audio quality! You're very straight to the point, just got a new subscriber.

[@Jed_Herne]

Amazing, super helpful! Thanks James

[@vandermeer-cinematography2660]

Wow, this vastly improved my current project. Thanks a lot James!

[@Zakyyy14]

What a Legend! Thankyou so much! 🔥

[@oliverrojas3185]

That was great and interesting how well it works to notch out a frequency for a voice to sit within background music. .

[@willsanders2921]

GAME CHANGER DUDE! THANK YOU

[@RealJamesArcher]

🙌

[@arwqs]

I was trying to find something like this to make my voice better against background music. This is just perfect. Thank you for this Tutorial James :)

[@john1802]

Very helpful tutorial! But is there a way to automate this method to work only when voice track is playing?? So music track going back to full frequencies when no voice. I'm guessing you need to use Audition for it

[@grandma4885]

This is amazing. Feels like reallly good knowledge to know! Thanks

[@YYTTMedia]

Don't use Adobe Premiere, yet, but wow that makes so much of a difference.

[@ryanshuler2362]

This helped me out immensely! Thank you very much.

[@AndreasNolteConTaktArt]

I really need to leave a comment! :) When you explained and showed the process, my first thought was: I am using this already. Got that from Gerald. And funny enough, that you give him credit at the end of the video :) What I really want to point out is: I like your video more!!! Because: - I learned from you, that the the simple equalizer is just a different version of the normal equalizer and how to find the right hz number!! - I am sure, that Gerald also explained it in his video, but yours is shorter and more on point! So my verdict: I watched multiple videos from you now and I really, really like your short and compact version :) Since there are so many videos about video editing, its really relaxing not to be overwhelmed with informations :) :) :) Thanks a lot!

[@RealJamesArcher]

Andreas, I really appreciate you taking the time to leave your feedback, and I can't think of a better compliment than being compared favorably to Gerald! I don't speak German, but I'm going to check out your channel anyway. 😄 Thanks, and good luck!

[@AndreasNolteConTaktArt]

@@RealJamesArcher Yes, it is rarely, that I take the time for such a Comment. I think, I just resonate very will with your personality :) :) oh, and good luck. I don't have a tech channel, it is all about Personal development and social dancing, so without german there is almost nothing to understand visually :D (And still without english subtitles :P)

[@thecapital2693]

Thank you James. That was really helpful in my videos.

[@RealLifesJourneyBecomingPinoy]

awesome, thank you

[@drumrit]

That's so simple and genius. Damn

[@SnackPatrol]

Dude you saved my ass. I know this is 4 years later but I hope you see this- I have a video on my channel with BG audio from about 4 generations of video games- getting the 8-bit in the background to sound good with the Sega CD stuff, vs. PC vs. SNES, then you have the game audio itself- of all the tips for dealing with audio this is the only one to actually fix it. Thank you!

[@RealJamesArcher]

Glad it helped, man!

[@LaithWallace]

GReat video I've just done this on my video and it works

[@dejiodunlami7459]

Thanks. To the point and easy to follow

[@howardsend6589]

Great tutorial. To my ears, the music was still a tad too loud. Maybe drop to -22?

[@aluckyjar]

Oh shit, this actually worked. Thanks for the tutorial bro!!

[@orhansumen]

finally a video that gets to the point right away!

[@Denta_Adante]

sorry i'm newbie in sound, i can't get it. how you say 1500? where is the number come from? can you explain more...

[@SuperAdeline]

Thank you so much for sharing knowledge!!!

[@Wayoutwithus]

How come you have glasses on and still not so much reflection of the lights..Nice!

[@constantine8723]

GAME CHANGER OSSS Thank you!

[@zachgoll]

Nailed this one. Exactly what I needed help with!

[@OscarNtege]

Thank you for this Video brother. Jah Bless

[@Surfiler]

Thank you so much Toby Damon 😁

[@bethleehem]

hey, you win....... LOVED the intro!

[@Callum_Ramsey]

Epic! Thanks for taking the time to create this tutorial James. Just used it on some client work! - Callum

[@ElRingtagono]

Bro thank you, thank you, thank you

[@Nicontrast]

My latest video, the first one I've done with music behind my voice, suffered terribly from this problem - I will be using this technique for sure in the next one. Thank you for such a clear procedure and good explanation!

[@RealJamesArcher]

Glad it helped!

[@MysteriousOldWorld]

Excellent video - straight to the point - thank you so much

[@5ashll303]

I don't understand the equaliser part, what exactly am i looking for?

[@gabebikes]

Thanks for this vid!

[@ElRingtagono]

Thank you so much

[@OMARZAKIALIRAQEY]

thx bro

[@adhimenon9382]

Thanks Dear James ❤

[@thegamejournalist24]

not working please tell another method for doing in this adobe premire pro 2023 version

[@HotShotStarrr]

Great

[@BjornCreemers]

Great tip, thanks !!!

[@AlıdaGUZe]

that s a good video

[@ebenezerjohnson9873]

TOP NOTCH 😊

[@ElRingtagono]

Thanks dude

[@jeremiahwaters9089]

Wow! this was a super helpful tutorial and you explained it very clearly. Thanks for sharing. I just added this to my video. Greatly appreciated!

[@bz7661]

So this is the complicated way of doing it?

[@hevaldelal9890]

How to do this in Vegas Pro?

[@martonprech7987]

much easier :)

[@metacanny8668]

faaaaantastic worked!!!!=

[@mfgonz]

the intro really sent me lmao

[@vloguy]

Thanks alot

[@nashaec3233]

This is great for me to know. I am getting into voice over work and I'm trying to navigate. Anyone in the comments know any good downloads for a Mac Air. Let me know. Have the best day everyone.

[@amymegr]

there's gotta be an easier way. B/c how did you know then number to take out?

[@RealJamesArcher]

Normal ranges for human voice plus experimentation 😅

[@dominickmorales130]

Thank You

[@SharinganDeeOfficial]

@0:46 Is HILARIOUSSS

[@arichlife5915]

Thanks!

[@gabyabroad]

How can you do this on only one part of a clip ? Thank you

[@letsthink7332]

Dude tganks

[@marianacamillo147]

thank you!

[@FASTandFOOD-ny8zz]

This was so helpfull😢

[@ayobamimac]

Thank You 😍

[@FASTandFOOD-ny8zz]

That imtro did hook me in the video

[@Ahmedsamirhany]

Good luck bro with your videos

[@AYEXGUY]

loosing the quality of the music when doing this so, is their a way to fix it?

[@RealJamesArcher]

That's intentional. You have to choose what you want your audience to focus on. If you want them to focus on high quality music, they're not going to pay much attention to the speaker anyway, so there's not a great way to do both as far as I know.

[@AYEXGUY]

@@RealJamesArcher Appreciate your work, sir🙌 Keep teaching

[@BMAWK]

thank you s o much

[@anukrishnamadhu4654]

thank you broii.

[@yenespace]

RIP for people watching with earbuds! Awesome video tho!

[@colleenquiton]

No one has ever made a video about how to make the voice of the speaker louder than the background music. NOTE: the background music and the voice of the speaker is in one audio file. So thevideo was recorded inside a ballroom dance floor. So the music there is so loud. I can't hear the vlogger. I need to make her voice louder. HELP PLEASE! They are not separated. So I would really love if someone can help me with reducing the BG music and making the speaker voice louder.

[@RealJamesArcher]

Unfortunately, that's a nearly impossible situation. 😬 your best bet is probably an AI-type system that does voice isolation. DaVinci Resolve has a tool like this, for example. However, because the frequencies of the voice and music overlap and mash together, It's almost impossible to separate them afterward. You might be able to play with the frequencies a bit to bring down some of the music, but I'm not optimistic that it'll give you what you want. Your best might might just be to subtitle that part or ask the vlogger to rerecord the voice track and ADR it in. There aren't many great answers. Sorry!

[@martonprech7987]

@@RealJamesArcher Resolve 19 :)

[@just_logi]

thank u

[@GuillermoCatalano]

very interesting

[@azef]

goat

[@captainbrianwilkinson7723]

still think the background is still to high, a real bad level between the two, Im a radio DJ, & simply edit the background track & my voice track in audition & you can add a little more depth to your own voice, basically the same if i am live in the studio fading music up & down, you leave the fader for yoru voice at the perfect point, & interject fading up the music when you pause slightly, you need music thats not too dramatic more of a level no real peaks, that you speak over, you need to project yor voice more, or dont use backgroubd music. ive never had to do more than pick the right background music & edit the levels & dont talk if there is a peak in a backing track, you need rises & fall in your voice with a second or two break, with the music coming through, to give some interest in your commentary, listen to any good radio presenter. Basically it all needs to flow & add interest to yoru listeners with as i say with light & shade, like a good song, but interesting video will be following :-)

[@soosyr1996]

How to do this on garageband?

[@srikanthm7065]

useful....

[@tom8008135]

It looks like it's all bouncing to me. I don't understand :( 2:30

[@SaadonAksah]

omg! this is so advance! 🤪

[@niemi5858]

Why does dialogue require a musical accompaniment in the first place?

[@Thefariashoots]

Some intro 😁

[@AbdullahJahangirBhatti]

2:32 how did you know it's at 1500?

[@Rhonda_BGamin]

What if the music is in the same track as the voice?

[@RealJamesArcher]

Then, unfortunately, you're going to have a bad time. 😬 once it's been mixed down together, this technique doesn't work anymore. You might be able to help it by bringing down some frequencies, but there's a lot of overlap between voice and music so it's going to be rough either way.

[@monumento.f.501]

The best idea would be to remove the c****y stock music from the platform.

[@pnr2736]

Uuyioo

[@storiesbybrad]

"I'm James Archer, and I talk about video stuff." Literally made me laugh out loud spewing bits of my crescent roll all over my keyboard... Instant thumbs down.

[@RealJamesArcher]

😭

[@Anvilshock]

It should be noted that this is a particularly extreme and unrealistic example that serves more to demonstrates the "problem" and the "solution" than anything. The result is still awful and nauseating to listen to. In practice it should never come to such a constellation of dissimilars where you need to carve a gaping hole into a well-arranged, well-balanced piece of music with a bright and poppy mood just to make some subdued voice-over audible in the first place. If you find yourself at such a crowbar marriage, perhaps you should rather think about finding matching pieces so that musical mood and vocal tone *complement, not compete* with, each other.

[@YouNikSan]

God, men, just turn your music down!!