How to Remove Background Noise in Premiere Pro – 2022

Remove Background Noise in Premiere Pro

Today, I want to show you the easiest and fastest way to remove background noise in Premiere Pro. Besides just background noise, you can also have reverb, hum, and rumble in your audio clip. If you haven’t yet subscribed, hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don’t miss any of my tutorials. So we’re going to start off in the Essential Sound panel.

Starting in the Essential Sound Panel

If you don’t see the Essential Sound Panel. You can come up to the window and click right here where it says Essential Sound or you can come up here to the top and click on this icon. And this will show you all the workspaces and you can click on audio. Essential sound is right here in. First, I’m going to let you hear how this audio sounds.

I’m using the onboard microphone on my camera. Just so you can see, it’s possible to get good audio from a lower-quality microphone. So here goes. This is an audio test with the onboard microphone.

Testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on.

And this room has a lot of echoes. First of all, I’m going to select my audio track and come up here to where it says Dialog. I’m going to tag this as a dialog and it might be easier to work on your clip if you just choose an area and loop through it.

The onboard microphone. Testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on.

I’m going to set an endpoint right here on the clip, “I”. I’ll set an out point and hit “O” and now up here right under the program monitor. You should see an icon for loop playback. And if you don’t click on this plus right here, the button editor, and right here is the loop playback. Drag that down to the bottom right here and say, okay, and click on that. Now you can press the spacebar and it should loop through your in and out points.

Testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Now, over here in your Essential Sound panel, just say repair. Click on that. You should see almost everything you need to reduce noise in your audio. That’s what makes your essential sound panel so good. It has most of the tools you need to clean up your audio. I’m going to start off by adjusting the reduced noise and clicking on that and adjusting it and listening to the audio.

Keep in mind, though, that as you make these adjustments, it could affect the actual audio quality of the voice. So we have to be careful, to find a balance.

Testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing one, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing one, two.

So next I’m going to try reverb. There’s a lot of reverb in this room, so let’s try that on.

Testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing, one, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing. One, two, three, four. Air conditioning.

So now you had the option of maybe trying to reduce rumble or d hum and see how that affects the audio or if it makes a little bit better. So it’s just a process to go through to see if you can reduce the most noise but still maintain as much of the audio quality.

Testing one, two, three, four. Air conditioning is on testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Did home testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing. One, two, three, four. Air conditioning.

So reduced rumble may have helped a little bit, but definitely not DHum. So now let’s try and bring back the voice. See if we can get that quality a little bit better. Because we know from all the just we’ve made so far that the quality of the voice is gone down a little bit. So let’s try EQ. There’s a preset that we can try.

You try all these, but I think Podcast Voice guess voice would sound good. Let’s see how that sounds.

Design, testing. One, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on. Testing. One, two, three, four. This is on. Testing. One, two, three, four air conditioning on. Testing. One, two, three.

And one more thing we can do is we can click on enhance speech and we’ll click on a low tone. So if you have a clip that is gotten too many highs coming in because of all the adjustments you’ve made, you can click on enhance speech and low tone.

Before air conditioning is on. Testing one, two, three, four. The air conditioning is on.

And so that helped. We have some of our low tones coming back in. One thing about using the Essential Sound panel is when you make adjustments like this, it applies to a clip, not the whole track. So in this case, here I have just one clip, but if you had multiple clips on the track, you would have to do something like this first.

How to Save and Apply Settings as a Preset

You need to save your settings as a preset. So we’ll come up here to the top and click here and we’ll call this demo preset and say, Okay. So now in this first clip, I have the demo preset selected and you can see up here in the effects controls, here are all my effects, DeNoise, reverb. But if I click over to this other clip, nothing is applied.

So that’s what I mean. If you had multiple clips and you made all your adjustments in the essential Sound panel, it’s only going to apply to that clip, not to the other clips on the timeline. So since we save it as a preset, just select that clip. Come up here to your preset in the Essential Sound panel, here’s the demo preset.

Now if you look at the effects controls, here are my reverb and DeNoise. I can do that to my next clip here. Same thing. Select my demo preset. It is applied there too. And if you need to change any of these settings on an individual clip like, say, reverb, you can come up here in the effects control panel, you can click on edit and here you have a chance.

You can change the amount and it’s going to change the reverb just on that clip. You can go back to each of the clips and go to the effects control and click on Edit and bring up a dialog like this to change values. So let’s play it all back. This is how it all sounds. This is an audio test with the onboard microphone.

This is an audio test with the onboard microphone.

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