Instructor: Here's a tutorial on how to use
the parametric equaliser to improve your audio
in Adobe Premiere Pro.
The old EQ filter was ditched in the latest update
of CC 2017.
So, now we can use the parametric equaliser
to improve our audio.
So, let's just drop it onto this clip,
and you can see it appears in our audio effects bin.
So, this is just a clip that I shot
in my house, with my iPhone,
bad audio quality, no noise reduction,
and this is actually a clip
for my video production boot camp.
Let's listen through it a little bit.
-: When we were filming in this room, in my kitchen,
and I really noticed it...
Instructor: So, it's quiet, so,
there's not much background noise,
but my vocal, the sound of my voice isn't great.
So, let's click edit parametric equaliser,
and you get this same sort of graph that you had
with the EQ Effect.
You have your frequencies going left to right,
and then up and down you have your master gain,
or the decibel level of the audio.
So, if we click and drag up or down any of these points,
then what we get is actually an increase or decrease
of those frequencies.
So, let's just play through and show you, so...
Voice in video: When I started editing the videos
is that there was a decent amount of echo...
-: So, if I bring down the low frequencies
you only hear more of the high frequencies.
If I bring this up...
-: ...go in the room,
and it's mostly...
Instructor: You get all that low frequencies, okay?
So, we can play around with these
to change the sound of our voice
and make it sound better
and it's going to be different for every person
because our voices have different frequencies.
Some of our voices are high, some are low,
and we can add actually a cut, a high cut or low cut,
to this effect as well,
which will completely get rid of any sounds
below or above certain frequencies,
and that's usually how I start,
and that's with this button right here.
This is a low cut filter,
so what it's doing is it's cutting all sounds
under 40 hertz.
I typically set it at around 80
because my voice doesn't have many frequencies
under that.
So, now if we play through it.
Voice in Video: ...we were filming at my table...
Instructor: Sounds a little bit better,
and we can turn it on and off
with this bypass button over here.
Voice in Video: ...the hard surface,
all the walls, I don't really have...
Instructor: Very subtle.
So, now, let's do the same thing with the high cut.
So, we're going to cut this right here,
and set it at 6500.
voice in Video: ...the walls right now,
there's windows and then behind me of course...
Instructor: Okay, so now I'm going to play around
with the different frequencies,
and just watch what I'm doing and then listen.
Voice in video: ...in the kitchen
there's the hard surfaces of the countertops,
the refrigerator, and our floors are all hard too.
We don't have carpet,
and we don't really have any rugs in here as well.
So, I think I'm going to try...
Instructor: I definitely don't want to increase
these higher frequencies.
It doesn't sound good.
-: ...my kitchen and I really noticed it
when I started editing the videos
is that there was a decent amount of echo in...
Instructor: One thing we can do also
is change the width of these points.
So, if we don't want an effect so much
we can increase this range right here, the q width.
So, now that only is picking specific frequencies
rather than a bigger range.
-: ...in the room and it's mostly
because it's a lot of hard surfaces.
We were filming at my table,
which is a hard surface, all the walls.
I don't really have anything on the walls right now.
There's windows and then behind me,
of course, in the kitchen,
there's the hard surfaces of the countertops,
the refrigerator and our floors are all hard too.
We don't have carpet
and we don't really have any rugs in here as well.
So, I think I'm going to try testing out
just placing a blanket on top of the table to see...
Instructor: Okay, so you heard
that when I brought this down
it started to sound a little wonky too,
so when I'm bringing down the low frequencies on my voice
it sounds weird
and then when I'm bringing up the higher frequencies
it sounds weird.
So, something like this kind of
helps make me sound a little bit fuller.
So, bringing up the lows, not to sound basey,
but just a little bit more warmth, I would say,
in those low frequencies.
-: ...because it's a lot of hard surfaces.
We were filming at my table, Instructor: Bypassed...
-: ...which is a hard service,
with walls. Instructor: ...with effect.
I don't really have anything on the walls right...
Instructor: So, that's how you use
the parametric equaliser to improve your sound.
Basically you have these points.
You can increase or decrease those frequencies.
You can turn on the low cut or the high cut filters
to just get rid of any of those frequencies
under this part right here.
If you don't want it to cut completely,
you can click this button and it more gently decreases,
but it's not a hard cut
and sometimes that's better for your voice,
and then increasing or decreasing the width of these points
to include more or less frequencies.
So, in the next lesson,
I'm going to show you how to use this effect
to actually get rid of echo,
which is another thing you can do with this effect,
but now you know how to use the parametric equaliser.
If you have any questions please let me know.