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