hey everybody market with lewis here from cinemasound.com today we're going to be using
adobe premiere pro to show us how to do and where the good sound button is you know the good sound
button where you just have to hit a single button or move a couple of dials and everything sounds
great that is available for us in adobe premiere pro in the form of the multi-band compressor
plug-in let me show you how all right so we're here in premiere pro where we have a little clip
of just dialogue from a lavalier it's a little chunky it's got a little noise from the room
and it's kind of honky as lavaliers many times are let's take a listen to what this sounds like
it's insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer
was insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer so you kind of
get i mean it sounds fine it's well recorded it's just in a kind of a noisy room so the first thing
that we need to do is instantiate get rid of the stuff that we don't want and that's as easy as
pulling up a high pass filter because stuff that is below 90 hertz generally speaking even in the
male voice we might cheat a little bit and make it 85 is just not human and we don't need it rumbling
down there the next thing that we do is we want to deal with this noise and we just instantiate
denoise double click and this will come up take a look at what we're seeing here there
was insubordination that give but you're taking unnecessary risks now that's the actual sound
itself as we bring up the amount of reduction you'll see a red bunch of uh indicators come in
that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt
in the destroyer was insubordination and that's pretty good this is with a full
uh full broadband frequency attenuation if we just do the low frequencies listen to the difference
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
that give but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
and really i think most of the noise is down there in that low rumble the air conditioner
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks and without that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in this destroyer was insubordination and there's
a little bit of chirpiness in there but i think it's okay obviously we can reduce it if we need to
then from there the only other plugin i would want to use and a lot of people do a lot of
other things is the multiband compressor we double click and this is really like having four
compressors in one that are bound to a specific kind of frequency so here we are we're going to
be moving these little bars around which tell each one of those compressors the blue orange
green and purple lavender what their lane is and we want to take the first one and make it kind of
the low frequencies of the voice the next one to be kind of the honky sound of the voice the next
one would be kind of the edge of the voice and then this top one becomes the sibilance
and basically becomes a de-esser take a listen to what this sounds like this is the low band
this is that hawk band subordination but you're taking unnecessary risk and then here is the edge
that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination and then sibilance but you're taking unnecessary
risks pretty simple so we're going to link bands we're going to do a four to one ratio we're
going to make the attack about 50 we're going to make the release about 75 milliseconds and then
we're going to start bringing down the threshold that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks and you can see it's now doing a bit of eq because the red
bars are attenuation so it's attenuating some more of these honky frequencies edgy frequencies
than the sibilance or the base we're going to bring up the gain a little bit to compensate stunt
in the destroyer was insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks now with the sibilance we
want to control these oops i want to unlink this here we want to control these sibilants a little
bit more so we're going to bring that attack down that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
we might be doing a little too much so we'll bring the threshold but you're taking unnecessary risks
that stunt in the destroyer now sibilants are being controlled really nicely we still
have a lot of insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks so let's bring the threshold
down a little bit more maybe a lot more that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
and we can also sharpen up the attack so that it's really biting it and keeping it quiet
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination and what's great
about doing the multi-band compressor is that it's not only just bringing the volume down like an eq
but it's also keeping it contoured now i want to recover some of the bass frequencies of this nice
rich voice that we've lost and what we can do is i don't want to lose the control that i have you
can see that it's attenuating but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was
and maybe i want to slow it down just to give it a little more of a contoury kind of mastering
easy contour but i want to keep that control but instead of just bringing up the threshold which
will make me lose that control i'll just bring up the straight gain itself take a listen to what
this sounds like insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the
destroyer was insubordination but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer
was insane and now we might actually bring up the gain on the highs a little bit more subordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks just give it a little bit more edge
so compare this with a raw version of what we started with that's this track down here
just without any eq or anything on it that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
together but you're taking unnecessary risks that stunt in the destroyer was insubordination
massive difference and just with a few quick plug-ins we've got a much much better sounding
uh much better sounding situation and we can save this as a preset so that anytime this actor
shows up with this microphone we can just drop this in on a channel and we're good to go it's
so powerful and perhaps the multiband compressor in adobe products like audition and premiere
are is one of the best if not the best sounding post-production multi-band compressor that's
included with an nle or diw anywhere i love it it's easy to use and just makes
beautiful things out of mud sometimes in fact i've used multi-band compressors at shows
to help denoise things that are otherwise completely unintelligible from podcasts
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