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How to Remove echo and noise from a second microphone in Premiere Pro CC - 2020 Tutorial

If you've ever recorded a video with more than one presenter or if you have a podcast with multiple guests, you may notice that despite your best efforts you end up with an echo on each of the audio tracks.
This is an unfortunate phenomenon that sometimes can't be avoided even if you do your best in the set up. However you can fix this in post with the use of a simple audio effect that's available in Premiere Pro CC.
In this video I will show you how I edit my podcasts which are recorded with two Rode NT 1 microphones recorded into a ZOOM H6 audio recorder. You could be recording into another audio device or even audio software, as long as you have two seperate audio tracks containing the audio of each of the vocals then you can follow along and learn how to easily remove echo and room noise from both tracks!
#premierepro #audio #tutorial #adobe

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  • @retrobotjr
    @retrobotjr4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I was looking for. Recording a weekly conversation with two lavalier microphones and spent hours last week manually adjusting the audio each time someone spoke, this will save me so much work this week. Thanks!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same thing, this came up for me when I started doing podcasts with guests, glad there is an easier way than doing it manually!

  • @SpikeAllibone
    @SpikeAllibone3 жыл бұрын

    You have totally saved my life this evening! - Thank you so much. This was totally thorough and a beautiful level of teaching! - Thanks again.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear that this was helpful! it can be so hard to get audio right especially when the Room isn't set up for it. So this technique can certainly help out.

  • @kaspergaram
    @kaspergaram Жыл бұрын

    Excellent tutorial! This is something I've been looking for for a while now. This solves so many of my podcast recording issues. Thank you!!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear that you found it helpful! All the best with the podcast!

  • @kaspergaram

    @kaspergaram

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Touchtechnologyreview Thank you!

  • @propulsetoi
    @propulsetoi2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video! You're going to spare me a lot of hours of work in the future. Thank you so much!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear that!

  • @marcodemac
    @marcodemac2 жыл бұрын

    Muchas gracias! Thank you so muuuuuch! It really helped me, I was trying a whole week dealing with this problem but you made a very clear solution. Really, thank you!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are very welcome! So pleased to hear that it was helpful to you!

  • @mikegc3816
    @mikegc38168 ай бұрын

    I managed to use this with Davinci Resolve and it worked - thanks

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    8 ай бұрын

    Great to hear!

  • @payout2864
    @payout2864 Жыл бұрын

    EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! Omg thanks a lot you saved my podcast.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    Жыл бұрын

    Great to hear that it was helpful!

  • @openteams6924
    @openteams69243 жыл бұрын

    This was fantastic thank you!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great, glad to hear that. Thanks for watching!

  • @anoynmousnaan823
    @anoynmousnaan8235 ай бұрын

    Incredible. Thanks! There are certain parts of the track where the guest speaker speaks way too quietly and it just cuts it out entirely. Not too sure on how to fix that

  • @lesterrockwell6476
    @lesterrockwell64764 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear that! Thanks for watching!

  • @carlovitulo
    @carlovitulo Жыл бұрын

    You saved my life. Love from Italy.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad I could help!

  • @theaviorguk
    @theaviorguk2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks really helpful

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear!

  • @tyluild
    @tyluild2 жыл бұрын

    I am just wondering would you always recommend doing a post edit using Premier Pro or would you perhaps recommend using Adobe Audition? My partner and I are planning on starting a podcast and/or youtube gaming we have a focusrite 2i2 I have a Rode Procaster and he an Audix om2. We would record for KZread videos using OBS. Would you say it's best to fix certain settings in OBS such as noise gate etc. Or record raw in OBS then edit in Premier or in fact to record audio into Adobe Audition and have certain settings and plugins on Adobe Audition. Just wondering what might be the absolute best way forward. Thank you

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    2 жыл бұрын

    These are all great questions. I find that in order to speed things up I can do all the audio processing I need in Premiere. However when it comes to certain enhancements sometimes you can get better results using Audition or other audio apps such as Logic. So if I have the time I will often do that. However Premiere really does have all the tools you need to do it right there in the edit. As far as streamlining it further, yes you could use some audio filters in OBS including a gate. This can speed things up. However my only warning there is that if it over does the filter and cuts out too much you never get it back as it is baked into the file you are recording. So really you may be better off leaving the audio optimisation to post production so you have full control over it.... Certainly if you want to stream and upload then you can use the filters in OBS to save time.

  • @tyluild

    @tyluild

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Touchtechnologyreview Thank you for all of that! The main aim really is to ensure no echo. You have been a big help someone recommend we get two dbx 286s' but that seems a little pricy just to ensure there is no mic bleed/ echo

  • @starlight6016
    @starlight60164 жыл бұрын

    So useful!! Would this also work if there are 4 lavs and they all have this issue?

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes as long as each was recorded on its own separate track. However with 4 mics running depending on how close the subjects were to one another there may be a lot more echo coming in on each track so it may be less effective.

  • @robrogers8909
    @robrogers89093 жыл бұрын

    This is a fantastic tutorial, thank you so much. But if you are in a noisy environment (street for example) it seems you cannot get rid of bleed this way without effecting ambient noise??

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great, Glad you found it helpful! Yeah it is really hard to get rid of specific ambient noises especially in a street or cafe etc. The best I ever did with that type of problem was to use Adobe Audition which has an AI noise removal tool that lets you cut out certain frequencies. Worked OK but certainly impacted the clarity of the vocal and sounded a bit fake. So not really sure if there is a great way to do this. Certainly for future recordings it would be about experimenting with more sensitive mics that only pick up the vocal and can block out ambient noise. Can be a matter of trial and error there. Always a challenge to shoot in noisy environments.

  • @andyrogers5622

    @andyrogers5622

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Touchtechnologyreview Thanks for the great reply! In my case, no doubt it's mostly my fault. I ran two separate lav mics on two recorders carried on person - it was a walk/ride around at a busy beach area. Mic #1 was a decent enough: Sony H1n + somewhat decent and directional lav mic. Mic #2 was unfortunately a Sony IC recorder + cheap mic (very omni-directional). The IC recorder is obviously better left to recording lectures... The gain cannot be manually set and it keeps bringing up the noise floor. It's all I could access at the time for this very run and gun style shoot (a pilot episode for a new KZread channel I would like to start). Although the cheap setup was quite "radio" sounding, it actually didn't do a terrible job. The only standout problem being the spill when both mics were close enough. Moving those clips a frame or two in post helps somewhat, but the spill is unavoidable and slightly annoying in a few spots. I'll be getting another H1n and identical mic soon, although.. I do have a H4n and am entertaining the idea of going with wireless lav mics straight into XLR on the H4n.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andyrogers5622 Yes I get what you mean. It really is all about the mics in the end. Regarding the XLR into the Zoom you may have to get 3.5 to XLR convertors to run two mics in simultaneously. If the Lav mics need phantom power they often are only 10V so if you put phantom power on on the zoom at 24 or 48 it can blow the mics. So there is a specific 3.5 to XLR adaptor from rode the VXLR+. It converts phantom power to plugin power. So check the mics to see if they need phantom if not just a regular 3.5 to XLR adaptor will be fine.

  • @zerobolt9506
    @zerobolt95062 жыл бұрын

    How do u do this type of thing when you're talking to someone in a game or in party chat, but are recording your voice separately for a video your doing?

  • @PHATVideos
    @PHATVideos Жыл бұрын

    thank you so much lol

  • @MA-ph5ib
    @MA-ph5ib3 жыл бұрын

    Hi! For future reference. I'm editing a podcast audio.. and I need a particular "quote" from one of the speakers on the podcast. But, the interviewer talked over the interviewee. I need to mute the person who spoke over (in this case was the interviewer) I tried what you did here and didn't work (maybe I did it wrong?) I tried splitting the OG audio track into 2 tracks (left and right) I even try the mix audio effect. Anyway, do you have any tutorials that could help me in the future? Thanks in advance

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is hard to say. As it depends on the microphones used and set up and how loud that second voice was. Basically the idea would be to seperate the track that has the vocal you want to have in the front of the mix and listen to it without any other tracks playing. Now if you can hear that second person in that track and it is quite loud then using these techniques won't really be able to help much.This is more for subtle echo and room noise. SO really the best you can do is to manually cut out bits where the other guy is speaking but if it is literally occurring while the main guy is speaking it will be hard. I have heard of some third party noise removal tools that can do it by frequency but it can be tricky.

  • @leapnlarry
    @leapnlarry5 ай бұрын

    Because the echo from the other speaker is from distance, can you just micro adjust the audio timeline using audio timecode, will that adjust reduce the echo so the audios are synced better. larry

  • @BUDMAASH420
    @BUDMAASH4203 жыл бұрын

    video starts from 3:36 Thanks me leter

  • @oaktea

    @oaktea

    2 жыл бұрын

    6:21 if you're here because you have the same problem and you don't need the problem explained, just the solution

  • @lukesheridan9162
    @lukesheridan91622 ай бұрын

    Hi this is exactly the problem I need help solving. Do you have a similar video for the latest adobe premier pro?? Or does anyone else know? I'm really struggling!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    2 ай бұрын

    If you have the latest version of Premiere Pro try the new enhance Speech AI feature: Video on the topic here kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKCH1reNqdbYZbQ.html

  • @juliansilva2361
    @juliansilva23613 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the info! But This could have easily been less than 2 minutes lol Cheers!

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 ай бұрын

    You're very welcome. Fair enough...sometimes I do go on a bit.

  • @michaelspeciale8791
    @michaelspeciale87913 жыл бұрын

    It works to a point.... guess I got to go manual

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah it does help when the echo and noise is minimal but if there is simply too much spill over then manually removing the audio in each track is the way to go.

  • @michaelspeciale8791

    @michaelspeciale8791

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Touchtechnologyreview for my next podcast I lowered the gain and ask the guest to speak directly into the mic.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelspeciale8791 Yes that will make a big difference. 👍

  • @jarnodehaeze7443
    @jarnodehaeze74434 жыл бұрын

    can you do this on a video when you only have one track of audio?

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you have two vocals recorded onto the one track on the mix then this particular method wont work as well. You can still use the noise gate a little to reduce some of the echo but not to the extent that you can when you have the two seperate audio tracks.

  • @Nicole_Night

    @Nicole_Night

    4 жыл бұрын

    Touch Technology Review What do you suggest you do if this was the case? I recorded gameplay footage with voiceover and apparently I had “two” sources of sound for my voice to pick up, so the end results has my voice echo on itself. However, it was only recorded onto one audio track...

  • @simsonmails

    @simsonmails

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Nicole_Night yes, i want to know also. mark this

  • @coachtonytorres
    @coachtonytorres3 жыл бұрын

    wow if i show you a video can you tell me if the echoing is fixable?

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    So sorry I missed your comment a few months back. Sometimes KZread blocks links so if you still need me to asses it email it to info@touchtechnologyreview.com

  • @TheDudes115
    @TheDudes1157 ай бұрын

    Not once in all of my experience has anyone ever sat close enough to the microphone. No matter how many times I tell them

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah it's always a struggle. Thankfully there is always editing in post. I use this method and now with AI have started using the built in Audio Enhancement feature. I would encourage you check it out, takes all the pain out of the edit: Video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKCH1reNqdbYZbQ.html

  • @Millersmedias
    @Millersmedias6 ай бұрын

    WHAT ABOUT DAVINCI?!?!?!

  • @boyar1978
    @boyar19783 жыл бұрын

    perhaps i like listening to myself via echo. I like sounding like a droid and every so often having that high pitched sound deafen me and my audience.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL, yeah it can sound ok sometime. I have a real issue with it as I like the audio to sound clean and isolate. Can be a matter of preference.

  • @boyar1978

    @boyar1978

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Touchtechnologyreview i think it depends on what effects and their equipment. Normally i listen to the video before i post it and as long as background noise is not overpowering my speech I am fine with it. I figure if i am making let play videos the audience is more interested in game play than what I am saying.

  • @Touchtechnologyreview

    @Touchtechnologyreview

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@boyar1978 Yeah for sure as long as there is no excessive background noise a bit of echo is fine and quite often expected. As you say the actual content is king.

  • @jackdaniels9425
    @jackdaniels942511 ай бұрын

    long ass tutorial for no reason. first 7 minutes could be removed