10 Audio Presets for Adobe Premiere Pro

Ten custom presets for Adobe Premiere Pro, designed to help improve your audio and to expedite your workflow. We’ll cover how to use each of them.

Transparent Voiceover Compression

This this preset opens a tube-modeled compressor effect, and provides moderate compression on vocal recordings with an average level of -12 dB. The setting works perfectly for studio-recorded vocals, but will also work especially well for dialogue in-studio or on location. Use caution with recordings that contain heavy background noise, as compression may make background noise more audible.

Multiband Compressor: Condensers at -12dB

This preset opens a multiband compressor suited for dialogue and speech, and provides moderate compression for audio with an average level of -12 dB. It uses four separate frequencies to shape both dynamics and tone of the recording, for rich, broadcast-quality audio. The brick wall limiter prevents the audio signal from clipping at the output. It’s best suited for vocals recorded in a studio environment using a large diaphragm condenser microphone, although it we’ve had success using it for dynamic microphones and lavalieres as well. Use caution with recordings that contain heavy background noise, as compressors may make the noise more audible.

EQ: Highpass Filter – 100Hz

The high-pass filter is essential for voiceover, narration, and dialogue, and helps eliminate extraneous noise from wind, rumble, plosives, and mic handling noise. This presets opens the high-pass filter effect and set to 100Hz, perfect for virtually all speech and singing. A good highpass filter should allow the sound of a person’s voice to pass through unaffected while only removing unwanted low-frequency noise.

EQ: Clarity Boost

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with 2.5 dB of gain at 11 kHz. This helps increase the audibility of consonants in voiceover, dialogue, and singing. The effect is subtle and best intended for studio recordings. You may find that boomy, or muddy-sounding voices might require even more of a high-frequency boost. For those, use our aggressive high frequency boost preset (see below).  

For normal recordings made in a studio environment, the Clarity Boost preset should suffice. Combine with the Highpass Filter, Mid-Scoop, and Multiband Compressor preset for best results. 

EQ: Low-Shelf Cut

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with 2.5 dB of low-shelf attenuation at 200 Hz, and a low-cut filter engaged to 90 Hz. The effect is subtle, but helps remove unwanted low-frequencies from audio recordings, and well suited for vocals recorded at close proximity to a microphone. Extreme cases may need even more low-frequency attenuation, for which we advise using the Aggressive Low-Frequency Cut preset. 

EQ: Low-Mid Scoop

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with 8 dB of attenuation at roughly 500 Hz. This should significantly reduce nasal or wooly-sounding low-mid frequencies that occur typically from addressing a microphone too closely. If this preset doesn’t improve the sound, try moving the mid-band frequency selector to 600 Hz, or opt instead for the Mid-Scoop preset. 

EQ: Mid-Scoop 

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with 6 dB of attenuation at 800 Hz. This should significantly reduce nasal or wooly-sounding low-mid frequencies that occur typically from addressing a microphone too closely. If this preset doesn’t improve the sound, try moving the mid-band frequency selector to 1,000 Hz. 

EQ: Midrange Scoop for Music/Ambience

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with an aggressive 18 dB of attenuation at 1250 Hz, and is intended for background and sound effects used behind dialogue or voiceover. The frequencies of background music and sound effects can often occupy the same space as speech, and using this filter helps preserve the loudness of background music/effects without sacrificing voiceover intelligibility. Be sure turn to turn off the effect in-between voiceover passages, as the effect may sound distracting on its own.  

EQ: Aggressive High-Frequency Boost

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with 2.5 dB of gain at 11kHz. The effect dramatically increases high frequency audio content. This preset may work well for muddy-sounding lavaliere mics or poorly recorded audio with too much low-end.

EQ: Aggressive Low-Frequency Cut

This preset opens a parametric equalizer with 3 dB of boost at 11 kHz and 5 dB high-shelf boost at 3 kHz. The effect dramatically boosts high-frequencies and improves clarity and diction for vocals. This preset may work well for muddy-sounding lavaliere mics and or poorly recorded audio. Use judiciously!

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