notes on a laptop is never the same as listening on larger speakers.
It’s important to listen to your audio using high-quality headphones or studio monitor speakers to
avoid accidentally compensating for a flaw in your playback hardware as you adjust the sound.
Professional audio-monitoring hardware is carefully calibrated to ensure that all frequencies play
evenly—a “flat” response, giving you confidence that you’ll produce a consistent sound for your
listeners.
It can be helpful to listen to your audio on low-quality speakers too. This allows you to confirm
that enough of the audio is clear and that low frequency sound doesn’t cause distortion.
Premiere Pro offers a variety of helpful effects, including the following, all of which are
available in the Effects panel:
Parametric Equalizer: This effect allows you to make subtle and precise adjustments to
the audio level at different frequencies.
Studio Reverb: This can increase the “presence” in the recording with reverb. Use it to
simulate the sound of a larger room.
Delay: This effect can add a slight (or pronounced) echo to your audio track.
Bass: This effect can adjust the low-end frequencies of a clip. It works well on narration
clips, particularly for male voices.
Treble: This effect adjusts the higher-range frequencies in an audio clip.Note
Expand your knowledge of audio effects in Premiere Pro by experimenting. These effects
are nondestructive, which means they do not change your original audio files. You can
add any number of effects to a clip, change settings, and then delete them and start again.Apply effects by dragging them from the Effects panel onto clips, just as you dragged transition
effects onto edits earlier. Select a clip to find its effect controls in the Effect Controls panel.
There are often presets to help you get a feel for the ways you can use effects.
You can remove an effect in the Effect Controls panel by selecting it and pressing Delete
(macOS) or Backspace (Windows).
Use the 01 Effects sequence to experiment with audio effects. The clips in this sequence have a