Reduce Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer 

5 years later, this video is still extremely useful ☺️. I just moved to a new studio and my first recording here was not exactly the best: the space didn't sound echo-y while recording but my mic actually picked lots of it. All fixed thanks to these advices, so thank you!

You just saved my project!! I thought that I would have to call people into the studio to do a voice-over but this technique worked magically! THANK YOU!

It's good to know about this effect. It would've been nice if you started the video with a "before and after" before you go in and show us how you did it. This way us viewers know if this is the right video for us or not. But thanks for the tutorial nonetheless.

Did not remove the full echo but certainly reduced it to a more pleasant tone with more bass, clearer voice. Thanks mate.

HOLY CRAP!!! This was SOOOO helpful!! We had some audio issues on set and ended up having to use scratch audio, but it was super echoey and muddy. You just saved my project... VERY simple, great explanation. Seriously. Thank you!

So helpful! This totally saved my whole project.

This is outstanding!!!!!!!! I had to shoot a 2 person interview and the mic on one of my subjects died forcing me to use the audio from the one remaining good mic. This helped clean up the audio tremendously!!! Thank you so much for these pointers!!!!

This was a very simple trick and it worked great, thank you for this.

Thanks for putting up this video. Very helpful.

This was super helpful, thank you so much!

LOVED this. Thanks!! 😍

As i am a novice to tweaking audio, its good to see the technique you are using. But i can't really tell if the audio is better after your adjustment. And when you are moving the points around, i can't tell what exactly you are listening for. You find a point and you say this is a bad spot, now lets turn it down. I guess i just can't tell what the bad spot is just from listening. I wish more time in this video was spent analyzing and explaining those trouble points that are being brought down. I'm going to keep tinkering and hopefully it will click in my brain and i'll understand better. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

Very helpful! Totally appreciate you.

Thank you for this tutorial!!

OMG, YOU TOTALLY HELPED ME OUT!! Thank you!!!!

Thank you so much! This was a huge help.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Wow, just casually having a stab at this improved my audio massively, thanks so much!

Thank you for great explanation. I will give it a try.

This helped me so much. Made such a difference to a project I'm working on.

Super Helpful!

It helped! Thanks!

Thank you!

this is the bomb! Thanks man!

Thanks so much!

perfect dude. You are really nice to listen to and i love it that you cut to the chase. do you have tutorials about audio mixing in premire?

Wow, this is so helpful, thank you!

Thanks for saving my time! It helped me a lot!

thank you!

awesome thank you

Thank you!!!!

thank you

thanks

This really helped me out! Thanks for posting this!

Thank you so much bro! :D

Thanks for this! Really helped out my project.

Thanks for explaining how the different parameters effect the equalizer. Although did you remove the echo, you couldn't really tell?

Worked very well!

Got me outta a pickle, bro! My wireless lapel mic channel was FULL of rubbing, due to it being used alongside the venue's wireless handheld mic. (And no, a bank change on my lapel's freq. didn't help). My only option was to use the on-cam shotgun mic's audio. A quick repeat of what you did here has improved the audio in my project immensely.

Thank you for this tutorial. I have added the Parametric EQ effect, however, I do not find the customize button under the effect controls to open the Clip FX editor . I run Premiere Pro CS6 on windows. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Awesome tutorial! It took out some pretty gnarly echo!

Very usefull, i film a friend who are playing piano in a big place with lot of echo, thanks dude :D

very good videos helped me a alot keep it up :)

Man ! Thank-you !

Oh my god total game changer!! Cheers

Great info :). Thanks. I'm about to upgrade to a wireless lapel mic. $150 price range. Suggestions? I'm looking at the Pyle UHF PDWM3365

thanks very helpful :)

Thanks for this. I have this issue when i record game play/ screen capture videos. For some reason all the videos i record echo/reverb and it's annoying.

How do I playback while modifying the curves? Everytime I hit the spacebar to playback it plays but the moment I modify something in the equilizer it stops the audio (unlike what is shown in the video). Any setting for this to be set to on?

I'm trying to do these adjustments, but why can't I hear my changes live? each time I adjust one of the frequencies, I have stop then play the clip in order to hear what I changed

Very helpful, but it doesn't decrease echo tho, it cleans it, for sure! but does little for the echo itself :)

I dont get the custom tab, HELP!

Hi Sir , under the parametrics EQ there is not the edit option available . Do you think it's the version of my Adobe ? Thanks

I do not find the customize button

Mine dosen't seem to have the 'edit' option where the box pops up. help!

What am I doing wrong? When I click and drag a point around, the audio stops completely and I have to re-render the entire audio clip, which takes a minute each time.

Я сделала всё по уроку, но мне совершенно не помогло! Как было эхо в видео, так и осталось. :(

It's not even working. First off, this particular footage doesn't present echo in its audio... so what actually worked? This is a tutorial for a different thing not echo removal. Thanks for sharing though.

you didnt actually add a high or low pass / cut just fyi, but nice vid!

Your voice is much louder than the camera audio, so it's hard to hear what's going on.

Super helpful, thank you.