Distorted audio 3 mics

[Benjamin38838463hb6c]

Hello,

I recently started editing a podcast with Adobe premiere pro. I've done a 2 person edit with video and audio tracks, with those projects I have 2 video files and 2 audio files, quality has been great. I did our first 3 person podcast, which now gave me 3 separate audio tracks. When editing the 3 audios, I get almost like a distortion/not clean sound for the tracks, I was able to play around with it and the only way I could get the audio to sounds good was to cut the 3 audios and disable the other 2 tracks while one person was talking to make audio sounds good. This process took too long I was hoping someone has a solution or can tell me what I'm doing incorrectly to fix this issue. 

[PaulMurphy · Accepted solution]

Hi Benjamin,

Is your audio meter showing red when you're playing back your clips? This could mean that your audio is "peaking," which happens when the sound levels are too high and cause distortion. The more audio clips you stack on top of each other, the higher your audio meters will reach, until eventually they peak. 

To fix this, you can turn down the gain on your clips. A quick way to do this is using the Essential Sound panel:

1. Select your audio clips in the timeline.
2. Go to Window > Essential Sound to open the Essential Sound panel.
3. In the Essential Sound panel, select Dialogue (if it's dialogue audio).
4. Click Auto-Match.

This should help reduce the distortion and make your audio clearer.

Cheers,
Paul

[annabellecat]

Paul, this just solved our problem, thank you - hope it solved yours too Benjamin.