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Select the Rectangular Marquee tool, and then select the cell phone ring. Make 
the marquee selection just slightly bigger than the visible ring. Be as precise as 
possible. When you’re finished, the selection appears as an opaque box around 
the cell phone ring with a dB adjustment tool floating above it.
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 Note:
A common mistake is to reduce noise selections to the maximum (–96 dB) to remove them 
completely. However, this creates a complete void in that frequency spectrum for your selection, 
which is often noticeable. Most noises are soft enough that –34 dB is enough to eliminate them 
without removing the frequency space completely. Experiment by removing the least amount 
possible to keep your audio sounding natural.
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Adjust the selection to –34 dB. This reduces the frequencies you selected with 
the Marquee tool by –34 dB.
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Zoom out, and play the clip. Even though it appears that some of the ring tone 
is still there, notice it is dark blue, which means very low volume.
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Save the changes to the clip by choosing File > Save. Switch back to Adobe 
Premiere Pro, and notice that the audio file on the Timeline has been updated 
with the changes.

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LESSON 13
Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
Adding audio effects in Adobe Soundbooth
You will use the same audio file to add a few effects in Adobe Soundbooth. 
Continue where you left off in Adobe Soundbooth with the audio problem.wav file.
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Another way to add an effect to the Effects panel is to click the “Add an effect 
to the rack” icon (
) in the lower-right corner of the panel. Choose Vocal 
Enhancer from the Effects menu. In the Effects panel, choose Male as the effect 
preset for the Vocal Enhancer effect.