Recording voice-overs The Audio Mixer in Adobe Premiere Pro is also a basic recording studio. It can
record anything you can connect to your sound card. In this case, you’ll use your
computer’s microphone to do a voice recording.
1 Remove any audio files from the Timeline, and set the current-time indicator at
the beginning.
2 Make sure your computer’s microphone is plugged in to the Mic input on your
sound card, and make sure your audio setup is set to recognize and record from
the microphone and that it is not muted. Check your computer’s documentation
if you are not sure how to set up a microphone to record.
3 Choose Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware (Windows) or Premiere Pro >
Preferences > Audio Hardware (Mac OS), and ensure that your default device
is the hardware to which you have connected your microphone.
4 In the Audio Mixer, click the Enable track for recording button (the
microphone) at the top of the audio track to which you want to record.
Enable track
for recording
You can enable as many tracks as you like, but you can’t record to the master
track or a submix track. If you have more than one microphone enabled on
your system, choose the microphone you want to use in the pop-up menu that
appears above the microphone button.
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Note: Selecting
Default will work in
most circumstances.
However, if you have
a higher-end audio
card, you should select
it, refer to its product
manual, and make any
needed changes to its
ASIO settings.
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Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
5 Click the red Record button at the bottom of the Audio Mixer. The button
starts blinking.
