How to Remove Background Noise in Adobe Premiere Pro (All 3 Built-In Methods)

Adobe Premiere Pro (called Adobe Premiere from v26.0 onward) gives you three different ways to clean up noisy dialogue, and picking the wrong one is the usual reason voices end up sounding hollow or over-processed. Two of them live inside the Essential Sound panel (Window > Essential Sound): select your audio clip on the timeline, click Dialogue to tag it, and you'll see both Enhance Speech and the Repair tab.

Enhance Speech runs Adobe's AI voice cleanup locally on your computer with no file-length cap, and gives you a Mix Amount slider so you can blend a little natural room tone back in. Right underneath it, the Repair section has five 0-to-10 sliders for targeted fixes: Reduce Noise for steady air-conditioner or preamp hiss, Reduce Rumble for low-end mic bumps, footsteps, and wind below 80 Hz, DeHum for 50 Hz or 60 Hz electrical buzzing from power lines or lighting ballasts, DeEss for harsh 's' sounds, and Reduce Reverb for light room echo.

The third option is the standalone DeNoise and DeReverb effects under Effects (Shift + 7) > Audio Effects > Noise Reduction/Restoration. You can drag DeNoise onto a single clip and set its 0–100% Amount slider in Effect Controls (Shift + 5), or open the Audio Track Mixer (Shift + 6) and drop one DeNoise insert onto Track A1 so a single setting cleans every cut on that track at once.

• Enhance Speech (Window > Essential Sound > Dialogue)

  Best for mono dialogue recorded in a noisy location; pull the Mix Amount slider back to around 6–8 if 10 sounds overly dry or synthetic.

• Essential Sound Repair (0–10 sliders)

  Best for one specific problem: use DeHum (50 Hz or 60 Hz) for electrical buzz, Reduce Rumble for low mic handling noise, and keep Reduce Noise between 3 and 5 so voices stay natural.

• DeNoise & DeReverb in the Audio Track Mixer (Shift + 6)

  Best when a whole track shares the same room noise and you want one track-level insert instead of copying settings across dozens of razor cuts.

• Audo AI Remove noise from video & Audio enhancer (browser)

  Best when you need to keep stereo channels intact, want non-generative cleanup that never alters how syllables sound, or need to clean raw camera files on a machine without Premiere.

Premiere's Enhance Speech is greyed out whenever you select a multichannel clip or a nested sequence, and whenever you run it on a stereo clip, it turns the audio into a mono mix.

If you recorded a two-person interview with Lav 1 on the left channel and Lav 2 on the right channel of a stereo camera track, running Enhance Speech collapses both mics into a single mono track before you can pan or mute them separately. It also flattens any stereo room sound you wanted to keep. To avoid that in Premiere, split dual-channel camera audio into two mono tracks before running Enhance Speech, or use the DeNoise effect, which keeps stereo intact.

Because Enhance Speech rebuilds the voice, heavy background noise or a distant mic can sometimes make consonants sound slightly different from the speaker. And if a producer or assistant needs to clean raw camera footage before it goes into the timeline, without paying for another Creative Cloud seat, they can run the files through Audo AI in the browser.

Audo AI's Remove noise from video filters out background noise without regenerating the speaker's voice, while Audio enhancer removes both noise and hollow room echo with a 0% to 100% Strength slider. On MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, and AVI files up to 10 hours and 10 GB, Audo AI copies your original video picture straight into the finished file without re-encoding. The first minute of any file is free (3 times a day, no sign-up), and whole shoots cost $3.00 an hour ($0.05 a minute).

Use whichever fits your footage and track layout:

• Inside Adobe Premiere Pro

  If you're already cutting on an active Creative Cloud subscription, your dialogue is on mono tracks, and Enhance Speech or a Track Mixer DeNoise insert cleans the room noise cleanly.

• Audo AI Remove noise from video & Audio enhancer

  If Enhance Speech is greyed out, collapses your stereo track to mono, or changes the speaker's voice, if you have heavy room echo that Reduce Reverb leaves sounding metallic, or if you want two-speaker leveling (Audio leveler) and SRT captions (Auto captions) in the browser from $3.00 an hour (first minute free).