Bad audio take? Fix it in Premiere Pro.

Listen for 20 seconds on headphones and find the line that sounds like your take. The right fix depends on the problem, not on the trendy tool.

Constant background noise (ventilation, air conditioning, mic hiss): the easiest case. Reduce Noise does the job, and Reduce Rumble helps with a low hum.

Echo, a room that rings: Reduce Reverb, in the Essential Sound panel. Raise it gently. Too much, and the voice turns hollow.

A muffled or distant voice: Enhance Speech brings back presence. If the mic was far away, you get clarity back, not closeness.

Noise that changes (street, wind, people walking by): classic reducers struggle, because they learn a steady noise. This is where isolating the voice with AI helps most.

Clipping (the sound “cracks”, the peaks are flattened): the hardest case. A flattened peak has lost information. You can soften the result, not rebuild it. If you can redo the take, redo it.

Select the clip, open the Essential Sound panel (Window, Essential Sound) and click Dialogue. Click Enhance to run Enhance Speech: the task runs in the background, and the Mix Amount slider balances your original voice and the enhanced version. Adobe describes the feature in its online help.

In the Repair section, add Reduce Noise, Reduce Rumble, hum (DeHum) and reverb (Reduce Reverb) as needed. A slider pushed all the way gives a metallic voice: go up in small steps, listening as you go.

If Enhance Speech stays stuck at 0% while downloading, if the effect isn't applied on export, or if you hear no change, you're not alone: these are cases reported by users on Adobe's forum. For the download, the accepted answer in that thread suggests quitting Premiere, then cancelling and restarting the component download from the Creative Cloud app.

The Audio tab in Rushly isolates your voice with AI and separates it from noise, echo and background sounds, right on your sequence. The result lands on a new track, your original track stays untouched, and you can compare in one click with “Original sound | With Rushly”.

Rushly then mixes the voice: a chain of native Adobe effects (DeNoise, EQ, compressor, DeEsser, limiter) and a level set to your target: Social (-14 LUFS), Podcast (-16 LUFS) or Loud (-12 LUFS), with a true peak under -1 dBTP. With several voices, each track is measured and mixed separately.

It all happens in Premiere: no export, no website to open, no file to re-import. Only the voice to clean is sent, through Rushly's servers, to a voice isolation engine (ElevenLabs Voice Isolator). The video stays on your machine.

AI cleanup costs 10 credits per minute of voice, the mix 1 credit per 2 minutes: about 105 credits for 10 minutes of voice cleaned and mixed. The cost shows before you start, and your credits are refunded if the cleanup fails. The Free plan gives you 300 credits once, no credit card, which is about 28 minutes of voice.

No miracles, and it's better to know that before promising your client perfect sound. A clipped voice stays damaged: AI can soften the flaw, not rebuild the lost peaks. A voice you can't hear (a whisper, a mic at the other end of the room) stays hard to understand. Several people talking at once, or loud music under the voice, give uncertain results with any tool.

AI isolation can also smooth out the tone of a voice or leave a metallic trace. Listen on headphones, across the whole take, before you approve. Rushly only compares with your ear: no score, no percentage.

Move the mic closer to the mouth: it's the best “treatment” there is. Record ten seconds of room silence at the start (it helps set the noise reduction), keep the gain low enough that peaks stay under about -6 dB, and switch off the ventilation and the fridge if you can. And do a ten-second test before the interview starts, not after.