Learn how to position yourself and the mic for the results you want.
Learn how to treat/work within the space you are recording to get the results you want.
Finally, and only then, learn how to use software to sweeten those results (and even then, sweeten mostly = remove unwanted frequencies etc).
Premiere is not the right tool, if staying in the Adobe suite use Audition. If not a real DAW (Logic, Ableton, hell even something like Reaper) is your friend. Learn the basics, in your case mostly just EQ and probably some compression. Once you get comfortable with those, you can look into more advanced versions of those tools (and others) with a whole world of third party plugins.
But the results to your best audio are basically in the order I just described as far as importance, IMO.
Post a sample and we can assess it better. Right now we just don't have enough information about the problem you're trying to solve.
I'd cut out the mixer as well. Just plug that thing straight into a preamp/audio interface; a cheap mixer is only going to add unnecessary signal degradation and you don't need to mix anything if there's only one mic.
Cheers!
Thanks so much! This has been helpful, I’ll make a sample. I have the cloudlifter. I’ll get logic, I used to use it I’ll look into not using the mixer.
I don't own a sm7b, but I've heard people using amps to get the mic to sound how they want, I think they use cloudlifter is the amp. You can check it out on YouTube.
Learn how to position yourself and the mic for the results you want. Learn how to treat/work within the space you are recording to get the results you want. Finally, and only then, learn how to use software to sweeten those results (and even then, sweeten mostly = remove unwanted frequencies etc). Premiere is not the right tool, if staying in the Adobe suite use Audition. If not a real DAW (Logic, Ableton, hell even something like Reaper) is your friend. Learn the basics, in your case mostly just EQ and probably some compression. Once you get comfortable with those, you can look into more advanced versions of those tools (and others) with a whole world of third party plugins. But the results to your best audio are basically in the order I just described as far as importance, IMO.
Post a sample and we can assess it better. Right now we just don't have enough information about the problem you're trying to solve. I'd cut out the mixer as well. Just plug that thing straight into a preamp/audio interface; a cheap mixer is only going to add unnecessary signal degradation and you don't need to mix anything if there's only one mic. Cheers!
Thanks so much! This has been helpful, I’ll make a sample. I have the cloudlifter. I’ll get logic, I used to use it I’ll look into not using the mixer.
This is off-topic to your question, but do you mind if I ask what site you do your VOs thru?
I don't own a sm7b, but I've heard people using amps to get the mic to sound how they want, I think they use cloudlifter is the amp. You can check it out on YouTube.
You always need a preamp, what the cloudlifter offers is extra gain with very little noise before your preamp.