Using EQ to Make Dialogue Sound Better

Explain the process of using the EQ to enhance your dialog.  Why would you want to use this process?

    To begin with, when using Adobe Audition, to open the equalizer, you must go to the effects tab and find filter and eq (in the video, he uses the Parametric equalizer.) The first step is to turn on the high pass filter and set it to 60Hz as there's generally not anything in the human voice below that level. Next is the low pass filter set to 18kHz (18000Hz) for similar reasons. The next steps are to reduce the harshness of the voice, then sweeten it up. For this process, it must be done by ear as there are no set of "ideal" values or numbers that can give you the desired outcome. First, you should boost a mid tone to 9db and narrow it by increasing the Q/width to 20. This creates a tool that you can use to more easily identify where the harshness is by amplifying specific frequencies. Once you find it, you should then lower the db to around -4 or -5 in order to reduce the harshness then widen the Q. Lastly, you should sweeten up the voice to make it sound better by adding bass boost and increasing articulation. To add bass boost, you simply just have to increase the db of some of the lower frequencies. When equalizing feminine voices, you'll have to boost in more as masculine voices tend to have more base already. To increase the articulation, you increase the db of higher frequencies. The reason why you'd want to use equalization is to improve the quality and have more professional sounding audio.