18 Tips I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Adobe Audition

so today i want to show you guys 18 tips i wish i knew when i started using adobe audition now these tips aren't that deep they're mostly for beginners but if you're an expert you can still follow along if you want to you might learn something who knows but uh yeah i hope you guys enjoyed this video if you do make sure to give it a thumbs up let's go ahead and get into tip number one i never used adobe's auto-tune for about four years i didn't even know there was auto-tune or pitch correction in adobe it never caught my attention because it says automatic pitch correction it doesn't really say like auto-tune but i just want to say that adobe has some of the best most organic auto-tune there is mind you there's not many settings you got your scale you got your key you got attack and you got sensitivity but it works really well if you guys want a natural pitch and you don't want to make it sound like auto-tune keep it around 100 the sensitivity and keep the attack at two that will give you like a normal it doesn't sound too auto tuney it sounds like you're trying to sing but if you crank the attack and sensitivity this will give you that t-pain auto-tune effect it's super basic but this auto-tune pitch correction works really good and i just want to throw that out there till this day eight years later this is still my favorite auto-tune plug-in and i've used several of other auto-tune plug-ins now number two they have one of the best compressors i've ever used it's a stock preset stock plug-in stock effect the classic soft knee dynamics processing if you go to your effects go down to uh dynamics processing you'll see it classic soft knee one of the best compressors i use it for every single one of my songs love it number three i'm gonna go through some shortcuts if you hit shift and space you can record so you don't gotta go use your mouse go down to record and click record if you hit control z that's undo now control z you can undo anything like if you're on youtube and you type something in wrong you can hit ctrl z and it will undo that so control z is like universal when you make a chorus for your music you don't have to record the course three different times you can record the chorus one time highlight your clips ctrl g that will group your clips ctrl c to copy and then you can go over to the other part of the beat where the chorus is ctrl v and that will paste it and boom you have your chorus on the other side next these yellow and white lines because i've had people ask me about those before now this yellow line controls the volume of your clip so if you bring this up is this going to bring the volume up you can also click in there add little points and move it up so you can like slowly fade it up if you want to then this white line is for panning your vocal if you move it down it's going to go to the right speaker if you move it up it's going to go to the left speaker so sometimes like your workspace will get messed up and you might like lose your effect rack or you might lose your files your record thing starts going missing you can't see the time or like can't see your favorites and somehow your con your workspace gets all messed up well if you go to window workspace you can go to reset classic and then reset your workspace that's how you reset your workspace adobe has some awesome noise reduction so if you guys have hissing in your music they have some awesome restoration effects like noise reduction this will get rid of any like white noise some hissing in the background click remover so if you like go like that or something in the background this will get rid of any like clicks stuff like that we're going to talk about the appearance so you can go down to preferences and go to your appearance and you can change the appearance of your uh adobe the theme so if you guys know the tempo of the song i have no clue what the tempo of this beat is but if you do know the tempo you can set the tempo and it will put a metronome in the background and it will help you stay on beat [Music] so that's pretty cool and then you got this little clock right here now this little clock right here this will stretch your vocals so say you're trying to like sing a long note and you didn't sing it long enough or say you sang it too long like in my case right here you can either stretch your clip or you can shorten it so in this case i shortened it so you can see it's at 66 percent it was at 100 i didn't like that i felt like it was too long so i brought it down to 66 so that helps you stretch your vocals and then next to the clock we have a magnet now you want to keep this like on the whole time now say you copy and paste the chorus if you don't use the magnet it's going to be a lot harder to line that up underneath but if you use the magnet it just like locks right in now this is another equalizer by adobe so if you go to uh filtering eq you'll see 10 band 20 band 30 bands this is a 30 band eq the reason i like using this is because it's more precise first off you have every single like frequency and second is that it goes above 20k when i bring these knobs over here all the way to the right up this kind of puts like air in my vocal and when i bring these up i usually only bring like the first two up the only reason i brought the one up is because i recorded this on a 40 usb microphone so like the microphones are not the best so when you start bringing up those high frequencies it starts to get a little harsh this will put like air saturation in your vocals and it sounds really nice it gives you like a breathy up front nice vocal sizzly vocal all right number 10 i'm going to go through these buttons up here so if you want to access your effects quickly on the side you can click effects up here how these arrows this is your input this will give you your mic your master your bus tracks then we have our send says sends our sends button here this will enable you to like add a bus track so say you didn't want to add effects here on the side like if you look on each and every single one of these tracks i have effects on the side well you can add a bus track like add bus add effects to the bus track and then link all these tracks to the one bus track instead of adding effects to each track on the side if you start adding a bunch of presets to each and every single track your computer is eventually going to start lagging and slowing down and then we have your levels right here this little level image and this shows your eq so instead of going to your mixer you can see your eq right on the side right here your clip effects so you have your effect racks and then if you go to clip effects there's nothing there right now but say i wanted to add more autotune on this track right here because i didn't sing it properly or i wanted more reverb on the end so you can click anywhere in here then go to your clip effects and then add whatever effect you want like say i wanted more auto-tune on that part and more reverb so now only this clip over here has more reverb so if you want to add effects to one single clip you can do that next i want to mention this little fader you should always use this fader so i never i didn't used to use these faders at all like my tracks would just look like this no fade now each and every single one of my tracks i fade in the right and the left the start and the ending you don't really want your vocal to end like abruptly and also like say you're recording and you have breaths you can go up to your eraser cut in between click it hit delete and then fade that and then fade that and you cut your breath out also this is pretty simple track two track four track five now if you click that you can change the name of the track so this is my hook this is my bridge and this is like my versus now beside your volume you have this level right here now you'll see an r if i go right and you'll see l if i go left now that's bringing your vocal to the right and that's bringing your vocal to the left now usually when i use this i'll use it for background vocals i record my main vocal right here and then say i want to do a vocal underneath it i pan this one to the left then i do another one underneath this one and i pan this one to the right and then you have one in the middle one to the left and one to the right all right now i'm gonna go over an awesome little plugin that i never used for a long time until like earlier last year this adobe mastering plugin so if you go to your master track down here this master track is controlling everything so if i raise the volume of this master track it's gonna con raise the volume of the beat it's gonna raise the volume of the vocals the ad-libs everything that's in the session if i put an eq on this master track and i cut the lows off it's gonna cut the lows off to everything in the session including the b everything so this master track controls everything now what i like doing is putting this mastering plug-in on this master track if you go down to your master track on the side and click this arrow and go down to special and go down to mastering you got this adobe stock mastering plug-in effect and you have some settings here now i don't use the reverb i usually only use reverb on vocals besides reverb you got an exciter which is like saturation so it gives you like this sizzly sound to your song like uh and then you have a widener which is going to like pan the song make everything nice and wide then you have your loudness maximizer and your output gain which is going to like make your song louder a hit more harder and then you have an eq so i like using this a lot when i master my songs don't forget to throw that on there and i also like using it on my vocals by the way you'll see these are all adobe stock effects so my 30 bands auto-tune my compressor fft filter higher limiter and i got two mastering things here which i'm pretty much using the saturation and the wider and a little bit of eq and i got two of these i got a tape saturation and then i got a tube saturation and i'm bringing down the highs around 4k on the eq this will get rid of any uh like nasaliness in my vocals then i have this little chorus effect on here then we have some reverb another reverb a studio reverb and some echo and then forget about this that was not meant to be there yeah those are all stock effects so you know if you just pause the video you got that whole preset and adobe has some awesome stock effects i'm telling you that right now all right so adding plugins so say you don't want to use their stock effects and you want to add some like auto-tune here some uad auto-tune you got adobe now you want to go to waves.com and you want to buy some plug-ins if you go to effects and go to audio plug-in manager and then click scan for plugins it will scan for the plugins after you download them and then click ok and then go down to vsts and you should have your plugins pretty simple now to be honest this video was finished but i thought of one more awesome little tip so when you write a song to your beat and you have to be in your session like this you can color the clips so it makes it easier for you to organize the beat and you know where the hook is and the verses are so the blue part is my hook and the green part is my verses if you right click it and go to clip and group color you can change the color right there if you go to your razor cut cut cut a little portion of it out and right click it and go there and pick a color and there you go now when i'm writing my song this makes it a lot easier because i know where my course is and i know where my verses are even when you're recording as well you know where your verses are and you know where your course is i just gotta write one more verse and then we're done but coloring the clips just makes it easier for you to like write the song and organize everything so that's pretty much it i hope you guys enjoyed this video i hope it helped you out a little bit just just a little bit i hope you took something from it and if you didn't i still hope you enjoyed this video i'm losing my hood here subscribe if you're not subscribed if you guys want to see some more awesome little videos like this drop a comment let me know what you want to see i'll see you guys soon with another awesome a video like this like this like you

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Length: 14min 4sec (844 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020