- Hello, I'm Mike Russell
from musicradiocreative.com. In this video, I'll show you
how to use Adobe Audition. Check out my Premiere Pro audio presets. If you're working with
dialogue, different microphones or you need to do some noise
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to download them now. That's mrc.fm/presets. ♪ Check the mike and make
sure it sound right boy ♪ ♪ It sound right boy ♪ So, many of you watching this video will be new to Adobe Audition and want to know how to get started. It's not that overwhelming. It can help you not only
record great audio podcasts but also edit audio for your videos to upload to YouTube, et cetera. So let's take a look at it. Here is the default
interface when we launch and before we even hit record down here, we'll want to make sure we've got our audio
devices set up correctly. On Windows, that's under
Edit and Preferences. On a Mac it's under the Adobe
Audition CC menu, Preferences. Then you wanna go to Audio Hardware and make sure you select your
audio input and output device. For me, it's my Soundcraft
mixing desk, for you, it might be your Focusrite
Scarlett or something like that, whatever you use to get audio
in and out of your computer. You'll also want to go
to Audio Channel Mapping and make sure you're
recording the correct channels and also playing back
from the correct channels because I have a multi-track
12 channel mixer, my inputs and outputs and the audio channel
mapping are quite complex. Once you've got that set up, you should be able to hit record and give your audio file a name. I'm gonna call it Mike. You can keep the sample rate
at 44100, that's decent. Mono or stereo, and always
record at 32 bit float, you'll thank me later. Hello, this is Mike Russell
making my first recording inside Adobe Audition, and
then to stop, click the stop. Now, it was undesirable to
have, and then to stop included, so I just use my cursor to
select that piece of audio, and then to stop, and delete
it with the delete key. Simple, right? Next, I'm gonna increase the volume by taking this little volume
knob and make this louder. Hello, this is Mike Russell, but if I'm a bit scared
of changing volume knobs and I just want it to
be the loudest it can be without distorting, go
into the Favorites menu, Normalize to -0.1 dB, or if you don't like being too
close to distortion, -3 dB, but then, is that earlier
tip of recording in 32 bit, that you'll thank me for now, you can actually go above zero dB and you can still rescue your audio and it will never distort. How cool is that? Hello, this is Mike Russell,
making my first recording inside Adobe Audition. Now, I want to maybe
delete that long gap there. I can do that by selecting
again with my cursor and delete really, really easy. I can also top and tail this by selecting just the audio I want and hitting Control or
Command on a Mac and T, and there is my audio. Now, I might want to use some
basic voice effects on this. Let's keep it very simple,
over here in our Effects Rack, I can go ahead and add
on different things. Now I'm gonna set this to default. There should be nothing in here by default and I might go ahead and add some Amplitude
and Compression, Dynamics. This is a big effect. I always set things to
default before I start. Compressor on and turn the ratio up. That's all I'm going to do. Maybe turn up the MakeUp
gain and then apply it and you'll see, I get
nicely compressed audio, everything at the same level. That's how you apply your first effect. Hello, this is Mike Russell, making my first recording
inside Adobe Audition. If I then want to make that louder again, Favorites, Normalized to -3, hello, this is Mike
Russell, making my first, watch the level meters,
try not to get too close to these red lights here and
you're doing really well. Finally, let's finish up this how to use Adobe Audition tutorial with a little bit of multitrack It allows us to mix
together multiple clips and to do it we click from
Waveform over to Multitrack. We give it a name. Let's call it Mike for simplicity and bring in that voice there. That's going on to track one. I can place it wherever
I want on track one. Then I'll go to my Media Browser which allows me to browse my hard disk. This is my hard disk here and I can bring in anything I want. Right now I'm in a production library that I use at Music Radio Creative, where I can get sound effects. So I can actually go ahead
and bring a breaker in here and I can actually hear that breaker before I use it because
I've got auto play on. I suggest you do the same. So whenever you click
something, it previews it. So, let's bring this in on track two and this in on track
three, and then we'll zoom by selecting the time bar up
here, moving the scroll wheel and then we just grab the title of a track and move it by left
clicking, popping that there, maybe popping this here. We can then highlight and make a cut, delete and move the rest of my speech out and we've created our
first multi-track mix, Hello, this is Mike Russell
making my first recording inside Adobe Audition, pretty cool, those
effects are pretty loud. If I want, I can move this
effect up onto track two. It doesn't need to be on a separate track. Hold down Shift, move it
up, it stays locked in time. Let go of Shift, it
goes all over the place. Hold Shift down and it's good. So if I wanna turn those effects down, just take the volume knob
over here, turn it down a bit, hello, this is Mike Russell
making my first recording inside Adobe Audition,
perfect, I'm happy with that. I wanna save it as an audio file, Multitrack, Mixdown, Entire
Session, there it is. Trim it down by selecting the
whole audio I want to keep, Control or Command + T,
hello, this is Mike Russell. There's my mixed wave form
and then to save it out, File, Save As, choose my audio of choice, whether it's Wave, MP3 or all of these other
wonderful formats as well and we'll call this,
yeah, Mike mixed down, makes sense, doesn't it? Click Okay and that file is now saved to my hard disk for sharing
or uploading as I see fit. I hope you've enjoyed my how to use Adobe Audition
introduction tutorial. If you wanna see more
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