Make Your Audio and Voice Sound Better – Audition CC Tutorial

well they everybody my name is Nathaniel Dodds from a Dutch vidcom welcome into this Adobe Audition tutorial where we're gonna talk about making your voice and just generally making your audio sound better using Adobe Audition it's pretty simple it's pretty straightforward but I think you're really gonna find it useful and helpful and all sorts of other things if you at all record your voice or use one of these things called a microphone this by the way is the road procaster it's an amazing little microphone I love it very much if you don't enjoy this tutorial make sure you subscribe to my channel so you never miss any other audio or video editing tutorials in the future let's jump into audition now and check this thing out for the first time in the history of this channel starting out a tutorial in Adobe Audition I've got a little voice over recording of myself that we can use to walk through the workflow I currently use to clean up and make my audio sound better and cleaner here check this out a little before and after the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried so I'll open the audio file that I want to work on I've got a couple of takes here in this audio file and I happen to know that the first take is not the right one it's not the one that I want I'm interested in this audio over here on the right side of my audio waveform I'm gonna drag a selection over it while making sure to leave a few seconds of extra time at the beginning this is so I have a sound floor that I can use for reducing background noise a little bit later with this chunk of audio selected I'm gonna hit command or ctrl T to perform a crop which will dump all the other audio in here and allow me to work on the bit that I want to keep now the general process that I almost always follow and some of these steps are applicable at all times and some of them it's just you'll kind of learn what to do and when to do it the more you work with this stuff but the general process that I almost always follow is light noise reduction initially normalize the audio to boost the levels light noise reduction again only if needed then I'll compress the audio just to flatten out huge Peaks and control the quiet bits a little equalize and then normalize again and then if need be after all of that apply a hard limiter just to control the overall levels and produce a finished sounding piece of audio now before we get doing the actual audio editing something cool that we're going to do and come back to at the end of this video will be how to apply this audio transformation in literally seconds so that's gonna require us creating what's called a favorite so before we apply anything to this audio clip hang with me here and go favorites and choose to start recording favorite and then hit OK to begin the recording now everything you do from here on in Adobe Audition is going to be recorded so you may need to do a couple takes of this that's fine when you feel comfortable going through all these effects record your own favorite I'm just telling you now so if you get through it you don't have to sort of rewatch the entire tutorial later I'm gonna drag a selection over the very first few seconds where we aren't speaking into the microphone but the mic has captured all that sort of nasty crunchy background noise that we want to get rid of and then I'm gonna go effects noise reduction capture noise print and go effect select all to select all my audio and then go back to effects noise reduction and choose the noise reduction process now in here I like to set noise reduction to about 50% for more of a subtle effect I absolutely don't want anything extreme and then I'll set reduce by to something around 10 DBS I'll also drag the points on the blue line here and there to help pull all the particles together a little bit we can listen to a preview before and after here the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried now because there's so little background noise in this audio as it stands it's gonna be really hard to hear a huge difference at this point but we at least will be able to hear if we're really messing up our own audio with the way this effect fades in and out the goal here is don't mess up your audio but still reduce a little bit of that background noise you can always reduce the power of this effect by lowering the noise reduction and reduce numbers if the effect is making your audio sound kind of wacky alright so next we're going to go effects amplitude and compression and choose to normalize this I'm gonna choose to normalize this to negative 6 decibels now negative 3 is usually a good place to have your sound levels sometimes broadcast TV generally speaking dialog is anywhere from negative 6 to negative 12 DB s so negative 3 is great for like online web stuff where you're kind of you know you're very loud you're definitely not clipping but you have good room in your audio but it's still it's not really a problem to have it down at negative 6 or even 8 or 10 dB just negative 3 is generally a good place to have your sound levels just make sure you don't have some spike that blows out your audio and Clips everything I'm just normalizing this to negative 6 DB because we still have some processing to do this is just to boost things up for now now here's where we'll check on the quieter areas of some of the audio and just see if we need more noise reduction mine here sounds like it could use a little tiny bit more so I'm gonna add a little bit more using that same exact method that I used before but again I want to be very careful that I don't destroy my audio here I'll try to be careful with this additional annoys a reduction here alright next I'll move on to the compression stage so compression is where we tell the peaks the louder bits just to chill out a little bit let the whole recording work together a little bit more uniformly reduce the loud stuff and that's gonna make the quieter stuff sound like it's boosted a little bit everything is gonna be sort of flattened out a little so we'll go effects amplitude and compression and we'll choose the very simple single band compressor I say that half jokingly because it still is a little difficult to understand but it's not quite as crazy as the multiband compressor and in here we want to target all the audio above the negative 12 decibel mark for this particular clip you can see out here using my scale I can see that if I just have these wayward Peaks and stuff shooting up past negative 12 dB if I can calm that stuff down while retaining the levels of the quieter stuff I can really compress the overall range that this Audio covers quite a bit I'm also going to compress using the four to one ratio that basically means that any audio above the negative 12 DB mark anything louder than negative 12 beat 12 DBS on my scale it will end up being 1/4 or a quarter of its original volume now when we apply this effect notice how the center core audio remains largely untouched while those bigger spikes well they could push down a little bit now a side note this also means that if we now go and normalized a negative 3 DBS much more of that quieter stuff can be boosted because we don't have a few tall Peaks running into the negative 3 dB and stopping everything else at its lower level from being lifted up but we'll do that stuff later for now let's add some zest by running a little EQ on our audio so go effects filter and EQ and choose the parametric equalizer and here I'm gonna choose the loudness Maximizer preset it sounds super crazy and aggressive but don't worry we just want to do it to use the points that are in here in fact I like to add a third point we can just click the number-2 button here I'll start playing the audio in the background as I perform changes just so I can hear in real-time what I'm doing I'll drag the L mark up a little bit to boost some of the deeper tones then the beginner has even tried and also boost the treble by pushing the H point upward a little bit as well be careful that you don't go too high over here though you can end up adding this painful to listen to snapping crispy crackling sound which is especially uncomfortable for those of us that wear headphones more times than the beginner has even tried I'll also grab this new point sort of in the middle and try to reduce some of the mid levels a little bit the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried again this is all going to be touch and feel depending on your voice the quality of your recording maybe the mic you're using the environment you're in there's a lot that goes into this so just really listen to your audio and figure out what works for you the basic formula that I like to follow though is almost create a little bit of this there flat v-shape where I boost the lows boost the highs and reduce the mids just a little bit the master has failed more times alright so we'll apply the EQ when I like what I've got and then I'm going to normalize again so I'm gonna go effects amplitude and compression normalized and now I'm going to normalize to negative 3 dB and this is going to complete what I like to do with my audio so after this remember we recorded that favorite so we'll go favourites and choose stop recording favorite and I'm gonna name this I don't know my audio processing or something like that and then I'm gonna go edit keyboard shortcuts and this is where it gets really cool and we can run a search for my audio and it's gonna find that and favorite that we just created because it shows up in one of the menus and I'm gonna assign the hotkey really gonna sign anything I'm just gonna throw the hotkey a on it right now I'll apply all those changes and then we can use our little history panel down here to get back to before we applied anything to this audio clip any of those effects we can simply select the audio and then hit the letter A and watch audition apply everything to this clip easy peasy just the way I like it now just a quick end note here if you're dealing with audio that has like extreme peaks and very quiet valleys maybe you were talking and then screaming or something happen that made your audio peak really hardcore in a specific area that one peak will prevent the first normalizer we ran from boosting everything quite as much as you would like it to and in some cases it can even reduce the overall volume of your audio depending on just how high that spike of audio went in cases like that read all of your audios maybe one level and you have one area of extreme Peaks look first at applying some dynamics processing and limit the audio using something like the broadcast delimiter and maybe drag those first two points down to two wherever it wherever works kind of where the the bulk of the peaks in your audio already are and commit that change and this will help bring the levels down to a decibel level where the bulk of your audio Peaks are just as we kind of scripted it this will essentially trim off that massive peak and allow you to normalize everything in a way that will actually boost audio levels uniformly in fact in a lot of cases using a limiter before even applying a normalized effect can be very helpful if you have any kind of varying levels in your audio for the most part I'm sitting here in studio in front of the same microphone in a very controlled environment where I'm not moving around so it's not something I'm SuperDuper concerned about that being said it might be a good idea for me to think about applying a limiter or this dynamics processing which is essentially a limiter to my audio first and of course before I let you go you can see how this is really trimming the audio way down so what I'll probably do because we're limited at negative twelve we probably want to boost ourselves back up to negative six so this would be another instance where we would go effects amplitude and compression and choose to normalize once again and this time we'll normalize this bad boy at negative 6 dB and you'll see it's gonna stretch us out again and now when we preview this we should be sounding pretty good the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried so it can be a very helpful tool to have in certain situations when you need to have your audio levels on lockdown so that will about wrap this one up folks thank you so much for hanging out with me and check-in this thing out I really hope you enjoyed it for using the normalizer and EQ and some compression and all the other stuff that we covered here in Adobe Audition that's it get it got it good Nathaniel Dodson Tuck vidcom I'll catch you in the next one and before you go make sure you subscribe to my channel for more great tutorials every day also by my course it helps us do what we do and 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Length: 11min 58sec (718 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 27 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/IMissWinning]

This is a pretty fucking horrible tutorial. His audio sounds really bad.