The best Adobe Audition effects are often those that you create yourself using your ears. I reveal my best presets, vocal settings and give them away free!
I talk about the best Adobe Audition presets to use on radio sweepers, DJ drops and for podcast intros. Adobe Audition CC has been announced and will be available to download from 17th June 2013 onwards. The Adobe Creative Cloud announcement has been met with some controversy but I’m fully embracing the fact that my creativity is in the cloud and that I can start learning other Adobe software as part of my membership.
- Audition now offers an easy-to-use panel to access these voices to generate speech files for use in your recordings and multitrack projects. To get started, select Effects Generate Speech from the menu bar in either Waveform or Multitrack view.
- Venom Impression Voice Tutorial Adobe AuditionExplanation of the Venom voice impression: 1:12First set of effects with the most recent impression vid: 4:092n.
Adobe audition has a great inbuilt noise reduction tool. For most voice over artists that are starting out at their home environment noise reduction is super important and Audition fits their needs. I also love how Audition is so intuitive to use. It has fades that are simple to work with by simply dragging.
My Best Adobe Audition Effects
5. Mike Big and Wide
This is a great vocal effect for any voice that you’d like to stand out and sound stereo. The effect (or similar) has been used on many a radio ID not least because it sounds great on car stereo systems and helps to highlight a message. It’s a simple chorus effect with some of my own tweaks, compression and a little studio reverb for sparkle.
4. Mike EQ
I add some of my own custom EQ to voice overs, like my own, and other voice over artists that perform work for Music Radio Creative. I push up the high range frequencies to give a little sparkle to the voice. Some voice artists don’t need this process but in many cases sessions come in dry and need a little brightening up.
3. Mike Processing
This is not something I would apply in the waveform view of Adobe Audition rather the multitrack as it involves a number od different effects (including Dynamics Processing, Graphic Equalizer and Studio Reverb). A little wetness on the reverb adds a great sound to audio production although other radio imaging producers may argue that reverb is old fashioned and that you should knock out low and high frequencies on a voice over so that it cuts through anything – just like those fancy men’s razors you see advertised on TV!
2. Mike Echo
There are many echo presets in Adobe Audition some of which are really decent and others are not designed to be used on vocals. I have created my own custom echo that works great when you mix vocals with music and imaging sfx. Echo is great for when you end a radio jingle or DJ drop so that the radio station name or host name echoes away into a music track. Listen to some examples in the podcast audio.
1. Mike Compressor
There is a really cool multiband compressor integrated from iZotope into Adobe Audition CC but I find the native Audition ‘Dynamics Processing’ perfectly fine for compressing voice over sessions. It’s not too heavy and this is important especially if you’re going to compress the voice again when you drop it into the multitrack. The compression is simply a light 2:1 setting above -20dB but it makes a difference to raw voice sessions.
Free Adobe Audition Presets
I promised you an easy way to download all of the presets I’ve spoken about in the podcast and here it is! Get your free Adobe Audition presets.
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Integrate Adobe Audition into your post production workflow! Utilize Audition’s powerful tools for fixing common audio problems like background noise, hum, clipping, clicks and pops.
Adobe Audition can quickly clean up audio and fix problems that Premiere Pro cannot. In this post we cover common audio problems that you may encounter in your video editing and post production – and how to address these issues using the tools within Adobe Audition.
If you’re looking for tips on a Premiere Pro to Audition workflow, check out my previous posts on roundtripping your video editing clips and sequences into Audition and back to Premiere.
Noise Reduction in Audition
Adobe Audition has powerful noise reduction tools that be accessed in the Waveform Editor. If you are in a Multitrack Session, double click on a track to go into the Waveform Editor.
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Click and drag to select several seconds of background/ambient only sound. The more time you have to sample the better your results will be. Make sure you do not select any audio with voices or other noises!
Go to Effects > Noise Reduction (process). Click “Capture Noise Print” and then “Select Entire File”.
Click “Noise Only” to hear what you are removing (deselect it before you click apply). Click the green button on & off to toggle the effect as you adjust the “Noise Reduction” & “Reduce by” sliders.
If you prefer shortcuts, use Shift +P to save a noise print and CMD/CNTRL/Shift + P to open the “Noise Reduction” Effect. I suggest making shortcuts for effects you commonly use (do this by accessing the shortcut editor in the menu bar, Edit >Keyboard Shortcuts).
Adaptive Noise Reduction
Adaptive Noise Reduction automatically learns what noise is, as long as you have background noise before people start speaking. To take advantage of this tool, it is a good habit to always record 4-5 seconds of audio before your talent starts speaking.
In Adobe Audition, you can also combine Adaptive Noise Redution with other effects in the Effects Rack (which you can’t do with standard Noise Reduction). It is part of several presets like “Clean up and Level Voice-Over” that can help you get started if you are new to audio effects.
Remove Hum in Audition
This Adobe Audition effect comes in handy if you are doing a lot of location filming where you can’t control the production environment.
Use this to remove AC hum (lights, power lines, electronics). In my example I was picking up hum from an Xbox 360 in the room.
Go to Effects > Noise Reduction/Restoration > Dehummer. Select your preset based on country. I’m in the states so I picked 60Hz.
Auto Heal & Spot Healing
You can use Auto Heal & the Spot Healing Brush to remove clicks, pops, and other short noises you want to remove from your audio.
Zoom in by pressing the plus key and select the pop. Right click and select “Auto Heal” (Comm/Control + U).
You can also paint a selection with the spot healing brush(B) by dragging over the area to fix in the “Spectral Frequency” display.
Using the Diagnostic Panel
Access the Diagnostics panel in Audition by choosing Window > Diagnostics from the menu bar. The powerful diagnostic panel provides tools to fix clipping, clicks and pops in your audio.
The Declipper is handy for repairing clipped audio. Select the DeClipper Effect in the Diagnostic panel. Click Scan and your clipping areas will be listed. Select a listed problem to move to it in the waveform.
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You can fix each one at a time or click Repair All.
Note: Depending on your audio it may still appear clipped, as Audition works in 32 bit floating point. Decrease the amplitude or use Normalize to see that the audio isn’t actually clipped. I have had varied results with the DeClicker, so if it dozen’t fix your issues, you the manual method mentioned above using Auto Heal & Spot Healing Brush.
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Utilize a Premiere to Audition workflow to take advantage of these great audio tools in your video editing projects. For more details on working with audio in Adobe Audition see Adobe Help.