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How to change playback speed in Adobe Audition during editing

Here's a video that goes through how to speed it up without affecting the pitch. Here are the steps: Enable Global Clip Stretching Select All tracks Drag the ...
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How to balance channel volume in Adobe Audition?

There are several ways to do this. Simple answer: You can edit each channel separately. When the wave-form is selected, you can hit the up arrow key or down arrow key to change the selection to left ...
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How do I turn ordinary speech into something inaudible, in Adobe Audition? So it sounds a bit like mumble

Conversation can become indistinct due to several reasons: It's quiet There's much reflected sound (reverb) in the room There are many voices talking at once It's masked by a louder noise Experiment ...
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How do I turn ordinary speech into something inaudible, in Adobe Audition? So it sounds a bit like mumble

I think that comprehensible speech consists of vowels and consonants put in some order. Killing one of the two will make something incomprehensible. I would try to kill consonants to be more exact, ...
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How to restore a high pitch voice recorded from a tape cassette?

So what you're attempting to do, is restore the pitch (i.e. "speed") of the recording. The reason it didn't work is that you used a timestretching algorithm instead, which leads to an ...
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Is there any way to subtract or cancel background music picked up from a microphone, if I have the isolated background music?

My short answer would be that it is virtually impossible but depends on how good results you expect. The solution your intuition draws you to, and which would work in certain cases, is phase ...
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In Adobe Audition - can I see post-effect waveforms?

You can't do this in the multi-track section of Audition, but you can in the waveform editor if you turn on the preview editor in the view menu. Not quite what you're after, but still a very ...
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Is there any way to subtract or cancel background music picked up from a microphone, if I have the isolated background music?

i know this is an ancient thread, but it still shows up in search results! Pretty silly for the top reply to be "nope sorry can't be done". Depending on where the speaker's microphone was, ...
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How to blend vocals into music using Adobe Audition

You question is actually a pretty relevant and meaningful one. In order to blend vocals with muse you should apply a couple of principles: mix every siingle parameter of the music in quite a ...
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How to automatically adjust all pieces of a voice to a certain decibel in adobe audition?

The way to approach this is to use a fairly standard audio processing toolchain which contains a compressor and limiter. The toolchain will normally sit like this: EQ >> DYNAMICS >> LIMITER The ...
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How do I shift the frequency of a track by x Hz?

Binaural Beats is a psychoacoustic phenomenon that occurs between 2 frequencies as perceived in a binaural space. To contrast - in a piece of music, you are listening to not only infinite number of ...
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Theater Sound Design Audio Editing Software

If you're in some kind of educational environment, college etc, then use what everybody else uses, or what the teacher/lecturer uses. That way you're only learning sound design, not also an entirely ...
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Eliminating taking of breath

Following @Tetsujin, there are a few plugins I've heard of: Waves DeBreath iZotope Breath Control Maybe even more?! Anyway, they should do the job quite well. A gate can help as well, but it is ...
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Audition cc bus not receiving input

Never mind I solved it. The trick is to make sure that audition isn't re-routing the bus to the master track and that correct audio tracks are routing sends to the correct bus, located on top of the ...
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Why does Adobe Audition compute the effects that are disabled?

Yes. There is a very good reason why DAW's do this. Specifically, the DAW will always take into account channel latency across all tracks currently active in the DAW whether the inserted plugins are ...
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Adobe Audition: How to turn point-in-time modifications of effects rack off?

I had to disable the automation. I accidentally enabled it ("Touch"), but have to set it to "Off":
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Any ideas on copying this voice effect?

In the three clips you call out, the only effect I hear is a slight reverse reverb or pre-echo. In your audio editor, select the audio you want to process and reverse it so it plays backwards. Then ...
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One clip becomes louder when merging clips in Adobe Audition

Here's what I think is happening: The clip that shows louder after merging is louder before merging. With only your screen grabs to go on, it looks like the individual files are rendering and image of ...
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How to record high quality vocal with Adobe audition

Without more specific information I can only offer you a generalised suggestion: A good microphone goes a long way to getting an accurate recording but that doesn't always mean it sounds good or fits ...
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Replace sections that have low volume with silence in Adobe Audition

I don't know Audition, but most DAWs come with a noise gate. Use one with a filter to more accurately hone in on the right frequencies. Alternatively, for something much 'smarter' you could use ...
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Normalize sound by average peak

So here is how I solved this - thanks to Mark, for pointing me in the right direction. In Audition, in "Window", enable "Amplitude Statistics" window. Then select the entire clip, ...
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Why does exporting a file in adobe audition reduce the desired length?

I think that you possibly have set up a project in Audition at the wrong sampling rate. Make sure that you are fully aware of the sampling rate of all the audio you are using and that the project ...
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Adobe Audition - auto adjust amplitude

The best way to approach this is to use a 'dynamics' processor, such as a 'compressor'. This can be configured to take sounds that exhibit energy over a certain threshold and reduce the overall level ...
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How to choose the latency for the audio hardware in Adobe Audition?

latency depends on a number of things, but primarily it is determined by your audio hardware driver buffer size. As you increase your buffer size, you do a couple of things: 1 reduce overall CPU ...
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Do I lose any quality when trimming an MP3 with Adobe Audition?

Yes, you ALWAYS lose quality when open a file created with lossy compression (i.e. virtually all flavors of MP3) It may not be very much, but it is unavoidable. That is why it is called "lossy". ...
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Both sound good - how to pick?

You can measure distortion, especially at the edge of the useful envelope (ie see which one distorts first as you increase the volume of noises you want to record) or sensitivity (does one pick up ...
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Understanding how ffmpeg's silenceremove filter correlates to Adobe Audition

I've never used ffmpeg like this, but I had a quick squint at the filter docs, specifically the silenceremover and straight away I noticed the detection system defaults to RMS. Maybe this is where the ...
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Minion Voice in Adobe Audition

A bit of pitch I guess, the rest is acting an a strange language.
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How do I shift the frequency of a track by x Hz?

The Adobe Audition Pitch Shifter, Pitch Bender or Stretch and Pitch effects will not let you shift all notes in your audio track by 5.5Hz. Instead, it allows you to shift in tonal increments, such as ...
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How to apply an effect only during specific spans of time in a track?

If you're looking for a quick way to process the whole VO track to attenuate these sibilance sounds, the most simple way is to check where these sounds are most prominent in the upper frequency ...
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