Adobe Audition 2.0 problem
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Posted on Aug 14, 2006 11:03 am
mclir9
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Member Since: Aug 13, 2006
I am a new user of Adobe Audition 2.0, but I am very familiar with CEP 2.1. I am recording some drums and a guitar on 2 different tracks. I started recording and screwed up right away, so I stopped and went back to the beginning, and started recording again. I then got half way thru the song, screwed up, stopped, found a nice place to pick-up where I left off and pressed record and finished off the song. Now, each time I started over and cut-in within the Middle of the song Audition created a WAV file for each instance. So now I have on my files side bar Guitar_1, Guitar_2, Guitar_3, Guitar_4 and Guitar_5, because I pressed stop and record 5 different times, but all for the same Track. CEP didn't do this... it just would do 1 WAV and not multiple WAV's for every time you hit stop and record. How do I make Audition work like CEP if possible?? I don't like all of the WAV's especially because in Edit mode, there isn't 1 WAV file to Edit, you have to search each WAV and EDIT it Individually which means it left me editing 5 Guitar WAV files, even though in Multi-track Mode the entire Track is 1 big track with each stop/record being marked out with a description of which WAV it is associated with. Hopefully someone knows what I am talking about it is very hard to explain. Is there a way to Merge the WAV's into 1 Big Wav for editing purposes?? Is there a setting in Audition to make it behave like it's relative CEP 2.1?? I can't stand it that if I don't get the recording done the first time all the way through, Audition creates a second WAV and you have no control over it.
Thanks.
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BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
Since: Feb 07, 2005
Aug 14, 2006 11:36 am Hi mclir9,
I know exactly what you are talking about. One of the main differences with AA 2.0 and CEP is that AA 2.0 writes directly to disk. This is actually a great feature as you don't have to save your files at the end of your session which can take a lot of time (and you won't loose your files if you crash). If I understand you correctly, the best thing to do would be to bounce your track that has all the separate wav's into a new single track. As far as I know there is no way to change AA to emulate CEP.
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Aug 14, 2006 11:40 am I believe you are correct BH, although it's a pain to get used to (and for cleanup of the HDD) it makes things easier and safer overall. So yeah, bouncing is the only solution I've found, I've only used it for about 3 months though. I have other complaints too, but nothing that was worse than saving after rec in the older versions.
mclir9www.witchsmark.comMember
Since: Aug 13, 2006
Aug 14, 2006 01:10 pm Awesome, thanks for such a quick response. Also, after recording all the Tracks and I am ready to set levels for mixdown, is there an easy way to do this?? Right now I am recording using the 32bit and keeping peak levels around -12Db. Is Hard Limiting all of the tracks and then Group Normalizing them an effective way to get all of the tracks at their loudest, yet without clipping as a whole?? Anyone have any good ideas how to get the Mixdown its loudest yet clearest, no clipping?? Thanks.
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Aug 14, 2006 01:25 pm Well, I'm no pro, but hard limiting and group normalizing would be a really bad thing I'm thinking. It would suck much of the life from the tracks.
Although I may compress/limit certain tracks if required I usually try to avoid it. Make sure your loudest instrument doesn't clip and then mix the others in from there (bringing down main volume if needed. Maximizing the end result volume would be done much later after you have exported a mixdown.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Aug 14, 2006 01:35 pm I used the khearjus (sp?) classic series for compression and limiting.
May not be the best, but sounds pretty darn good to me. A bunch of others here us it as well.
I look at the mixdown and the volume stages as two very separate events.
I'd mix for sonic content only, disregarding the main volume. Once the mix is just how I like, I then do a mixdown to create a stereo track.
I then drop all individual tracks, and open the stereo mixdown track. I then put a compressor on the stereo track itself, and a master limiter on the master bus. I then tweak the two, to get the beefy-ness and volume (output gain) up with the compressor, but not too much to kill dynamics, plus getting the master limiter set so there's enough volume boost, but again, not too much squashing of dynamics.
Seems to work pretty well for me. My mixes have been very close volume-wise to other production stuff, so I'm pretty happy.
mclir9www.witchsmark.comMember
Since: Aug 13, 2006
Aug 15, 2006 07:49 am I did a search for the Khearjus program you are talking about in Google and came up with this forum mentioning it and thats it. Can someone give me a link to this program??
