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It’s a rude cut off point, not permitting anything to go past a certain point.Īdd a Hard Limiter to the Master track by clicking the Master track in the timeline and using the triangle dropdown menu as seen above, also under AMPLITUDE AND COMPRESSION. The Limiter is another form of compression, but is very severe. Play with the settings and see what works for each track. Like EQ, compressors can be subjective, too, but the goal here is to make it not noticeable. Get them both living in the yellow-red as you read your audio meters. Since a compressor pulls down the loudest parts of the signal (the start of a sentence for example), you’re able to boost the quieter end of a sentence (when we trail off) and not worry about the louder start of the sentence going past 0dB. In these tutorial files, Mike’s audio came in quieter than Justin’s, so he should probably get more Output Gain here to make up that difference.

Output Gain: this will boost the overall signal of the track.

These settings will adjust how gradually a compressor works leading up to the loud signal (attack) and how it gradually turns the compressor off afterwards (release).

Attack and Release are ways to smooth this compression’s affect, to make it not seem so sudden.

Play with this to see the effects of higher compression ratios. 6dB louder would be pushed down to 2dB, and so on. This means for every 3dB louder a signal comes in above the threshold, it would be reduced to 1dB. Mike mentions using a 3×1 ratio for his podcasts.

Ratio: The higher the ratio the more severe the compression, or in the cowboy example, how strong the cowboy will lasso that sound back down to the threshold.

Think of it like a cowboy lassoing back anything louder than the threshold, “Hey you, Loud Noise/Word/Sound! Get back down here!” Anything quieter than this dB will be unaffected, anything louder than it will have the compressor applied.

Threshold: at what volume will the compressor engage? This is a line in the sand.

Let’s add a Single– Band Compressor to Justin’s track under AMPLITUDE AND COMPRESSION. Naturally we start sentences louder than we end them, for example. Now add the same 10 Band EQ to Mike and repeat.Ī compressor is a way to adjust the dynamic between the quietest someone speaks compared to the loudest they speak. For Justin, I ended up with something like you see in the above image. The goal here is “to make them sound like themselves” as Mike puts it. Fiddle around with each band and find what helps and what hurts. I also like to kill the highest frequency here, as human voices don’t tend to live up here, but high-pitched noise might have snuck in, so let’s take that down too.Īs for the rest – these depend on the speaker and the recording, and can be subjective.

This will knock out any low rumbling noise that might have crept in the recording.

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If you want some tips on how to EQ voices, go ahead and listen to Mike share his effects process in the sample files, around the 20-minute mark, or on the MP3 of the episode here: Podcasting with Justin Edwards. I’ll mirror his suggestions here. Click the triangle for the dropdown, and go through FILTER AND EQ and add the 10 Bands Graphic Equalizer. Let’s start with Justin track (Track 1, which I’ve renamed HOST in my project). To choose an effect, use the triangles to open a dropdown menu. This comes into play for instance when you consider: Do I want to compress my EQ’d track, or EQ my compressed track? For podcasting it may not make a major difference, but keep it in mind if you start piling on effects: ORDER MATTERS. There are a list of numbers on the left which you can use to assign effects, keeping in mind that effects work in a hierarchical manner, a.k.a.: the effect on #1 will be applied to the track first, and an effect on #2 will be applied to the track after #1 has been applied, and so on. You should see which track you are affecting in the Effects Rack named after Track: (below Presets) To assign effects to a particular track, make sure you have the track selected by clicking on it in the timeline. Links to these files are here:ĭownload these and import them into Audition using FILE > IMPORT > FILE or the shortcut Command-I if you want to follow along.Īdding effects to tracks in Audition takes place in the Effects Rack.

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* – If you missed our Audition basics tutorial, you can find it here: Download Tutorial Sample Filesįor this tutorial I am going to be working with the same sample files from our first lesson. Let’s continue our Audition tutorial* by learning about three handy effects that can sweeten your audio and get your mix sounding professional and polished – EQ, Compressor, and Limiter.

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