In this video, Cinema Sound Main Presenter Mark Edward Lewis continues with Adobe Audition How To videos and describes how to use the built in Audition plugi. Adobe Audition Telephone Effect. Get Adobe Audition – support these Learn Adobe Audition – take my full course!Telephone effect for Adobe Audition from Mike Russell of. You can use an EQ for this, or you can use frequency filters like the one in the picture in Adobe Audition called an FFT filter. FFT stands for Fast Fourier Transform, which you can learn more about here - In the Adobe Audition FFT filter, the preset is called 'OnHold 400-4K,' the 'on-hold' part being a reference to being on the phone.
Noise reduction & restoration
De noise:
simple just move the slider to 0-100% to reduce amount of sound.
Enable output Noise only: listen only the noise level useful to cut the noise.
Then apply gain to get actual value from reduced lower sound.
Pros: simple just like noise reduction technique in other softwares like audacity.
Adaptive noise reduction: (more parameters)
standard noise reduction only for post processing, not for live processing, so adaptive noise reduction must for live podacasts or streaming games.
Note: it’s realtime processing so need little bit extra cpu power otherwise delay due to heavy processing.
Reduce Noise By: 6-30db better, 20db by default,
Just it substract the noise. (you can monitor it while adjusting)
Noiseness: it’s indicates amount of noise in original audio.(so we can reduce accordingly)
Fine tune noise floor: manually adjusting it above or below the automatically calculated noise floor.
Signal threshold: manually adjusting desried audio level above or below the automatically calculated threshold.
Special decay rate: how quickly drops to 60db
Baseband preservation:
Saving frequency of vocals helps to boost audio quality. (Need to know about equalization)
FFT SIZE: length of frequency band. Or how many individual frequency bands are analyzed.
Processing focus:
High frequency focus
Mid frequency focus
- Techniques for restoring audio
- Sound Remover effect
- Automatic Click Remover effect
- Click/Pop Eliminator effect
- DeReverb effect
- Hiss Reduction effect (Waveform Editor only)
Fliter and Equalizer
FFT Filter Effect:
Fast Fourier Transform an algorithm quickly analyzes frequency and amplitude of sound wave.
High pass filter(HP): Passes the high frequency and cuts the lower frequencies.
Low pass filter(LP): passes the lower frequency and cuts the higher frequencies.
Narrow band pass filter/ telephony : 350-4000hz here only the vocals of human to avoid background noise. Telephone uses this spectrum.
Notch filter: to remove precise frequency low 60hz, monitor it just up& down , find a noise in a specific range, then use notch filter and drag drop to remove entire sound.
Tradeoff between frequency and time accuracy.
Lower reduced transient artifacts
Parametric Equalizer in Adobe audition
Q/width: controls width of the effected frequency,
High q value effects low range frequencies (ex 100hz)
Q value which is a ratio of width to center frequency
Amplitude & compression AU
Noise gate effect: stops the noise below noise threshold (ex threshold,-30db then it only passes above threshold db like -29 )
Expander: just like compressor, but it compress the lower noise ex: threshold -30 db compress ratio 1:2
Then 30db becomes 15db if ratio 1:10 30-3db= 27db.
compressor: compress the above limit threshold .
Then compressor threshold limit is -10
attack time: wait before compressing after reaching threshold
Fft Filter Audition
Ratio = 1:2 , before total db level to -1db. Now it’s -5db.
Because it’s compressed remaining 10db into 1:2 ratio means half then 10 becomes 5.
Gain: after compressing the noise level reduces we can apply some gain to -6,-3 or -1 db.
Normalisation: boosting lower level audio signals upto peak level audio signal.(make sure to completely reduce background noise)
Ex: audio track has -15 db , and -10db – 6-db -3db.
When we apply normalisation . All audio singals gained to upto -3db it’s a peak in audio track.
Before applying normalisation make sure to cut excessive wave lengh. So the audio track is innsame wavelength.
Presets: -1db more than -1db or 0 distortion or in bearble sound.
-6 mostly use for voiceovers
-10db some people use it for quite voice but not recommended.
Equalization: plays vital role to remove unnecessary noise based on frequency.
attack & release time
Determines how many milliseconds it takes for the output signal to reach the specified level
(to avoid unnecessary processing at short sudden changes )
Determines how many milliseconds the current output level is maintained
To see good attack and release times for different types of audio content, choose various options from the Presets menu.
Fast attack & release time for drums, music instruments.
You can know by just doing post processing audio. To see how much time the audio at peak level.(it’s a art)
Hold time:
Dynamic processing
Level meter & gain reduction meter:
This works by compressing lower & higher audio signals. To maintain a level.
(Noise reduction done by expander, loudness reduced by compressor, also added bandwidth/frequency specific processing)
Dynamic effects:
Compressor: reducing peak voice with certain ratio
Expander: reducing lower threshold with certain ratio
Limiter: totally reducing noise level for a specific threshold.
Hard limiter effect:
Maximum amplitude:
Input boost: before cutting the audio, we pre amplify the audio to avoid audio clipping.
Look ahead time/ attack time: time to wait
Determines how quickly starts
Release time: time to release back to normal.
Determines how quickly compression stops after reaching normal.
Multiband compressor effect
just like parametric Equalizer it’s also a good & advanced effect to process audio frequently.
Main: compressing at band or frequency specific.
3 bands
Mid: 2k
5bands (not a scientific values)
Low mid: 100-500
High mid 2k to 10k
(select bands by either manually entering frequencies or presets and edit later)
Vocal frequencies at 80hz to 10k
Voice Fundamentals falls beween 80-300hz
bypass: ignore the band
Input level meter:
gain: 4db (boost or cut +4db or -4db)
attack: 10ms
speech volume leveler effect
compression effect that optimizes dialogue, evening out levels and removing background noise.
Target volume level (db):
Low settings: amplify speech slightly without boosting the noise floor.
High settings: amplifys entire signal as it drops to close the noise floor
Boost low signals: shorter & low volume passages (for most speech content, skip this for smooth audio)
Minimizes background noise while amplifying and leveling speech content.
ex: -45db to -60db
Fft Filter Audition
higher: upper -85db greater background noise but lower amplitude & leveling.
lower: (down -30db) higher amplitude & leveling but background noise also boosts.
Advanced settings:
compressor : maintains strong signal by gain if processed signal falls .
Adobe audition ideal effects for live streaming & podcast
virtual audio cable or (voice meter banana ,fl studio)
sound card to audition >> virtual cable inout device>>obs.
adobe audition effects:
Noisegate if through vst plugins (optional).
enable high pass filter: to remove background noises
Use presets: like vocal enhancer or cusomize and save as preset.
Tip: vocal frequency 100hz – 10k even lower 400-4000hz
Denoise simple: just reducing amount of noise by 0-100%
still not reduced , windows>>sound settings>> input device level (dercrease) input device boost(reduce)
if mixer& interface: reduce gain.
Adaptive noise.
automatically adjusts between ranges dynamicai, unlike static denoise.
Multiband compressor:
if you unfamiliar with multiband just use tube modelled compressor
we its reduces above threshold in a certain ratio.
More than -1db unbearable sound.
Fft Bandpass Filter
speech leveler (option)
it has gain & compression & noise suppression techniques so use it after equalizer (to get best results)
Avoid over processing.(just focus on audible sound at beginning)
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Use signal processors to “sweeten” the audio in multiple ways: fix tonal balance, alter dynamics, add ambience or special effects, and much more. Draw from the extensive collection of effects included in Audition, or use third-party, plug-in processors.
Effects basics
Effects, also called signal processors, can “sweeten” audio as well as fix problems (such as too much treble or bass). They are the audio equivalent of video effects, like contrast, sharpen, color balance, light rays, pixelate, and so on. In fact, sometimes audio engineers even use similar terms, like “brightness,” to describe increased treble.
Adobe Audition includes a wide range of effects. Most can work with the Waveform and Multitrack Editors, but some are available only in the Waveform Editor. There are three main ways of working with effects, which are available in the Waveform and Multitrack Editors:
- The Effects Rack allows you to create a chain of up to 16 effects, which you can enable or disable independently. You can add, delete, replace, or reorder effects. The Effects Rack is the most flexible way of working with effects.
- The Effects menu allows you to select an individual effect from the Effects menu bar and apply it to whatever audio is selected. When you need to apply only one specific effect, using this menu is quicker than using the Effects Rack. Some effects available in the Effects menu are not available in the Effects Rack.
- The Favorites menu provides a very quick way to work with effects. If you come up with a particularly useful effects setting, you can save it as a Favorite preset. The preset is then added to a list of Favorites, which you can access with the Favorites menu or the more flexible Favorites panel (as described in Chapter 2, “The Audition Environment”). Selecting a Favorite applies that preset instantly to whatever audio is selected. Note that you cannot change any parameter values before applying the effect, but you can use the Preview Editor to see how the waveform will be altered by the effect prior to applying it.
This chapter initially covers using the Effects Rack, which introduces the majority of effects. The second section covers the Effects menu and discusses the remaining effects that are available only via the Effects menu. The final section describes how to work with presets, including Favorites.