This week, we take a look at the first entry in the ‘restoration’ sub-menu of the effects menu… the Adaptive Noise Reduction tool.

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This week, a quick follow up clarification on something I mentioned in ep#136 regarding the ‘order’ of filters. Thanks to Jim Weishorn for pointing out the ambiguity (or error) of my comments. Then Ron Tostevin asked about purchasing a second-hand Mackie Control Universal off EBay now that the prices of same have come down so much. Also, [...]

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This week, Karl Cooper wrote to say how much he enjoyed the episode on parametric eq, and to ask about whether I could knock up a special ‘voice processing’ episode. Also, the all new audio2u.com forum is up and running. Go register now! And then, it’s on to a thorough investigation of the Scientific Filters.

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This week, a couple of listener e-mails answered. For those wanting to hack into their registry for import/export of keyboard shortcuts, the address you’re looking for is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Audition\3.0\Prefs\Keys\en_US\ For anyone wanting to learn more about Mastering, Brad Blackwood’s forum is here. Then, a quick look at the Quick Filter.

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This week, we look at the parametric equalizer.

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This week, we look at the notch filter. The waveform view of our sample audio The spectral view of our sample audio. Note the pink line running horizontally across the display between 5kHz and 6kHz The spectral view of our sample audio, zoomed on the vertical scale Here we can see that the offending tone is actually around 5700Hz Spectral [...]

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This week, Michael Rooney has finished his new program, AATranslator, which will the allow the import of various other DAW session formats into Audition. Then, we look at the next item in the ‘Filters and EQ’ section… the graphic EQ. The graphic EQ in 10 band mode. Each filter covers an octave. The graphic EQ in 20 band [...]

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In episode 131, we look at the FFT filter. From the help file: “(Fast Fourier Transform) An algorithm based on Fourier Theory that Adobe Audition uses for filtering, Spectral View, and Frequency Analysis features. Fourier Theory states that any waveform consists of an infinite sum of sine and cosine functions, allowing frequency and amplitude to be quickly [...]

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This week, we move on to the ‘filter and eq’ section of the effects menu. First cab off the rank… dynamic eq.

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Finally! BTP is back for 2009. In this episode, we continue from where we left off with the last 3 entries in the “Delay and echo” sub-menu of the effects menu. Also, Michael Rooney has been slaving away over a hot text editor, cranking out utilities for use with Audition. Check out the Audition FX Management utility, and [...]

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As promised, here’s a short video tour (approx 7.5MB, MPEG4) of my new mixing and editing space. This is also where I record my podcast voice tracks. However, I have a room on the other side of the house set up as a voice booth for those occasions when I’m working with separate voice talent.

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In episode 128, we explore the first half of the “Delay and echo” submenu items in the effects menu. Also, my plans to move my home studio in the new year, and this week saw the release of the Audition 3.0.1 patch. See the previous post for details.

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In ep 127, we start (one more time!) working our way through the effects menus of Audition 3, starting with the ‘Amplitude and Compression’ submenu items.

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In episode 126, I invited Michael Rooney (the author of the shareware program, Mediasweeper) to come over and have a chat about exactly what his application is designed to do, and how it works. For anyone who uses the multitrack side of Audition, this program is a MUST-HAVE! With versions 2 and 3 of Audition, pressing record [...]

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This week, a bunch of listener e-mails to answer. First up, we heard from Bomar in France. After editing and mixing this episode, it occurred to me that this really should have been in Sine Language rather than BTP… oh well, sue me! Bomar mentioned (among other things), a microphone which is alledgedly capable of picking up [...]

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This week, a discussion on handling noise within your home, prompted by a discussion I had with Luke Stapely on Facebook. Dynamics processor, with no ratio of compression or expansion. Click image to see full view. Dynamics processor with text box for finite input and output value entry. Click image to see full view. Here, all values above -30dBFS [...]

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After my post on Thursday evening, I received an e-mail from Hugo Sharp asking for more discussion on recording Skype calls into Audition. Also, I’ve produced new podast imaging with a new voice (Mike Drayson). Love that guy’s voice! And again, I’m asking for some input. Where does btp go from here?

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…just testing out the latest version of WordPress. whoosh001 I’m interested to see if that audio file ends up being “published” in the feed, like an episode of a podcast. ok, that ought to be enough mucking around for now.   Addendum Well, no, apparently you can now attach media files to a post without them appearing in the feed! Woohoo! Where was [...]

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In episode 122, Bruce takes a look at the new Adaptive Noise Reduction function in Audition v3. Plus a nice little trick to employ with ANR towards the end!

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This week, my new toy (an AEA R84 ribbon mic), my lynda.com Reason v4 title is now online, plus a few e-mails to answer, including using Lame in Audition (thanks Steve Mayfield!), deleting silence, plus a request… where am I up to?

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And you thought it would never happen, right? At last, BTP is back. This week, a couple of e-mails to answer. Jim Weishorn asked about the introduction of quantization errors from too much processing. And Mike Wills asked about encoding your mp3’s from inside Audition, but using Lame instead of the Fraunhofer codec. Which led to a discussion of the [...]

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This week, Jim Perry asked about monitor resolution, and Valente Espinosa asked about sidechain compression (even if he didn’t realise that that was what he was asking about!). And it just so happens that there’s a free VST plugin which does sidechain compression! It’s called Sidekick. Also, Bruce is heading back to the States to visit NAB (can’t wait for [...]

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This week, a look at the healing brush tool, and the effects paint brush.

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This week, Jim Weishorn asked about editing AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio in Audition. And it just so happens that there is a free plugin available which allows Audition to open AC3 files! You can grab it here, or you can visit ac3filter.net. There was also an e-mail from Vassya regarding salvaging clipped audio, which led to another of [...]

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This week, a quick look at the auto phase correction tool in AA3 and just where the use of this tool should go in a restoration workflow, a discussion on cpu usage between audio apps, a look at the new “default file type” options for opening and saving files in AA3, plus the new “top and tail view” [...]

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In ep 115, we start looking at some of the tweaks, upgrades and additional features in Audition 3 over v2.0. For those wanting to persist with their exploration of the MIDI capabilities of AA3, you might want to check out this pdf of the Audition 3 MIDI engine. Some of the new features and tweaks covered: * You [...]

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This week, a couple of listener e-mails to answer regarding why mixdowns which peaked at 0dBFS in MTV come out 3dB lower in EV, and another quick recap of what dither is and when to use it. Also, the promo Bruce mixed for Phil Massyn’s new podcast, Podify. And as for the MIDI sequencer in AA3? You’re [...]

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