In today’s post, Jeff Sengstack will show you how to enhance vocal audio quality in Audition. Note: make sure you watch the video tutorial Jeff has prepared for you! What you could do in order to get more control is to use a Preset.So you got this little vocal thing here and you want to enhance the audio quality, they have presets. Change how your voice sounds. Voice modifiers serve many purposes. Whether you’re doing voice-over for different characters in an animated film, adding depth to your podcast presence or audiobook narration or just having fun with Skype, Google Hangouts or online games, you can quickly change your voice with Audition. Begin by exploring the possibilities in the Effects tab and then layer them. If you have Audition I’d say stick to recording AND editing in the same software. Audition has some great audio encoders so you’ll always get top quality. If, for a reason, you have to record source in Audacity stick to.wav, 44100 Hz (or 48000 Hz for video) at a high bit-rate 24-bit.

In today’s post, Jeff Sengstack will show you how to enhance vocal audio quality in Audition.

Note: make sure you watch the video tutorial Jeff has prepared for you!

Let’s start!

What you could do in order to get more control is to use a Preset. So you got this little vocal thing here and you want to enhance the audio quality, they have presets.

The Presets are inside the Effects Rack.

So you have the Effects Racks, Effects Racks for individual files like this and when you’re working on a multi-track mix.

So here’s the Effects Rack for this particular file and just a bunch place waiting for you to select an effect. I can go up and select an effect like a hard limiter or compressor or dynamics processing but there are these presets here. I’m clicking on the Presets drop down list. And you don’t need to read all these guys, it will take a long time to do that.

But there are a couple of things in here that are vocal oriented. One is called the Podcast Voice, the other is called the radio announcer voice. The Podcast Voice, I’m going to show that to you, I don’t recommend you use it. It adds something; you get this message saying – by the way, one of these guys requires a lot of process for power mix, the one right there. I say, okay, fine. It uses something to call the adaptive noise reduction.

Here’s the video tutorial:

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The adaptive noise should actually try to analyze your files for any noise and then tries to reduce the noise, which is not a good thing because it does not work that well. It usually is lagging behind any noise and usually doesn’t really do a good job reducing the noise and so I’d rather control that manually and I’m going to show you how to reduce noise and remove noises next class.

Anyways, so I use control command Z to undo that. I don’t want to do it that way.

The good one to use instead of Podcast Voice is Radio Announcer Voice. That adds three effects:

• Multiband Compressor
• Parametric Equalizer
• and Hard Limiter.

So to see these effects and show how they work, I’m going to turn off these bottom two, I’m just clicking on this little green thing there, a little tilt with just the multiband compressor.

Wow! Isn’t that something. My voice is now way down here. I’ll double click on this just to show you how this looks like.

This is the multiband compressor. It’s called the VST (Virtual Studio Technology) from a German company and the company that made this for the VST plug-in, which is now a standardized plug-in approach for audio. This company called Izotope.