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Supercharged Sound: Enhancing Your Edits With Adobe Audition

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April 23, 2024
JJ Lyon
Krotos Studio
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As a content creator, you are going to want to make the most of all of your tools to make the highest quality edits you can and stand out from other editors in a sea of TikTok and reels content. We’re going to show you what can be achieved when you use Adobe Audition as part of your Adobe workflow.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud comes with many incredible tools. No doubt you are making the most of Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects for your edits. As a visual creative, you’re probably familiar with Illustrator and Lightroom too!

One tool that you may have not explored though, is Adobe Audition; the Digital Audio Workstation that also is included with your Creative Cloud subscription.

All About Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition is a powerful digital audio workstation (DAW) from Adobe Systems. It is designed for audio editing, mixing, restoration, and effects. Here's a breakdown of what Adobe Audition offers and how it can be a valuable tool for a content creator like yourself

Sound Design

Adobe Audition lets you have full control over audio in your edits. Import your video, voice over recordings and music, and get to work adding in whooshes, pings, transitions, impacts, and more to add a professional and engaging touch to your edits.

Audio Editing

Adobe Audition provides comprehensive tools for high-precision audio editing. You can cut, splice, and manipulate audio clips with ease, making it ideal for fine-tuning dialogue, adjusting timing, and more. Add fades, reverse sound files, chop them up, delete parts you don’t need, and much more.

Multitrack Mixing

Once edited, you can mix your edits to perfection. Adobe Audition allows you to work with multiple audio tracks simultaneously, which is great for complex projects involving layered sound effects, background music, and dialogue. The multitrack environment is versatile for mixing and arranging audio elements precisely. Use the mixer window and make music quieter and dialogue louder. remove rumbling frequencies, place sounds in the left speaker or the right speaker individually and more.

Audio Restoration

Audition includes various tools that help clean up recordings by removing noise, hiss, hum, or other unwanted background sounds. This is particularly useful for improving the quality of location recordings or older audio files. So if you have some poort quality dialogue that was recorded on location, by a roadside or with a passing plane overhead, you can remove some of these intrusive sounds and save that all-important take.

Sound Effects

You can apply a wide range of built-in effects to your audio, such as reverb, delay, EQ, compression, and many more. Audition also supports third-party VST plugins, expanding your capability to add unique sound effects to your projects. The opportunities to add effects to your edits is down to your imagination!

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Integration with Other Adobe Products

If you're already using Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop, Audition integrates seamlessly with these applications. This integration allows for smooth workflow transitions, such as sending audio from Premiere Pro to Audition for detailed editing and then back again without any hassle. This provides a super smooth workflow

Podcast and Voiceover Production

Audition is also a popular choice for podcasters and voice-over artists, thanks to its user-friendly interface and robust editing tools that make it easy to produce professional-quality audio. Control the volume of voice recordings, add in sound effects and music, and much more across numerous tracks, with ease.

Spectral Frequency Display

This feature provides a detailed visual representation of the sound, allowing you to see and edit specific frequencies more accurately. It's especially useful for forensic audio work like isolating spoken words obscured by background noise.

Adobe Audition is a versatile tool that can handle just about any audio task you throw at it, making it a valuable addition to your content creation toolkit, especially if you're looking to produce high-quality audio content alongside your visual projects.

Enhance Your Content by Pushing Your Sound To The Next Level

Now you have seen what can be achieved in Adobe Audition, why not give it a try? Explore plugins and effects and tools, and create incredible audio to push your edits to a professional level.

See how we made a sound design in Adobe Audition using our flagship sound design platform, Krotos Studio

Watch it Here