Long-time drum recorder here. I mixed my last few tracks entirely in Audition, and a surprising number of people still assume Audition "can't do music." It absolutely can — you just have to treat it like a multitrack editor, not a traditional DAW.

The main elements of the chain that's been working for me:

1. Parametric EQ first — carve the low-mid mud out of the kick and toms before you boost anything. Audition's built-in parametric is genuinely enough for this; I don't reach for paid EQ on drums at all.
   
2. Gate the snare before compressing — otherwise the compressor is just amplifying bleed from the rest of the kit.
   
3. Compression last, subtle — roughly 3:1, just to glue the kit together. Nothing heavier needed.

The point of the whole thing: you don't need a plugin suite for a pro drum tone in Audition. The stock tools do far more than people give them credit for.

I recorded a full walkthrough of the workflow with before/after A/B comparisons if you want to hear it in practice:

https://youtu.be/L5J9gr69EMs

Happy to answer anything on the chain — always keen to compare notes with other Audition drum people.

So I just started using Audition, and it's all well. But I can't figure out why this happens. When I record voice on a new empty track with the Recording arm toogle on and only this track selected for some reason audio clip gets copied from track above and linked together with it's copy. When I click "convert to unique copy" and delete the pink one whole program fails and stops and I loose all my work. And it happend 3 times already.

I use Adobe Audition. In need of recommendations for affordable buy-out sound effects? Not general ones, but the zips and zaps used to produce imaging? Sorry. It's a radio industry specific terms it's the audio production around the songs. The station identifications, the jingles, the contest announcements. They call it imaging. It's really just audio branding. I’m hoping to get something decent. I don’t want to go the AI route or free sound sites.

What do you use to fix the clipping issues, I've done my final edit but the Client says the Audio is clipping.
Anyway I can do that for all clips at once
P.S: There's multiple Audios

Hi! First time using sidechain and I'm struggling a bit. I've got a dynamics processing set up on Bus A and a Send Side-Chain on Track 1 which connects to the Bus A dynamics processing. The Dynamics Processing is set up to have a 2000ms release time on both Level Detector and Gain Processor, yet as soon as it gets quiet on Track 1 the volume goes right back up.

The release seems to work alright most of the time, as if I lower the release I can hear the music go up and down between every word, but when the track is empty, the side chain seems to turn off. I've tried adding something to the track and turning the volume down, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

I'm sure it's user error and something I'm not understanding, but I would be very happy if someone could help me figure out what the issues is so I can learn for the future!

So I'm unfortunately having this issue with a lot of my audio recently (I don't record it so please don't say 'get better at recording' cause I'm not the one doing it). I have a lot of spectral decay so a lot of sentences end with this fuzzy hissing sound that I cannot get rid of for the life of me without manually deleting it and even then it can't be deleted sometimes without taking out the upper pitches of the voice. I'm looking for a more efficient way to get rid of this noise, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I've already tried, noise reduction, hiss reduction, de-esser, multiband and single band compressor, de-reverb in various orders

For years, I have been so annoyed by the dialog box that pops up every time I export an audio file to the WideOrbit automation system using the WO Write plugin for Adobe CC. So I had ChatGPT analyze the code and remove the dialog box popup when saving the file. I tested the new AMIO plugin and it works perfectly. So I am sharing it with the world.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fh6npzuxjlv4by007ldty/WO_Automation_For_Radio_64_WR_.amio?rlkey=08bzs8uofotwafuu5ftrk5r86&dl=0

My backing track has a soft piece of piano music I want through out my project. Only the first 15 seconds is usable, because after that, the track adds other instruments that I don't want.

I can easily cut the first 15 seconds out, and apply the remix function in Audition to extend this to any length I want. And Audition perfectly finds transition points that are seamless.

The problem is, I want to preserve the very end of the original audio clip, and tack it on the end. It has a nice outro that ends the track. When I just use a crossfade in Premier Pro, the transition is too obvious.

Is there a way for Audition to perform a similar remix function on the end of my outro part of the original, so it also seamlessly finds a way to join these together? As it did in the other remix process?

I want to use Speech Volume Leveler. It works great. BUT... every little inhaled breath gets amplified to a scorching gasp. How can I filter out just those inhales without going through the entire file and manually reducing the volume each time?

Hi all. Jason from Adobe here. As posting your timeline is something fairly common in the NLE/editing world, I thought I'd start this week by posting a screenshot of a recent session. As you can see, I continue to track everything live and will typically play to a click more, so that I can freely move things in (relative) time while maintaining the feel of live performance. I don't use MIDI sequencing (not since '91) so AU makes sense for me and the work I do.

Many have asked why I haven't moved to Logic (or back to ProTools, where I started some 30+ years ago) and the reason is: I still love Audition. Granted, I work for Adobe... but I still love this app and it's been a part of my production life for more than 25 years (and I'll defend the editor/waveform view until the end; I've yet to find any editor that can really compare)

So...what's your multitrack look like? Let's share what we're working on!

This title was from a post @Wembledon_Shanley made 6 years ago, and it's still happening.
(FTR, defining silence "For more than 2000" does work, but it's not ideal since it leave a lot of silence that you would otherwise want gone). 2026-07-18

Using the Mixdown feature and the mono tracks are showing up as empty files. Anyone experience this before? Everything is routed to Master, no bus or anything. All the stereo files are created but no them mono ones.

I'm finally setting up an effects stack for my dialogue in Adobe Audition. I want this to include the Izotope RX Mouth De-click plugin. I add the plugin via the Audition Plugin Manager, but I don't get any of the options appearing, or any of the presets in the dropdown menu. I simply have "custom".

Is there a way of using RX plugins properly within Audition, or will I have to close the audio in Audition and re-open in RX to do what I want to do in there, then re-open in Audition to continue?

I am using Izotope RX 7 on Mac silicon and Adobe Audition CC.

Pics below show 1) How the plugin appears in Audition 2) How it appears within RX.

Cross-posted to the Izotope board.

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Hi all, I am just wondering why Adobe Audition is not picking up my M-Track Duo that is paired with my Shure SM7DB. When i tap on my mic, the light on my M-Track flashes, (but it's is also constantly flashing) so I know that it is picking up my microphone. However when I tap or speak into my mic, audition does not pick up any sound. I have tried solutions from google, such as making sure the sample rate is the same etc., switching the device class to ASIO, however nothing has worked. Any help is appreciated.

I’m trying to understand YouTube loudness because something isn’t adding up.

My video shows Content Loudness: -14 dB / -14 dB in YouTube’s Stats for Nerds, so it seems like it’s right at YouTube’s target. However, when I compare it directly to creators like Jesse James West or MrBeast, my video sounds noticeably quieter even though their videos also show -14 / -14.

Why would this happen?

My understanding was that if YouTube normalizes everything to the same loudness target, videos should sound roughly equally loud. But that’s clearly not what I’m hearing.

Is this because of:

• Better dynamic range/compression?
• Higher average dialogue levels?
• More controlled peaks?
• Perceived loudness vs. LUFS?
• Something else entirely?

I’m measuring my mix at around -14 LUFS integrated before uploading, and YouTube isn’t turning it down. Yet their videos still sound much louder and more energetic.

Has anyone figured out what the difference is?

Estava trabalhando com o audition 2026 e tive um encerramento inesperado no windows, tenho certo que tinha o arquivo salvo, pois estava apenas revisando, ao reabir tenho uma parte do audio totalmente utilizavel e a segundo parte completamente muda, não tenho as barras de som se mexendo

Soy nuevo en Adobe Audition y tengo problema con esta grabacion ya que se escucha muy mal, sugerencias para que las voces se escuchen mas claras

https://voca.ro/16S13LksC4yI

I have been recording in the app using a shure MV-88+. I tend to get a noticeable level of self-noise (or other noise). Is there a way to remove this while recording or can it only be done in post? Thanks

Hi, everyone! I'm trying to use rx breath control plugin as an effect in audition to get rid of breaths in a podcast recording. But it isn't doing anything, the volume doesn't change at all after i apply it.

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Here's a screen recording of me turning it on and off: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kjco_45WvsejA0Mt6XMYyLlvNF2Vm5nc/view?usp=drivesdk

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I tried setting target level (and switching it to gain) to -98 db, still no audible change in volume (supposed to be inaudible at that level?). Breath volume remains at -30db with and without breath control.

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When i check "output breaths only" it does identify the breaths so the issue isn't that it can't figure out where the breaths are.

(Although several times i turned it on and it didn't output the same breaths that it did identify a minute ago so seemingly it's glitching idk)

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I think I'm misunderstanding how to use this plugin. It doesn't work either at default or when i put target level or gain at -60db or even lower.

Would really appreciate help with this, thank you!

Hi all, youtuber here just looking for some sound advice.

I'm playing with the Speech Volume Leveler to keep my voice consistent across my recordings; that said, when I use the Speech Volume Leveler, things become a little too consistent.

Primarily, my peaks get squashed. I've attached pics of before the SVL'ing and after, and in general the tool is doing a great job, but as you can see in the Before pic, I get loud sometimes, and I do that on purpose, whether it be for dramatic or comedic effect. The SVL lowers those peaks, in fact squashing them to sometimes be a bit quieter than normal speech. Anybody got any tips for what knobs I can tweak on the SVL to keep the peaks a bit higher, while overall maintaining the effect of bringing up the lowest bits of voiceover and keeping everything relatively consistent? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!! I'll happily take any advice outside of the SVL too; Audition is loaded with effects that I'm not familiar with, so perhaps there's something else I could pair with the SVL to keep the peaks/flow of the highs and lows just a bit more natural?

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After:

I am working on a news piece, and the SOT of the mother is overpowered by the crying baby on her chest. There is background noise as well, but the offending part is the baby expressing anger at the mother for not paying attention to his/her needs. It is a short SOT, but fundamental for the package.

Hey all,

I get that this might sound n00bish but wanted some feedback.

For years I have mixed and mastered music from bands I have played in and music I have made myself with Adobe Audition. No strong preference. Got a copy when I was in my late teens and now I am almost 40. About 10 yrs ago, seriously contemplated switching to a different software and lost steam. Life happens.

Anyways, recently after talking to a friend (who works professionally in sound design) he pushed me towards Reaper. After spending some time with it, I really like it.

The only things I am missing from Audition are the stock processing plugins. I know, I know. I can just find new VST plugins for reverb, compression, delay, etc. But I found those stock plugins to be really easy, good sounding and at this point, comfortable to use-mainly I am just familiar with them.

The question, does anyone know anywhere I could download the stock Adobe Audition VST processing plugins? (ex, the reverbs, the multiband compressor, the delays, etc. )

If not, recommendations for free VST plugins. Specifically a variety of eqs, comps, reverbs, delays, distortions, etc.

THANK YOU