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oreichiban
Participating Frequently
March 17, 2026
Question

Adobe is randomly gradually fading up and down while I record. I listen to the playback and I hear it fading down to the point where it's unusable.

  • March 17, 2026
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I record audio from my mic to an audio interface into my computer and to the DAW (Adobe Audition). I can’t figure out why it’s doing this but I’ll record and then when I step back to playback the recording there are places where the audio will fade out and back in (Also shows on the waveform). You can see in the images shared that the audio goes down considerably, I maintained my mic distance and placement, and maintained my speaking volume throughout both of these. The second screenshot is where it is the worst, but since it is a private audition I can’t share the audio file. The first one I just went to NESCAFE’s website and read coffee facts for the sample. I’ll upload that one as an mp3 as well. Any ideas on what could be causing this issue?

 

I have tried switching the buffering size from 512 up to 1024, which seemed to have no affect. I have it set to ASIO (I’m on Windows). and the sample rate is 48kHz, which matches the system settings. 

 

My recording setup is as follows:

Mic: Neumann TLM 103

Audio Interface: Universal Audio - Apollo Twin USB

 

If anything else is needed to help figure this out, please let me know.

 

Thanks in advance

 

    2 replies

    Rag and Bone
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2026

    No idea why this is happening, but:

    Does it make any difference if you record in waveform or mutlitrack?

    Have you tried recording in other apps?

    oreichiban
    Participating Frequently
    March 18, 2026

    I haven’t done enough recording in multitrack to say if it “doesn’t” do it there, but the little that I have used it I haven’t seen an issue. I can definitely try recording in that mode for a while and see if it makes a difference.

    I recorded a long time ago with Audacity, but it was so long ago that I don’t remember if the issue happened there. I’ve done a small amount of voiceover in Premiere, but again it wasn’t really enough to see if the issue happens, so I’ll have to do more testing in those areas.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 17, 2026

    First question is - has this ever worked correctly?

    oreichiban
    Participating Frequently
    March 17, 2026

    Hi Steve. It’s been doing this as far back as I can remember. In fact to my memory, it even did it back on my previous interface and microphone. Which likely rules out those parts of the chain being the problem.

    oreichiban
    Participating Frequently
    March 17, 2026

    It does seem to be happening more frequently recently though, btw.