Audition Workflow on a terrible track

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I'm new to Audition. I have a terrible dialogue track, with pops, clicks, A/C and other noises, low input levels, just about every problem that can exist. I understand some of the tools, but in which order should they be applied? e.g. should I remove noise then increase the levels? when should limiters be used? where can I learn more in depth? I have watched videos but i find a lot of general overview type stuff and nothing in-depth. would like to find something in depth about cleaning up dialogue including EQ and ... well from A to Z. any advice is appreciated. thank you

elkalamar · Answer

hiI don't think workflow in Audition should differ in any way from what you might do in any other DAW. But in case this helps -I would in your position probably 1. boost the amplitude of the file to some extent using Amplify (under Effects > Amplitude and Compression) or Normalize (under the same menu) Normalize has the advantage that you can set the level dB you want to boost to without risk of clipping.Then 2. use the Noise Reduction to see if you can get rid of hiss and hum etc, assuming you can find a suitable section of audio that doesn't have the signal you want to keep in it to use as the noise sample.Then 3. any other tools, such as Click Reduction, or using the Spot Healing tool in the Waveform editor to remove particular offending sounds.Then 4. reduce the amplitude back to an acceptable level afterwards.But in all honesty though you can do some marvelous things with Audition's tools there are limitations, and if your audio is so bad to begin with it may well be a write-off. You'll have to judge yourself!

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