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November 15, 2025
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Exporting a track at different levels?

  • November 15, 2025
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I'm thinking of on DLSR cameras you can bracket exposure, take photos as flat exposure and then +/- 2/3 or 1 or whatever. Is that possible on Adobe Audition? I've searched on the Internet — and maybe I'm not searching for the right thing — but found nothing.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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November 15, 2025

Doesn't really work like that with audio. With a camera, the dynamic visual range that the recording medium can handle is rather less than the possible range of light conditions. So, you allow for bracketed exposures at the capture stage to fix problems with burnt-out sky, etc. that you can actually fix later, if you need to, typically using gamma correction.

 

Modern audio recording is a bit more capable than that, and it's quite easy to have a record level setting that will capture everything from levels too low to hear, to sounds up to the threshold of pain - and even more now that we have 32-bit Floating Point recording available on some machinery. And all without changing the record level. So basically there's absolutely no need to 'bracket' audio at all. If you want to restrict the dynamics afterwards that's fine, but basically all it comes down to is that we can make a rather better job of recording sound than we can of recording the entire dynamics of light. So you weren't using the wrong terms - you were just looking for something that doesn't exist .

 

It is perfectly possible to make recordings the way you are describing - it's just that there's absolutely no need to do so.