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simonlchabi
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October 30, 2025
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How does Audition 2025 Repair DC Offset ?

  • October 30, 2025
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This DC Offset in my .wav file is very apparent in the waveform view - in the left & right channel windows the vertical shift down from the usual  symmetrical waveform  see image uploaded.  But I found no 'Repair DC offset' in my Audition 2025s Favourites menu like in Larrys Jordans youtube "Verify Audio Quality and Fix DC Offset Problems Using Adobe Audition 2021"    where he fixes same issue by that favourite. But obvious from the videos content is he is using *Audition 2021  and on an Apple Mac.  So my problem is just that - how do I get my Audition 2025 to repair this nasty offset and thus edit the horrible sound coming from the offset - it sounds like a greasy kitchen wipeup sponge was rubbed over the source vinyl EP before playing it.

Beste Antwort von SteveG_AudioMasters_

There's a fade up at the start, and typically at 4'20" where the volume drops to zero. That black line is the zero point in the waveform, and if there was a DC offset that's where it would show - not on the peaks. The DC offset adjustment was dropped years ago, because the issue that introduced it has been eliminated with all modern sound devices. The phase shifting technique is the usual way to reduce the assymetry. The cause of it is simply that positive peaks in the waveform are larger from some sources than others - typically brass instruments are prime suspects, but the human voice can also do this. It's always positive because it's a breath offset, and forward breath is by convention always shown as a positive excursion (it's nearly impossible to make a significant noise whilst breathing in). Incidentally, on your original screen-grab, the lower channel appears to be polarity-reversed; the assymetry is going in the wrong direction.

 

Anyway, if you had a DC offset control available, adjusting it with those waveforms would actually introduce an offset!

 

There are other ways of 'correcting' this percieved problem - typically if you have a lot of short peaks, you can use a limiter to reduce them, and with care you won't notice the difference. But, it only really matters anyway if you are trying to extract the maximum loudness from a track, as those peaks limit the maximum excursion.

 

Personally I'd get the channel phase sorted out and leave it alone, but of course it's entirely up to you what you do. But no, it's not a DC offset.

 

 

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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October 31, 2025

Well, all the fades in your sample go correctly down to zero - which means that you have assymetrical audio rather than a DC offset. Depending on what it is that's recorded, this can be quite normal. So what's that a recording of?

simonlchabi
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November 1, 2025

An E.P. by Human League from the late 70s  'the Dignity of Labour'   DLed from Youtube legitimately - I have licenced DLer - but I reckon originally from vinyl  the Youtube was of a John Peel Radio show.  As it happens I partially fixed the assymetricallity of it .. now it sounds better but there is still some strange low frequency noise.