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KL117
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April 16, 2021
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Individual Clips Distort Even After Exporting

  • April 16, 2021
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Hi. I'm a new Audition user, so I'm not familiar with many of the features / specific terms. I edited a 20 minute podcast episode in Audition, which worked great. Seemingly randomly as I'm editing, though, specific clips will become distorted and start sounding echoey and odd. They're always clips of narration that have been pitch-shifted down a couple semitones, but it isn't the same clips each time. If I go back and play the distorted clip over again, or if I remove and replace identical the audio (with all the same effects on it), it solves the problem for that clip but then another will spontaneously distort. I thought it was just a rendering problem but it persists when exported as .WAV and .mp3. I can export the audio three times in a row with the same settings and different clips will be affected. It's incredibly frustrating and I don't know what to do!

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
April 16, 2021

Need more information, really. It sounds as though you've got processing applied to a clip that might need pre-rendering before the mixdown. If you set up your clip with whatever processing needs doing to it and hit the little lightning bolt at the top of the effects rack, it will pre-apply all of the effects before the actual mixdown for export. I'd try that first before looking for anything deeper.

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KL117Author
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April 16, 2021

I've been pre-rendering effects on these tracks already, so I don't think that's the issue. When it distorts, the audio sounds like it's echoing and a little muffled at the same time. I'm wondering if it's a stereo versus mono issue? I have no idea whether the mic I used records in stereo or mono, but my setting in the input/output on the tracks was set to mono external microphone. If the recording is actually in stereo but the setting is different, could that be the problem? I feel like this problem often happens when the left and right audio levels don't appear to be equal in the playback bar, which is why I'm wondering if it's related.

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