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cridco
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March 15, 2017
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Newbie needs a solid Audition workflow

  • March 15, 2017
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hi everyOne

i am recording my first audiobook in a home studio i made and they are not turning out bad at all, but there is a slight annoying echo--which it appears that inneed to buy a plugin to remove.

Apart from that is there a workflow that someone could recommmend that they would apply to any file in general to make it sound better?

i am overwhelmed by all the effects options......

also when al that is done is there a simple coue of steps to mastering the final cut?

any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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    ryclark
    ryclark
    Participating Frequently
    March 15, 2017

    Your annoying echo will be down to the room acoustic in which you recoded your audio. There is not a lot that you can do with effects after the recording, even if you spend a lot of money on plugins. However you can mitigate the effect at source by choosing careful where you record, what mic you use and how you use it.

    There are quite a few 'Voiceover' tutorials online. These may help.

    Producing Professional Voiceovers At Home, Part 1 |

    Producing Professional Voiceovers At Home, Part 2 |

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    cridcoAuthor
    Participant
    March 16, 2017

    Thank you Mr Clark. 

    Is is there someone who could give a quick workflow that would be an essential enhancement to any audiobook voice over on Audition?

    Normalization?

    noise reduction?

    de essing?

    Bob Howes
    Bob Howes
    Inspiring
    March 16, 2017

    There's no standard workflow--it depends on the raw material you've recorded.  As ryclark says, there's no effective way to remove room tone once recorded--you have to get it as close to right as possible during the recording.  The same applies to all aspects of the signal.  For example, you should try to avoid the need for noise reduction as a normal part of your workflow.

    However, at the most basic, you'd probably want to consider the following:

    1.  Equalisation (if required) to add any desired "tone" to your voice.  If it's perfect as recorded, great but even a lot of pro voice overs need some EQ.

    2.  Compression to reduce the dynamic range of your recording.  Since audio books are often listened to in noisy environments, you don't want the quiet bits to go TOO quiet.  Audition has some decent voice-oriented presets in multiband compression and tube modelled compressor--I'd start with those and play with a few tweaks.

    3.  Normalisation to put the loudest part of the signal where you want it for duplication--likely around -1dB or so.

    Hope this helps.

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