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bluesxman5
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March 31, 2019
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When recording, playback volume lowers significantly

  • March 31, 2019
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Hello. Longtime Adobe user but I'm new to Audition. I'm using it to record a podcast into multitrack. I am going out from a mixer into my computer and recording directly in Audition. As I am recording the sound is great. Warm, volume is good, etc. But when I stop recording and hit play to see how it sounds, the volume is lower and it sounds nothing like it did in my headphones. When I increase the level of the track it gets overdriven. Am I missing a setting where the playback can just sound exactly like it did as I recorded?

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    March 31, 2019

    Are you using the Podcast template? If you are, try recording again with a 'normal' one - just on a basic track. The problem with the podcast template is that it isn't really aimed at inexperienced users, and it has some weird settings that mean that anything that isn't optimised exactly for the effects already applied to track playback really isn't going to work very well.

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    bluesxman5Author
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    March 31, 2019

    Thanks for the reply Steve. I am not using a template or any effects. I did notice that when the output is on Master (the default) it's super quiet and when I choose the mono speaker as my output it is much louder but seems to be adding a slight echo to the recording. I feel like it has to be something in there. I can't find any settings to adjust the master output. But it seems like it could be something in there. Any experience with that?

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    April 1, 2019

    If you open Audition's mixer panel, then you can see what all of the relative settings are very easily. If all the faders are at 0dB, then the only loss you will get will be as a result of the pan law setting - which by default will give you a loss of -3dB, which doesn't sound anything like what you are getting. After that, it's a matter of what you've got the input level of wherever your output is being sent to set to - you haven't said how you are monitoring this. But check the mixer first...

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