Adobe Audition CS6 - Issues when doing multitrack mixdowns

Report · Feb 12, 2018

Hey guys, after looking around and not finding a solution to my problem, I was hoping someone might be able to help me. I have been doing audio mixing in Audition CS6 with mogg files. I've been mixing them in 5.1 surround sound sessions. When I find a balanced volume for each part of the song and go to export, it exports and doesn't sound like what I heard while working in the session. I've been exporting the mixdowns as FLAC files. When I do this, for some reason the bass and drums are louder than every other instrument, even though in the session they don't sound like this. Does anybody have any explanation as to why this could be? I've tried messing with the pan settings in multitrack preferences too. Could it be the file type? Any help would be appreciated.

Report · Feb 13, 2018

How are you monitoring your 5.1 surround mixes? What audio interface and speakers are you using?

Report · Mar 07, 2018

I'm very sorry for not responding earlier. I'm not sure what you mean by audio interface, do you mean the audio hardware setting? It's set to ASIO. As for the speakers, I'm using a Logitech G40 headset. It is 7.1 surround sound and has been properly configured.

Report · Mar 08, 2018

Yes I did mean what soundcard device you are using. However I can't help any further since I don't know if the Logitech headset can be configured properly to provide the correct surround sound monitoring with Audition. Audition requires an interface that can provide six discrete audio channels out not just decode previously encoded surround audio, which is all that your headset can do I suspect. So does the Audio Hardware set up page in Audition's preferences with the ASIO drivers allow you to select individual outputs for all six of your surround channels?

Report · Mar 17, 2018

Are you talking about Audio Channel Mapping settings? If I go to those I am able to see my headset's different channels in MME. It allows me to map up to 8 channels. However when I switch to ASIO I can't see my headset.

Report · Mar 17, 2018

I'm afraid that I am confused about your Audition's audio hardware settings. In Post #2 you said that it is set to ASIO but now you are saying that you can't see the Logitech if ASIO is selected. I suspect that it is doubtful that Logitech supply any ASIO drivers for their headset.

Anyway however the it is set up if all channels are successfully being routed to the Logitech headset I doubt if that is the cause of your monitoring problems with the bass levels. Where are the bass and drums panned to in the Surround Panner?

Report · Mar 18, 2018

Drums and bass are usually panned in the left and right back. I really appreciate the help. When it comes to different audio drivers and things like that, I'm not very experienced so a lot of this is new information.

Report · Mar 19, 2018

That is unusual for drums and bass to be panned to the rear. They are usually, except for special effect, kept panned across the front and centre. Does the monitored level of the drums and bass change if you pan them to, say, left and right front?

Report · Apr 07, 2018

No, the monitored level stays the same pretty much if I move it to the front.