Adobe Audition improving audio quality

Question

Hello! I have a recording with sound quality that I would like to improve. Got Adobe Audition software and tried various things in there (mainly different Effects). However, I'm not a professional and whatever I do does not make much of a difference. The software is clearly designed for professionals (too many parameters to change). Thus, I'm seeking some professional advice. Here is the excerpt of the audio which should also be available in this message (it's my first post and I don't know if the file is attached properly). I would really appreciate it if someone could provide some advice on how to improve the quality of the audio (if it is possible). Thank you very much in advance!

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

You can never 'improve' the basic quality of the audio you record (or indeed that anybody records) - that's inherently as good as it gets. Things like distortion and anything that's missing simply can't be fixed. You can get rid of extraneous sounds, and reduce background noise, and even EQ things, but that won't alter the basic quality - which is entirely down to the way you capture the sound and store it. For instance, if you store your recording only as an MP3 that's an instant quality loss that you can't get back - you need to store your original recordings as uncompressed wave files, not compressed MP3. Applying any form of effect randomly is inevitably going to make things worse, not better, I'm afraid.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded