Audio sounds different in Multitrack session than when exported

[24hoursayear]

Hey, so recently I have been having some trouble when exporting tracks (radio promos) from Audition. I have had two separate problems that both involve the changing of sound from the preview to the exported track.

My first issue is a multitrack session with EQ automation in it, it works and sounds great in the multitrack session, but when exported, the EQ automation is no longer on the track. How do I export a multitrack mixdown where tracks retain their automation? (for the record, there is other automation in this session which does work, such as effects rack mix.

My second issue is a processed voice over that sounds perfect and crisp in the multitrack editor, but on export sounds odd and out of phase? I have tried reversing the phase, and it still sounds weird. I tried bouncing the track to another and the bounced track sounds out of phase as well. The same goes for if I mute everything and export it, still out of phase.

This can't be problems with the software I am playing it back on because 1) everything else in both of these promos sounds exactly the same and 2) I'm playing the clips back in audition.

Please help.

I am running the latest version of Audition from the creative cloud

PC Specs:

Intel Core i507300HQ 2.50GHz

8GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX1050

Windows 10 64 bit

[ryclark]

Can't really see enough of your Track output routing to know exactly what is going where. However normally when using something like a Delay effect on a Bus the Track would be routed to the Effects Bus via a Track Send, rather than what appears to be happening in your case, having the Track output sent to the Bus not direct to the Master. Usually the Delay effect would be mixed with the direct output to give the required sound effect which can't happen in your mix. What appears in the final Mixdown (or Track Bounce) is what is being sent to the Master track output.

Is any other track being sent to the Delay bus apart from the VO? Usually you only use Reverb/Delay effects on a Bus when you need several Tracks to use the same effect. Normally you would just add the Delay effect into the Track where you want it to happen and then automate the Dry/Wet mix to bring in the effect when you want it.

[24hoursayear]

I'm sending a couple of tracks to the delay, but the delay isn't really what this problem is about

[WUL Valse]

Up ! I'm experiencing the exact same problem while processing voices in Audition 2019 : my denoiser is not taken into account in my export and it sounds very much different than my mix. Has anyone figured out a solution yet ? 

[Emily5E61]

Hi... I've been having this problem for many months. It's driving me nuts. None of my track EQ will export. 

[Sijjal5FC2]

Try doing this 

When exporting the file there will be an option "sample type" in it there will be options selected by default as "same as source" change that 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

The above reply is completely irrelevant - this cannot possibly have any bearing on a failure to export effects correctly. 

[Emily5E61]

yeah that doesn't make any sense... FWIW... I updated Audition to the latest version and this isn't an issue for me anymore. 

[Eric5DEB]

Hey Steve, wondering if you have an answer for the issue? I've seen you repsond on a different post with a similar issue but I didn't find if you had a resolution or not. I like most people are having the same issue. Simply the exported audio from adobe sounds more echo(y) than what is in audition before being exported. 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

See Emily's reply above. And most people aren't having this issue, otherwise the forum would be swamped with it - and it isn't.

[evocrim]

I have encountered the same problem, session mixdowns sound alarmingly different outside of Audition, so different that it's almost impossible to tell how a finished mix will sound after it's been exported. Perhaps people give up trying to solve these things in the Adobe forum because...

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

One of the things that hasn't been mentioned is that including 'effects' like Denoise without pre-rendering them is very likely to cause things to sound different; this isn't a good way to work at all, as it uses a lot of processing power unneccessarily, and this may well prejudice the mixed output. In general though, most times when people experience this sort of problem it's because of what has or hasn't been routed correctly to the Master channel. And it's not entirely straightforward, that. For instance, if you send a feed of a track to a bus, and include the output of that bus in the mix, but still have the track output routed directly to your listening output, then the mix is going to sound completely different. Yes it is possible to do that, and it's also possible to miss it completely when checking. In general Multitrack is pretty good at doing exactly what you've set it to do - whether you realised the implications or not...

[TheKLF23]

Actually it does seem to fix this kind of problem.  I just exported an interview in MP3 format.  It's real strange as opening it up and playing it back in audition it sounds fine - but then opening the same file on any other player (podcast uploader, windows media player, etc) and it's distorted and a mess (mine sounded like the guy being interviewed was in a bathroom!!).  I changed the settings from same as source to 44.1khz 16-bit (Adaptive Noise Shaping) preset and it exported fine.

It seems that when a file is opened up in Audition that it still has access to the original files it plays the original files rather than playing the actual saved edited file - not too sure how it's doing that or where it's encoded that information but it does seem a bit of a stupid thing to do as you're listening to something on one thing and getting a totally different quality to in the editor.

[Marcela5E69]

This worked for me. Thanks!

[defaultng1eo2zbge79]

My different sound is in single track view the voice is clear but "tinny", yet sounds great in multitrack view? Ummmm