Best settings for lav mic Tram-TR50 in Audition?

Report · Mar 05, 2019

Hello everybody,

so after having received some very useful advice in this thread https://forums.adobe.com/message/10625613#10625613

, I have bought a Tram TR 50 and have also treated my room (a different room than before), with DIY acoustic panels, bass traps and some acoustic foam.

I am wondering what settings I should use in Adobe Audition to get the most out of it. There aren't any tutorials on the Internet on how to do adobe audition audio settings for a specific mic.

What would be the best settings in the parametric equalizer and what other effects should I apply to the recording?

Here is a sample of my recording (it's from an educational Youtube about Chinese history):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vX-sPVVuDDYxMDhv5hEE7om-fS2DAcij/view?usp=sharing

(I know my voice still doesn't sound very good, I am working on it.)

Report · Mar 06, 2019

A good pro mic shouldn't need any special settings except to get the gain correct to give a decent level of signal into Audition without clipping. Yes you may need to add some EQ to make your voice sound as you want and probably some compression to reduce the dynamic range a bit.

There are loads of helpful (and not so helpful) videos on recording/processing Voiceovers with Audition on YouTube.

Report · Mar 06, 2019

Sky24 wrote

I am wondering what settings I should use in Adobe Audition to get the most out of it. There aren't any tutorials on the Internet on how to do adobe audition audio settings for a specific mic.

It's hardly surprising that there aren't any tutorials about it, because there's no such thing as 'best' - everybody, and all recorded audio, is different, so what works for one person's recordings is likely to be completely wrong for somebody else's. But as ryclark says, a good mic is already likely to make a pretty 'truthful' recording - and the Trams are certainly good mics - so unless there's something seriously wrong with the environment you're recording in, then you shouldn't have to do much, other than possibly compress the peaks.