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prschwab92
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June 4, 2021
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Exporting Multitrack Mixdown Increases Gain on Clips

  • June 4, 2021
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To begin I'm a novice when it comes to audio editing. I use Audition because I have the CC subscription for some of the other programs.

Anyways, me and two of my friends have a podcast that I use Audition to edit. We each record our own tracks at our own homes in Audacity and they upload them to my OneDrive folder so I can download the MP3 files. I then bring them into Audition and using the waveform editor create noise profiles and reduce the noise for each clip individually. Then I save them and bring them to the multitrack editor with our intro music. I apply an essential sound preset based of the podcast voice dialog preset and then silence, cut, trim, ect to the clips.

This worked fine until a few episodes ago. Now when I go to export the multitrack I'll get clips where the volumn is boosted and it's just loud noise. On the track the clip might be boosted to 30-40 dB where it should be 5-10dB. It only happens on clips where that person isn't talking and after I export. For example the hosts on track 1 and 2 will be listening while the host on track 3 is talking, but the clip for track 2 has the gain set to 30dB instead of 5dB causing there to be random noise.

I don't think my workflow has changed at all, but this seemed to just happen out of the blue. Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any help.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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June 4, 2021

Usually when something unexpected occurs to podcasts, it has everything to do with using the Podcast template. If you've made the mistake (and it is a mistake) of starting your podcast assembly session using this instead of, say, the default template then yes, you are likely to get unexpected things happening. I don't absolutely know that this is the case with you, but it's the one thing we'd need to get out of the way first...

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prschwab92Author
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June 5, 2021

Yeah I learned that early on that the podcast template wasn't very good. I don't even do too much in Audition. I import the tracks. Do noise reduction individually. Add them to a new multitrack (no templates). I apply the essential sounds podcast voice preset but I disabled the dynamics and EQ so it does boost the audio there. Then I silence or cut the clips. The issue only occurs once I export the multitrack.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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June 6, 2021

Make sure in the mixer that all the faders are set to 0dB, for a start, although that's unlikely to be the cause. If you've been messing about with individual clips, it's possible, if you aren't careful, to select track effect when you meant clip effect, and vice versa. But ultimately in the mixer view you should be able to see exactly what's happening where.

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