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Extracting channels from a multi-channel recording

New Here ,
Jul 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019

Can anyone help me? I have recorded eight soundtracks in the original but only need two for further processing. How do I delete the remaining six tracks along with the recordings and save it as a Wav file in Adobe waveform? Best regards, Lilly

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Community Expert , Jul 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019

This is simple. Assuming that you don't want to lose the original (you don't!), then use the active channel selectors at the RHS of each track to turn off all of the channels you don't want. Now Select All, Copy to New, and save the result. You will have just the three channels in the resulting file. Looks like this:

channel selection.JPG

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LEGEND ,
Jul 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019

First a couple of questions. Are the wanted audio tracks recorded as stereo and is there any audio recorded on the tracks that you don't want to keep?

There are also several ways to do what you want depending on your answers to the above.

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New Here ,
Jul 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019

Dear ryclark,

The 9 Channels are POLY WAV Mono. I need only 3 Chanels for the speech. The rest I’ll delete. I will do it in Audition Wellenform and save it as WAV, not as sexs.

Xox,

Lilly

Am 22.07.2019 um 23:55 schrieb ryclark <forums_noreply@adobe.com>:

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019

This is simple. Assuming that you don't want to lose the original (you don't!), then use the active channel selectors at the RHS of each track to turn off all of the channels you don't want. Now Select All, Copy to New, and save the result. You will have just the three channels in the resulting file. Looks like this:

channel selection.JPG

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LEGEND ,
Jul 23, 2019 Jul 23, 2019

Or alternatively you can split your Polywav into individual mono files using Extract Channels to Mono Files from the Edit menu.

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New Here ,
Jul 23, 2019 Jul 23, 2019

Dear jive,

Thank you so much for your help. Your tip works. I have another question.

In Adobe Audition Wellenform kann ich nur Track 1 und 2 abhören und nicht 3 und 4 … Wie kann ich alle Tracks in Wellenform einzeln abhören?

Xox,

Lilly

Am 23.07.2019 um 11:35 schrieb ryclark <forums_noreply@adobe.com>:

Can anyone help me? I have recorded eight soundtracks in the original but only need two for further processing. How do I delete the remaining six tracks along with the recordings and save it as a Wav file in Adobe waveform? Best regards,

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Or alternatively you can split your Polywav into individual mono files using Extract Channels to Mono Files from the Edit menu.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 23, 2019 Jul 23, 2019

In Adobe Audition Wellenform kann ich nur Track 1 und 2 abhören und nicht 3 und 4 … Wie kann ich alle Tracks in Wellenform einzeln abhören?

Yes you can - but you have to change the routing of each channel. As it stands, in Waveform view you can only play two channels, but there is nothing to stop you allocating those channels alternately to the only ones that will play, which appear to be 1 and 2. But you can't do this! What you have to do instead is reallocate each channel either to Left  or Right. You do this by right-clicking on the selector button, and you will get a display like this:

Channel selection 2.JPG

What is different about this is that you can make the same selection multiple times, and all of the channels you've allocated will play onto either Left or Right:

Channel selection 3.JPG

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New Here ,
Jul 23, 2019 Jul 23, 2019

Thank you very much. Your tip works.

Xox,

Lilly

Am 23.07.2019 um 15:46 schrieb SteveG(AudioMasters) <forums_noreply@adobe.com>:

Can anyone help me? I have recorded eight soundtracks in the original but only need two for further processing. How do I delete the remaining six tracks along with the recordings and save it as a Wav file in Adobe waveform? Best regards,

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In Adobe Audition Wellenform kann ich nur Track 1 und 2 abhören und nicht 3 und 4 … Wie kann ich alle Tracks in Wellenform einzeln abhören?

Yes you can - but you have to change the routing of each channel. As it stands, in Waveform view you can only play two channels, but there is nothing to stop you allocating those channels alternately to the only ones that will play, which appear to be 1 and 2. But you can't do this! What you have to do instead is reallocate each channel either to Left or Right. You do this by right-clicking on the selector button, and you will get a display like this:

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11179749-1797332/Channelselection2.JPG <https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-11179749-1797332/Channelselection2.JPG>

What is different about this is that you can make the same selection multiple times, and all of the channels you've allocated will play onto either Left or Right:

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11179749-1797333/Channelselection3.JPG <https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-11179749-1797333/Channelselection3.JPG>

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New Here ,
Jul 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019

Dear jive,

I have a question: How can I edit dumped voice recordings in Adobe Audition CC 2019?

There are presets for this. I used a wireless mic, which doesn't sound good.

Xox,

Lilly

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Community Expert ,
Jul 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019

I'm not entirely clear about what you're asking. But if you have bad recordings made with a wireless mic, then it's not going to be possible to tell you whether they can be corrected at all without actually hearing the recording. Generally radio mic faults are very difficult to correct, though. Especially breaking up in the transmission path...

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New Here ,
Jul 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019

Dear Jive,

The recording with the Lectrosonic and the dpa microphone has too many low frequencies and too few high frequencies. The man's voice sounds too dull. I think you can edit it in Audition, but you don't know how.

xox,

Lilly

Am 24.07.2019 um 16:37 schrieb SteveG(AudioMasters) <forums_noreply@adobe.com>:

I'm not entirely clear about what you're asking. But if you have bad recordings made with a wireless mic, then it's not going to be possible to tell you whether they can be corrected at all without actually hearing the recording. Generally radio mic faults are very difficult to correct, though. Especially breaking up in the transmission path...

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Jul 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019

elfim77783075  wrote

Dear Jive,

The recording with the Lectrosonic and the dpa microphone has too many low frequencies and too few high frequencies. The man's voice sounds too dull. I think you can edit it in Audition, but you don't know how.

This is what Equalization is for. Often a good approach is to use the Parametric EQ, but you have to listen to the result whilst previewing it first before applying it. The reason for this is that all of these sort of issues are unique - there's no single correct solution to them. A suitable starting point though might be something like this:

Slope EQ.JPG

The lower frequencies are reduced, and the higher ones boosted. If you make changes, then it's reasonably important that you stick to the 0.7 Q settings, as these have a minimal effect on the 'phasiness' of the sound, and generally work best for this sort of application.

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New Here ,
Jul 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019

Dear jive,

Thanks a million first, I'll try it out. Surely every note is unique. In my recording, the wireless microphones are too bass-styled, i.e. too dull. I am curious how it sounds.

What does stick to the 0.7 Q mean?

Best regards,

Lilly

Am 24.07.2019 um 17:54 schrieb SteveG(AudioMasters) <forums_noreply@adobe.com>:

Extracting channels from a multi-channel recording

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Dear Jive,

The recording with the Lectrosonic and the dpa microphone has too many low frequencies and too few high frequencies. The man's voice sounds too dull. I think you can edit it in Audition, but you don't know how.

This is what Equalization is for. Often a good approach is to use the Parametric EQ, but you have to listen to the result whilst previewing it first before applying it. The reason for this is that all of these sort of issues are unique - there's no single correct solution to them. A suitable starting point though might be something like this:

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11182013-1799051/SlopeEQ.JPG <https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-11182013-1799051/SlopeEQ.JPG>

The lower frequencies are reduced, and the higher ones boosted. If you make changes, then it's reasonably important that you stick to the 0.7 Q settings, as these have a minimal effect on the 'phasiness' of the sound, and generally work best for this sort of application.

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Jul 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019

elfim77783075  wrote


What does stick to the 0.7 Q mean?

This is all about how abrupt the changes in frequency response are. Have a look at this:

Slope Q values.JPG

On the number 2 filter setting, I have left the Q setting at 0.7, and you will see that the slopes down to and up from the low point of 194Hz at -6dB are fairly gentle. This has the effect of causing a gradual change in the response, and if you are doing an overall correction, it's the approach that generally sounds best, certainly with speech.

On the number 3 setting, I have increased the Q value to 10, and this means that the change with frequency is a lot more abrupt, so it will emphasise one frequency particularly - which is not what you'd want to do with speech at all. In fact you'd be far more likely to use this to remove a particular frequency rather than boost it  - having a boost like that generally wouldn't do any good at all to most signals, so really it's only there to demonstrate the difference.

So if you stick to low Q values, you are far more likely to be able to create a sloping response - which is what you will need to correct too much bass and not enough high frequency response.

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New Here ,
Jul 25, 2019 Jul 25, 2019

Dear jive,

I've tried your EQ settings and learned a lot from you that I wouldn't have found without your tips. Often the wireless mics have too few heights. Correcting this is a big help.

I am enthusiastic about you as a mentor in the Audition Forum. Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Lilly

Am 24.07.2019 um 20:24 schrieb SteveG(AudioMasters) <forums_noreply@adobe.com>:

Extracting channels from a multi-channel recording

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elfim77783075 <https://forums.adobe.com/people/elfim77783075> wrote

What does stick to the 0.7 Q mean?

This is all about how abrupt the changes in frequency response are. Have a look at this:

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11182306-1799093/SlopeQvalues.JPG <https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-11182306-1799093/SlopeQvalues.JPG>

On the number 2 filter setting, I have left the Q setting at 0.7, and you will see that the slopes down to and up from the low point of 194Hz at -6dB are fairly gentle. This has the effect of causing a gradual change in the response, and if you are doing an overall correction, it's the approach that generally sounds best, certainly with speech.

On the number 3 setting, I have increased the Q value to 10, and this means that the change with frequency is a lot more abrupt, so it will emphasise one frequency particularly - which is not what you'd want to do with speech at all. In fact you'd be far more likely to use this to remove a particular frequency rather than boost it - having a boost like that generally wouldn't do any good at all to most signals, so really it's only there to demonstrate the difference.

So if you stick to low Q values, you are far more likely to be able to create a sloping response - which is what you will need to correct too much bass and not enough high frequency response.

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Using EQ is the most critical skill you can learn. You can use the Essential Sound Panel to experiment with preset settings of all kinds including compression, denoise and more. If you've not learned about ESP, it's dope. Here's an article/video on auto ducking feature in ESP:https://www.cinemasound.com/dialog-ducking-adobe-audition-using-essential-sound-panel/

However, using EQ to its maximum is a skill. You don't really want to use EQ to solve "bad sound" issues - if it's noise etc. Noise should be done using the denoise/dereverb in Audition (which are great now).

https://www.cinemasound.com/adobe-audition-new-denoise/

But a great way to find bad frequencies and deal with them so you can focus more on the good frequencies is doing a "basic dialog grade."

https://www.cinemasound.com/making-dialog-basic-grade-female-voice/

https://www.cinemasound.com/making-dialog-basic-grade-male-voice/

https://www.cinemasound.com/create-dialog-basic-grade/

And lastly, one of my MOST favorite things to do in Audition is use it's Multi-band Compressor:

https://www.cinemasound.com/adobe-audition-sound-good-button/

Good Luck!

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Engaged ,
Jul 29, 2019 Jul 29, 2019

The quickest way to do this is to pop down the little triangle (next to the file) in the Files window. Then right click on the track you wish to extract and click Extract Channels to Mono Files. You can hold down Ctrl/Cmd and select multiple channels if you like too.

See this screen shot for a visual explanation:

Screenshot 2019-07-30 at 06.38.34.png

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Community Expert ,
Jul 30, 2019 Jul 30, 2019

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mike+Russell  wrote

The quickest way to do this is to pop down the little triangle (next to the file) in the Files window. Then right click on the track you wish to extract and click Extract Channels to Mono Files. You can hold down Ctrl/Cmd and select multiple channels if you like too.

Fine, except that isn't what the OP wanted to do. She said "How do I delete the remaining six tracks along with the recordings and save it as a Wav file in Adobe waveform?"

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Engaged ,
Jul 31, 2019 Jul 31, 2019

Thanks Steve! I was adding some thoughts based on the topic title however it looks like this topic is already covered well

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