Multitrack sounds different from waveform

[bradthames]

I'm making a video voiceover for the first time using Audition, so I'm quite new to it.

I recorded using the Waveform view and it sounded perfect.  However, I then entered Mulitrack view to add a music bed, and now the voice track includes the sounds of my breaths and some other background hiss, and it's really loud and distracting.  I go back to Waveform view, and the breathing is gone.  How do I get the track in Multitrack to sounds like it does in Waveform?  

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

I'd guess that you are trying to use the Podcast template, which has all sorts of effects pre-enabled. Start again using the default template, and you'll have 6 tracks set up with no effects on them, which in my experience is a much better starting position!

[bradthames]

That's exactly it - thanks! I'm glad it turned out to be something simple.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Actually, all of the templates that have suspicious-sounding names have a load of effects pre-applied to them - not just the podcast one. But generally it's the podcast one that catches people out, because usually it's ab initio users who seem to think that it might be appropriate, without realising that really, it's a bear-trap. Personally I'd as soon be without it - just to stop the regular questions and complaints about it!