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corym_21
corym_21
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April 25, 2022
Question

Unwanted chorus effect and double recording with multitrack recording.

  • April 25, 2022
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I am trying to record a multitrack voiceover. I record one voice on track one. However, when I record the second voice onto track two, track two simultaneously records track one's voice again as well as the new voiceover from the mic. Now matter how many tracks I use, any audio in other tracks will also be recorded into that track. This causes an unwanted chorus or robotic sound which makes the audio horrible. I uninstalled audition and preferences but that did not work. Any help would be appreciated. 

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
April 25, 2022

What this means is that you are feeding the monitor output directly back into the input you are recording. Exactly how you stop this depends upon your recording setup - we'd need more details, but initially make sure that it's a single input you are recording from rather than anything called 'what you hear' or similar. Obviously you can stop this by muting the first track you've recorded so that it doesn't show up in the output, but that's going to make any sort of synchronisation rather difficult, so that won't help - it's the input you need to attend to on either your sound device if it's external, or your OS settings.

corym_21
corym_21Author
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May 15, 2022

Thanks for your reply. Although I havn't been able to fix the issue, I have learned some things. First, I am recording from an XLR microphone, which is plugged into a mixer, which is in turn plugged into my computer. From messing with settings, it seems audition is recording whatever I'm monitoring through the mix. If the mix volume is to 0 it doesnt record. Similarly, if my computer volume is 0 it also doesn't re-record the other track. I do, however, need to be able to hear the previous track so I can record in sync. It's such a weird problem that I never had before with this set-up. I'm not sure if it's a setting that changed on Audition or on the computer microphone settings. Audition used to never pick up any audio from my computer and now it is. 

 

My recording set up:

XLR Microphone plugged into a maono caster mixer plugged into an HP envy computer running windows 11. I also attached a video showing the problem and screenshots of my settings. 

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