Topic: Adobe gives away Adobe Audition 3

[Todd R]

Using Audition or other software, what would be a good method to make some live music louder and keep it as natural sounding as possible. If I just normalize the track, it still does not have the volume that I would prefer. It has the sound, but I really have to crank the stereo for listening. Tried hard limiting low setting. It made it better. Would compression 2:1 be better then hard limiting ?

Compression at 2:1 is a lot to my ears.  I would try low level compression of about 1.25:1 to 1.33:1, applied at sounds above -9dbFS to -14dbFS.  Play around with settings around there, plus the attack and release settings.  I prefer attacks <20ms (and usually <10ms) and releases in the 40ms-100ms range, though I still keep playing around with those settings to see what I like best.

Compression of around 1.3:1 is pretty mild and sounds pretty natural, but is enough to get the levels louder and also to try to get average levels of the live music you record more consistent.  Compression is probably blasphemy to many here, but I remember reading many years back that Doug Oade applied mild compression for the music he distributed to the masses (again, the 1.3:1 level) -- though he kept the uncompressed for his own listening on his $40,000 playback system or whatever it is. I also find it nice when the music I record that is very similar (eg, jamband/rock/PA-driven electric, whatever you call it) has more consistent levels, since I do sometimes just put things on shuffle play when I'm out on the deck or listening while casually hanging with friends.

[rainingvodka]

FYI I installed Audition 3.0.1 and now my cool edit pro 2.1 won't noise reduce more than 90 minutes of any one file at a time, even after uninstalling BOTH programs and then reinstalling cool edit pro 2.1

damnit.

[Ozpeter]

Hmm, might be worth seeing whether there's any fix for that on the AudioMasters site.

[bdasilva]

 http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

[beeco]

So just to be clear, Adobe Audition 3 does NOT run on win7, right?  Install on an XP machine only?

[Tom McCreadie]

So just to be clear, Adobe Audition 3 does NOT run on win7, right?  Install on an XP machine only?

AA3 has been running fine for me on Win7 x 64, for the last couple of years.

[bdasilva]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/download-adobe-cs2-applications-for-free/

Adobe says it is NOT free.... (but it is)

[Ozpeter]

Adobe have deleted the forum thread in which one of their reps said the download was not free.

[fmaderjr]

So just to be clear, Adobe Audition 3 does NOT run on win7, right?  Install on an XP machine only?

AA3 has been running fine for me on Win7 x 64, for the last couple of years.

If you have 32 bit Windows 7, I think you are fine with just 3.00. AA3.01 has run perfectly for me on Windows 7 x 64. Everything works fine. When I only had AA3.00 installed, it worked for the most part, but there were many issues including that after burning a CD it froze the computer and I needed to reboot. Also I had a lot of problems using batch processing to create mp3's or ogg files to the point where I stopped trying to do that. There are other documented issues with AA3.00 and 64 bit systems as well.

[spyder9]

I loaded this free offer of AA3  on a new PC over the weekend.  I also applied the patch, 3.01 and then registered my copy with Adobe.  Windows 7 x64 box.  No issues to report.  Adobe's giveaway is legit. 

[rjp]

I installed it, but I've become so accustomed to Audacity that I'm not sure I want to learn a completely different workflow. It's not like I'm going to be applying to work for a studio anytime soon.

[alexaa]

Has anyone tried AA3 with Windows 8 64 bit?

[spyder9]

Has anyone tried AA3 with Windows 8 64 bit?

It worked for me on a Win8 32 bit box. 

[aysvideo]

I just downloaded 3.0 and started to install it.  First thing it asked for was my name, and the serial #.  I looked at the config file, and it shows a serial #, but when I typed that in, both with and without the hyphens, it told me that wasn't a valid serial #.  Is there something I'm missing, or not doing properly? 

[mterry]

This is great. Thanks for the heads up OP. easy to use, and fairly quick. Gracias!