Adobe Audition for Audiobook Narrators Series | Course Bundle

This course bundle includes the following courses:

Adobe Audition for Audiobooks 2024 

Optimize your ACX audiobook narration and production workflow with George Whittam!

Recording and editing an audiobook for ACX can be quite the challenge! You might find yourself spending long hours in the booth and even longer ones polishing your recordings. When you throw in tight deadlines from publishers, it can really keep you on your toes!

Luckily, George Whittam has developed some fantastic techniques to help you record, edit, proof, and master your audiobook recordings efficiently, minimizing mistakes and audio issues.

Prerequisites:

• none

Agenda:

• Introduction, Goals, and Agenda
• Important default settings to modify
• What’s useful in the latest version in 2024 (if anything!)
• Using keyboard shortcuts
• Customizing layout for efficiency
• Organizing files and folders
• Mic technique and acoustics
• Acceptable noise levels
• Setting the best recording levels (then forget it!)
• Recording techniques: Straight record, clicker, Punch and Roll and Punch-in Insert
• Processing plugins to remove noises: Mouth, equipment, and environmental 
• The QRX sheet, keeping track of corrections (template provided) 
• Working with a proofer
• Editing in pickups
• Mastering workflows
• Mastering to publisher specs with Racks and Batches (Starter Rack provided)

Adobe Audition Dynamics 

Learn to use all of the dynamics processing plugins included with Adobe Audition CC (2017 and newer). Dynamics processing controls how much your voice and room tone will change in volume from the loudest to the softest sounds. For example: You can keep those “spikes in your waveform” at bay with a compressor, tame sibilance with a de-esser, and make the finished audio sound louder with a limiter.

George will show you how to tune each plugin with examples you can hear in full studio quality.

You’ll know how to set your plugins quickly for good results, and have a better understanding of what controls in each plugin down and how they affect the sound.

Here are all of the different dynamics plugins you’ll learn in this training module:

• Amplify

• De-esser

• Dynamics

• Dynamics Processing

• Fade Envelope

• Gain Envelope

• Hard Limiter

• Multiband Compressor

• Normalize

• Single-band Compressor

• Speech Volume Leveler

• Tube-modeled Compressor

Adobe Audition Equalizers

Learn to use all of the equalizer and tone processing plugins included with Adobe Audition CC (2017 and newer). EQ processing controls how different parts of your voice sound, from low chest resonance to crips detail. For example: Reduce annoying “rumble” with a high-pass filter, add richness to the voice with a graphic EQ, and make surgical adjustments with a parametric EQ. 

George will show you how to tune each plugin with examples you can hear in full studio quality.  You’ll know how to set your plugins quickly for good results, and have a better understanding of what controls in each plugin down and how they affect the sound. 

Here are all of the different EQ plugins you’ll learn in this training module:

• FFT Filter

• Graphic EQ (10, 20, and 30 bands)

• Notch Filter

• Parametric EQ

• Scientific Filter

• Mastering EQ

• Vocal Enhancer

• Bonus: Multiband Compressor (a secret EQ!)