How To Mix with adobe audition

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Hello Everyone I am glad that I have found this site. I notice that you people give alot of helpful information and right now I am having trouble learning how to mix with adobe audition and i have basically everything to make my music sound good.

I have a pre sounus amp and a pre sonus compressor
a MXL mic and Tascam 122 so im wondering how do i mix with adobe audition?
 
Yes I just need alittle more help on using the presets and different things to mix my music down
 
Read every thread in this BB. Then come back and repost your question.

Until then, my answer is:

1) Plug guitar/mic into Tascam 122
2) Open Audition
3) Arm track 1
4) Click record
5) play guitar/sing
6) click stop
7) Arm track 2
8) Click record
9) play guitar/sing
10) click stop
11) click file - export - export as mp3, then proceed to share your wonderful music with the world.
 
Aside from a few subtleties, you will mix in Audition as you would in any other software or hardware, for that matter. Gain and panning are available on each track and VST or Dx plugins can be ran through the "FX" button. So I would advise you to read as much as you can on the forum and internet (and better yet, publications) about mixing. Then, if you're still needing help in certain areas or about certain aspects of Audition, ask us specifically.
 
not being rude, i went thru this at first...

no noob can possibly afford all the racks of equipment that CEP puts at your fingertips. But...its overwhelming at first. Learn what the equipment in real life does, at least the basic idea, then you will have a better idea of what you are doing.

TIP: start with a simple two-track song. A ballad-y vocal and an acoustic guitar track...recorded on a cheap computer condenser mic. WORK with these two tracks, and no others, till you get the hang of it. Never lose those two original tracks...keep each "version" mixed in a separate file, or folder, and compare them...in each version folder of this "song", name each file with the affect or thing you did to it, and growing version numbers...I like T1 and T2...then, i do the Noice reduction, and they become t1.0 and t2.0...if i do something to track1, it becomes t1.1 and so on...

short course: learn how to record the two tracks/signals loud enough, without clipping....then set volume levels, and listen.

then add a little reverb to the vocal, a little chorus to the guitar...and play. Play with one effect after another, but dont save it...you willslowly learn what the effects do to the sound....and never lose those original tracks!!!

keep mixing, and remixing...again and again, with these two simple tracks, until you get the basics down. If you like, I can email you two simple tracks a local musician did for me, and i STILL go back, a few years later, to take another "whack" at them when i am bored...my theory is that if i keep learning how to polish those two turds (tracks...with 1 dollar condenser mic...lmao...) half decent, to where peopel hear the "song" and dont cringe...then i was able to add more tracks to other mixes, and better appreciate better mics, and stuff.

walk before you crawl, grasshopper. Nothing but time and inquisitive "what does this thing do...?" mentality playing, will get you anythignany faster.

get a cheap microphone vocal track, and a matching guitar track...and keep polishign that turd...for a few months at least...you'll get ONE version that stands out from the rest.

then, if you LABELED all those intermediate track versions in the folder "Mix19", you can see what you did to that "cool track" for reference.

dont get frustrated.
 
oh yeah...unless you have something exotic, youre computer speaker suck, not being rude, but you cant mix with them. To at least let you HEAR whats going on int he mix, get 30 ro 40 dollar headphones, its a start. Trust me on this. You have to learn to HEAR stuff and cheapie comp speakers wont do it. Also, i learned the hard way... no more than 40 minutes, and then a 20 minute break...youre eardrums fatigue and it washes everythign out in your hearing...keep the volume reasonably low and it will help. But you gott atake frequent breaks.

when you think maybe you have SOMEthng decent, burn off a CD wav, and play it in the car, the stereo, cheap stereos, expensive ones...a decent mix will sound decent on ALL of them, just like a store bought CD does.

keep allversions, well organized and named, in good order. Hard drives are cheap. so are CD's to burn off old versions and archive them.you will QUICKLY have 10 gig tied up in these two "polishing a turd" tracks..LMAO...of you arenbt doing them enough, hee hee.

oh yeah...and when you post youre "best mix", dont get all mad or crying when some people give it to you straight from the shoulder...if i hadnt taken it on the chin, i wouldnt have gotten anywhere. I STILL aint any good, from an industry standpoint, but...peopel dont CRY any more when they hear my mix, they just make "a face", LMAO...if youre gonna get mad everytime someone whomps on your mix, you might as well hang up the headphones now...it gets brutal, and if you TAKE it like a man, and keep plugging along, and READING stuff, you WILL come along.

and just so you dont think i am a wiseguy, lmao...i aint ashamed to admit it...i KNOW this one professional here that used to WHOMP on my original stuff...i just know he still would...because i aint "all that" yet. Trust me, theres, like, 20 "simons" on here, lmao...take it on the chin and get right back on that mixing board.

Oh yeah...if they still have those mixing contests every couple weeks...do each and every single one of them, religiously, and try to figure out ONE THING out of the MANY things the "judge" tells you constructively. You'll come along steadily. EVerybody does. Remember...people good at this, whether mixing professionals, or long term musicians, have been plahying with this eqipment, boards and effects...for like 20 years a lot of them. This aint one of those overnight projects.

(blush) I ran out and got the "home recording for dummies" book...god help me, it got me crawling, so i had a chance to walk later on...lmao.
 
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