- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com,
in today's Adobe Audition preferences miniseries video,
I'm gonna look at these spectral displays.
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Now over here, in Adobe Audition,
one of my favorite displays,
the Spectral Frequency Display
will show you all the frequencies inside your audio.
From bass, to mid, to high end sibilance around here.
It's really, really handy.
And in preferences, Control or Command comma,
to bring it up really quickly,
you can actually find
that there are Spectral Frequency Display options here.
First of all, you've got the windowing function
and basically I leave this on Blackman-Harris,
but if I change it, you'll see it ever so slightly
changes the appearance of spectral,
but really not enough for most users
to actually notice a difference.
There is a slight difference there,
seeing a slight change to how Spectral Display looks,
but default is Blackman-Harris.
What you really want to know is the spectral resolution,
bring it down to 32 and it goes all blocky and 8-bit,
and it's quite hard to work with,
although it might highlight some of the problem frequencies
a little bit more for you.
If you go really high end,
like up here to 4096, you'll see you get a more
detailed Spectral Frequency Display.
You're seeing a lot more resolution there, essentially,
in the Spectral Frequency Display.
I'm gonna stick though, with 512, the default.
Decibel range is helpful,
If you find that you're not seeing enough information,
pump this up and it makes it brighter,
you can see much more information now, there,
or bring it down,
but the more you bring it down, the less you're gonna see
you're only gonna see the really strong frequencies.
Again, 132 is a happy medium on that.
Something I find really handy is showing the grid lines,
on here, you can see them very faintly.
Turn the opacity up and look at this,
this can be super helpful
for identifying sibilance problems.
For instance, you can follow these grid lines along
on this little S sound in my voice, pss-pss-pss-pss-pss
and I can say, okay the sibilance is occurring
between 10K and 5k,
then I can set up a de-esser using those grid lines.
A very easy way to measure
on the Spectral Frequency Display.
Generally, I leave those off
but there may be times you want to switch them on.
Play only selected frequencies
when Spectral Frequency selection exists.
What this means is if I grab the marque selection tool,
and I select just the sibilance,
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it plays just the sibilance.
The same as if I just select some of the bass on my voice-
- [Playback] Buh-Buh-Buh-Buh-Buh.
- It only gets the bass,
whereas if that's unticked, it'll just play everything.
- [Playback] Buh-Buh-Buh-Buh-Buh
- So really I like to have that ticked,
'cause it helps me to zero in on-
- Buh-Buh-Buh. - problem frequencies there.
So moving over, that's the Spectral Frequency Display,
this box here is for the Pitch Display,
which is a different kettle of fish altogether.
It's this one up here,
and basically shows you the musical notes of your audio.
Now this is just speech show,
there's not much music going on here,
but if you are recording a singer, for instance
this display can be super handy to you.
And again, very similar to what we had before,
with the frequency display,
you got the resolution, bring it to 32.
It goes all blocky and strange in my opinion.
Bring it up higher,
and the resolution gets more detailed, of course,
but again I like to leave this around the default,
around, you can put it around 128,
that's probably a little bit too low,
so you can go up to,
whatever really is suitable for you.
1024, that kind of makes it nice and clear.
But actually, in my opinion,
probably around 204 rate
is gonna be about the sweet spot there,
for your Spectral Pitch Display.
Decibel range again, hots it up or cools it down.
So again, just leave that on default.
In my opinion, it works pretty well, 75 DB.
And show the grid lines,
you can see the grid lines are on.
This is quite handy.
You can turn up the opacity, if you like,
and then you can see all the notes over here.
You got G3 G sharp, A3, all of that.
And you can just follow the grid lines across,
and it's super, super handy.
I usually leave these on 30, the default,
that's absolutely fine for me.
And that is Spectral Displays, in a nutshell,
inside the Adobe Audition preferences menu.
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