- This video will give you everything you need to know
to create your own podcast in Adobe Audition.
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It's really, really simple to get started.
When you load up Adobe Audition,
you're going to want to start mixing things together
to make your podcast sound good,
music, voice and a ton more.
So let's go into the multi-track view
up here in the top left
and get started.
Podcast 001 will be the session name.
Click 'OK'.
This is my first ever episode.
I've got tracks available to me
and now I can start to make a good sound.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna keep it really simple.
I'm going to have a host track here.
I might also reserve track two
for my guest in case I have guests on my show.
And track three I'll use for music.
There we go.
Very, very simple.
The rest of the tracks I don't need
I can delete them by right clicking
going into the track menu
and then delete selected track.
I can also use Option + Command and Delete
or Alt + CTRL + Delete to get rid of tracks just like so
so that we keep things nice and simple.
Okay, on the host track, I can record my voice
and I'm going to do that now by arming this track to record.
Hello, yes, there's my voice.
Perfect.
Good levels, everything's ready to go
and I can eventually insert some music as well.
So to get started,
let's move this cursor right back to the start
and begin my very first episode by hitting record.
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and welcome to my Adobe Audition podcast tutorial.
As you can see, I'm speaking and in real time
my voice is appearing inside Adobe Audition.
This is really exciting.
I'm so glad you came along and decided to listen to my show.
Then I hit the space bar to stop recording
or simply the stop button here.
Then I'll disable that for recording
and we can play back what we just recorded.
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and welcome to my Adobe Audition podcast tutorial.
It works really well, but I think we need music.
So let's go and find some music.
Oh yes, I have some podcast music
from our music radio creative production library.
I dragged and dropped it into the files menu here
and I can drag and drop it onto the music track right here.
And if I need to,
it's gonna tell me to convert sample rates.
It'll do all that automatically for me
and the music is inserted.
Let's listen.
(upbeat music)
Hello, this is Mike Russell.
Okay, music a little bit loud and voice a bit quiet.
We can fix that by selecting both tracks,
right clicking and going for the Match Clip Loudness option.
There it is.
Click that there, click 'OK'.
All the clips will be adjusted in an amplitude there
so that they don't overpower each other.
Hello, this is Mike Russell and welcome to.
Okay, now I'm gonna want to go ahead
and make my voice sound a bit better.
So on the host track in the effects rack
I'm gonna add in a couple of simple effects.
I've actually got some presets that do all this for you
but right now I would simply go in
and add a Filter and Eq, maybe parametric equalizer.
We'll roll off some of the low ends like so
and we'll add a little bit of high end boost
using this high here just to make things a bit crisper.
Hello, this is Mike Russell.
Okay, that's improved my voice a little bit.
I wanna make it louder and clearer
so amplitude and compression dynamics.
And we'll add a compressor
where I'm just gonna push the ratio up to about two
and let's boost the gain as well by about five db.
Hello, this is Mike Russell.
We'll turn it up a little bit more
so it's louder than the music.
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and welcome to my Adobe Audition podcast tutorial.
That's actually sounding really good.
The mix of music and voice is working really well.
I might want to move this around
and have it appear a little bit later
so the music has a chance to play.
So we'll just trim each end
and we can do this
by making sure the time selection tool is selected.
And then at the start, which is track,
now make sure you are only selecting one track
otherwise both tracks move in time.
So let's go ahead and grab this track, drag it in there
drag it in there, and then grab the title and move it along.
Maybe 10 seconds in, we'll have the voice start.
(upbeat music)
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and welcome to my Adobe Audition podcast tutorial.
Now about here we probably want the music to fade out
so we'll delete the rest by selecting
and then deleting not both bits, but just the end bit here.
And then we can add a fade so this music slowly fades out.
We can do the fade however we see appropriate.
That's quite cool.
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and welcome to my Adobe Audition podcast tutorial, yeah.
As you can see, I'm speaking
and in real time
my voice is appearing inside Adobe Audition.
That's sounding really, really good.
If we wanna do a final bit of mastering,
I suggest you go to the mix track
and maybe go to the first slot available, go to Special.
And I quite like in mastering
the preset called Subtle Clarity.
This will sound nice.
Hello, this is Mike Russell and welcome to my.
Boost things up, but it also adds reverb.
Dial that off.
You don't want reverb on your podcast.
Let's play it.
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and welcome to my Adobe Audition podcast tutorial.
Okay, this is sounding great.
I've got a basic template with host presets,
with music added in at the right volume.
If I wanna have exactly the same settings,
the EQ and dynamics for my guest track,
I can just go to the Mixer view here
and drag and drop them over to the guest track as well.
That copies and pastes my effects perfectly.
So now as you can see, they are on both tracks.
So if I've got a host and a guest,
it's gonna sound absolutely brilliant.
Now, if I want to do this every time,
multiple time for episodes 2, 3, 4, 100,
I wanna save this out as a template.
And then to do that, I go to File
and then I export this and I go session as template.
And we'll call this Mike Podcast like so.
Click OK to that.
And then I can close everything down
and every time I want to start a podcast now,
I just click the Multi track view.
Let's call this podcast trying to spell it correctly, 002,
and then we'll look for the template
and look, there's Mike Podcast.
Click OK, and every time now, boom,
it takes me straight into the multi track with my settings.
I can just delete my original recording there,
re-enable to record and say
Hello there, this is Mike Russell
and I'm doing a second episode already of my podcast
because I'm so excited of how quickly I can load a template
in Adobe Audition and get started.
And then all my presets have been added
so I don't need to worry about any of that.
Play it back.
Hello there, this is Mike Russell.
And a nice clear boost to my voice.
I can trim that in to get rid of my little tut there
and fade in at the start.
Hello there, this is Mike Russell
and I'm doing a second episode already.
That sounds really, really good.
So you can see how easy it is
in just a few simple steps to record a podcast,
save a template, come back time and time again
and make audio sound great.
Final step, go to Multi track Mix down session to new file,
entire session and boom!
Your fully produced podcast episode is ready to go.
Obviously, you can do edits.
You can cut out uz, ums,
expletives and stuff like that.
And then you go to the File menu, you can Save As,
and you can save it as an MP3 file right here.
We can call this podcast 002,
maybe strip off the mix down there and save it out.
And that is now ready.
Or it warns me, it's a lossy format.
We know that it's MP3, it's podcast.
That's fine.
That is now saved
and it's ready to upload to my podcast host.
I hope you'd enjoy watching this video.
And remember, there are plenty more videos
about Adobe Audition on my channel.
In fact, one is appearing on the screen right now.
Go and watch it.