- If you've ever been interrupted while recording audio
then today, I wanna show you how spectral editing
with Adobe audition is much easier
than you would a spectral.
As seems to be the case
with most of my Adobe audition tutorials,
this is not a new feature.
This is just a new to me feature because sometimes
I just need a little more time to discover these things
but this one is pretty amazing
'cause I'm gonna show you how it works
and I'm also gonna show you
some of its limitations,
and my acting skills aren't great
but let's enact a scenario here.
So I'm gonna click Record in Adobe audition
and you can see my sound waves right there.
And as is the case, while I'm recording this voiceover
I'm just such a popular guy
that I'm gonna get a text message
because that is a thing that happens a lot
mostly because I'm so popular.
Ah, and it happened again, how frustrating?
What is happening now?
So let's replay some of this audio here,
right there and as is the case
while I'm recording this voiceover,
I'm just such a popular guy
that I'm gonna get a text message
because that is a thing that happens a lot
mostly because I'm so popular, ah.
So as you can see, I get the text message notification.
If I zoom in
and try to locate the text message tone specifically,
it's over I'm just such a popular guy
that I'm gonna get...
It's kind of like this whole part,
but the problem is that the text message tone
is not isolated,
it's not something I can just cut out of this audio.
It's interwoven with me talking.
There's not much I could do here,
I guess I could play around with some equalizers
or something to try to find those frequencies
but that's where spectral editing comes into play
and it's just unreal.
So up here in the top, there are these two options
and one of them says, show spectral frequency display,
and if you click that,
it essentially looks like Adobe audition
has turned into predator
but what we're really looking at
is just a different way of visualizing
the audio frequencies.
And since I have such a low manly masculine voice
you can see down here at the bottom
that is where all the low frequencies are,
then you've got mids and then up in the highs
the areas of total black are just silence.
And since most of this is just my voice,
it kind of looks very organic
but there are these several points where
you can see the text message tone occurred,
and that specific tone that I used has two,
seems like it has two frequencies.
There's a part right here
a lower one and then a higher one up here.
So if I play it from here,
you'll hear the text message tone,
such a popular guy
that I'm gonna get a text message.
And now there are a few kind of amazing things I can do,
the first one is at the top now
there's some options that look like Photoshop
within audition and they kind of are,
it's a totally different way
of interacting with and visualizing your audio.
The first one is the marquee tool
where you can just select part of your audio and delete it
just like you would in Photoshop with a design.
Obviously I don't wanna do that
'cause now I've just deleted all of those frequencies
right there in the middle.
And then you can see my sound waves
right there and at...
That does not sound great.
But with something like this
text message tone that is so specific,
I can select that and delete that
and I'll even delete the one up here.
And now it hasn't really messed
with the frequencies too much,
it's only gotten rid of a few very specific ones
and it should sound a lot better.
Over I'm just such a popular guy
that I'm gonna get a text message
because that is a thing that happened.
Sounded like a little strange but it worked.
Another option is to use this healing brush,
and just like in Photoshop and use the healing brush
and it tries to use some kind of
advanced artificial intelligence to decide
how it should fix an image,
it's basically the same thing here.
You can use the brackets to increase
or decrease the size of your brush, just like in Photoshop.
And you can kind of just start painting over
some of those frequencies,
audition will analyze it
and then it will try to get rid of them.
I've had varying success with this,
but when it works
I've had it sound the most natural.
Mostly because I'm so popular.
Ah, and it happened aga...
That's pretty damn good.
So we went from having a disrupting text tone,
so popular ah...
To basically no text tone at all,
because I'm so popular ah
and it happened again.
And that's really all there is to it.
And then you can click the button to go back
out of spectral editing
and just continue editing your audio like normal.
If you're doing this for a video,
you can then export the file
and add it to your video editing software.
Now this will really only work best
with very easily identifiable tones, sounds, frequencies.
That's why I chose the text message tone
because it's so easy to see.
It would work with something like a smoke detector chirp,
maybe a dog bark
a car horn, possibly a siren,
something like that like a quick abrupt noise
that you just need to get rid of
but it won't necessarily work with everything.
So let's try this again with a different example.
I just need you to say hello
to my little friend as I press Record.
And now I'm recording another great piece of audio
and then what?
Who decided to turn on their wacky waving inflatable arm,
flailing tube man right in the middle of my audio?
That's just so inconsiderate
and annoying,
and oh look they finally turned it off.
Now you can hear just my good acting skills again.
This little guy is just fantastic by the way.
So the reason I did that,
if we play this audio back.
Great piece of audio, and then what?
Who decided to turn on?
This sounds much more in line with something
like a leaf blower or a car motor
or something outside that you might actually
have to deal with when you're recording your audio.
And if we click on the spectrum viewer
you're gonna notice a few things here.
So there's a line going down the middle,
that's the main tone of the motor
from the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man
and then beyond that is just my normal audio.
Piece of audio and then what?
Who decided to turn on their wacky waving...
So what you might notice
is before the motor turns on, you can see solid black.
So that means there's actual silence.
Once the motor turns on, there's no solid black
because that sound was just basically every frequency.
So if I go in and I try to just cut out
the main part of the motor,
that's actually not gonna do very much
to get rid of the sound.
Video and then what?
Who decided to turn...
It's still in the background
and obviously I can't go through then
and just try and eliminate all of that static and fuzz
because it's taking up so much space
that it's just gonna make things sound completely bizarre.
And then what?
Who decided to turn on their wacky waving inflatable arm
flailing tube man?
So that wouldn't work.
And in this case obviously you'd have no choice
but to rerecord your audio
which ideally is what you wanna do.
If you can just rerecord,
that's gonna give you the best results
but if there's a very specific thing that happens
you're recording somebody,
you're doing your own voiceover.
There's a very specific sound
that happens in the background
and you're able to identify it.
This is a pretty amazing way of just being able to delete it
and save that audio.
In fact you might even be able to say,
you could say audios
to bad audio.
And speaking of not bad audio
here are a couple of other videos I have made
about Adobe audition with some cool tips and tricks.
This is an amazing program.
There's so much to learn
and it's shockingly easy to understand once you dig into it,
so check those videos out
and have a lot of fun with it
'cause it's really, really just super fun
to play around with.