- Okay, you simply must see my three favorite vocal effects
in Adobe audition.
They're really easy to apply
and I'm gonna take you through them now.
Here is Adobe Audition
and if you've never recorded before
it's as simple as hitting this big red button.
Click "okay" to the prompt...
Hello, this is Mike Russell
and I'm gonna show you some really cool audio effects,
inside Adobe Audition,
that you can apply to your voice.
Okay. So, a lot of people really sort of wonder,
"well, how is it possible to do audio effects easily?"
I'm gonna show you some really simple ways and
I'm hardly even gonna touch the effects menu
'cause, most people get really scared when I open
up effects and I go
"go to diagnostics filter and EQ, modulation,
chorus/flanger, flanger, phaser...
and then change the modulation rate"
And it's like, "oh my goodness
there's far too much information there!
Please keep it simple, Mike".
So I'm gonna keep these
as three simple audio effects that you can do
without racking through menus and changing pre-sets,
okay?
This is how I'm going to keep this video very simple
for you to follow.
So I'm gonna start a new multi-track session.
Don't get too worried about that,
we'll just call this VOFX and click... Okay.
So there it goes and there's my recording.
I'm gonna drag it into track one.
So let's play it back (playing a recording) "Hello,
this is Mike Russell and I'm gonna show..."
now I can of course boost the volume by changing this.
(playing louder) "Hello, this is Mike Russell..."
and now the first audio effect is really simple.
I'm gonna select (playing the recording) "this
is Mike Russell".
[Mike]: "This is Mike Russell", and I'm going to hold
down the "alt" or "option" if, you're a Mac user,
and "shift keys"
and then, grab the title and copy it down once and twice.
So triple track it.
(playing the recording) "This is Mike Russell..."
just made it a bit louder, didn't do much else.
Now I'm gonna zoom right in by moving my scroll wheel
as I go onto the timeline at the top
and I'm gonna nudge this slightly to the right
and this slightly to the left, "this is Mike Russell..."
and I can do it more if I want more of an effect.
"This is Mike Russell...".
Now, that sounds pretty cool as it is,
but then if I grab these blue lines and move them one
to one side and one to the other
side..."This is Mike Russell..."
I get a really cool chorus effect.
Very, very simple to do.
And by the way, that same thing can be achieved,
instead of grabbing the blue lines
you can apply a track wide pan
by going left over here and right over here on this task.
"This is Mike Russell..."
Sounds really cool, doesn't it?
Now, "...and I'm gonna show you..." another thing
a lot of people are ask me is,
and I'm gonna cut this little bit out now
by hitting "control" or "command" "K" around this bit...
"so..." is how to create that old radio style sound.
"...and I'm gonna show you..." so again
without using major effects menus
I'm just gonna open up the essential sound window
which, actually, usually opens up by default
when you first start audition, I'm gonna to tell audition
that this single block here is dialogue
and then I'm gonna go to EQ and I've got a few options here
but I think Intercom is quite cool,
and I can take this from zero
"and I'm gonna show you..." up to 10
"and I'm gonna show you..."
and there's an old radio effect,
if you don't like that one, you can go for old radio,
"and I'm gonna show you..." crank the amount
to 10 "and I'm gonna show you..." and you can dial it
up and down "and I'm gonna...", so you can pull it down.
"I'm gonna show you..." and kinda lighten it off,
and there's also on the telephone as well
which is really cool.
"and I'm gonna show you..."
"and I'm gonna show you..." so instantly, there,
you can do things really, really quickly and
really, really easily. So
I think we've done two out of the three effects
and I think you'll agree they're pretty easy,
gonna close down essential sound
for the final one,
and it's gonna be here "some really cool audio effects..."
So let's take some really cool audio effects.
And again, we're gonna do the same thing as before "alt"
or "option" and shift,
we're gonna copy this down, copy this down,
this time we are not gonna nudge up or down
those...
audio tracks.
We're not gonna move them out of time.
In fact, I'm gonna take these both hold shifts,
so they lock in time, move them onto these two
separate tracks,
and I'm, similarly, gonna go to my effects rack
and add on the pitch shifter to the first track
and I'm gonna pitch down ever so slightly maybe by minus two
and go to the second track, add on a time and pitch, pitch
shifter and nudge it up a few semitones,
maybe two, and then play back
"some really audio effects..." and you get that creepy
crazy clown.
If you wanna make it stereo, you can pan left pan right
"some really audio effects..."
So let's remind us, we've got a chorus effect,
We've got a radio Intercom effect and we've got a
pitched effect as well.
"Hello, this is Mike Russell, and I'm gonna show you
some really cool audio effects..."
And that was all done within the space of about
five minutes.
And it was done very quickly, indeed, without
riling through major presets or effects menus.
(music plays)