Audio Dialogue Mixing Basics // Adobe Audition 

TABLE OF CONTENTS Using the interface: 01:01 Noise reduction: 01:50 Compression: 05:00 DeEsser: 07:01 EQ: 10:25 Limiter: 13:20

I love that you actually know what you're talking about, and that you're doing the things i would normally do for dialog.

Thanks so much! This was one of the most helpful dialogue mixing tutorials I found on RU-vid. You explained everything so nicely and gave the 'why' which helped tremendously.

Thank You so much for the step by step. Used it in my sound design class and it was super to the point. Keep up the good work :)

Thank you Oliver! I've watched a number of AU videos and yours is very good. You even zoom in on your screen so people can actually see it.

Returning here 2 years after I first saw the video, I realised just now how much I have learnt. I am so grateful for your channel, everytNice tutorialng

Gonna jump on the bandwagon and say how helpful this was. Appreciate the step by step instructions with just enough additional info given about what each effect does that it didn't turn into jibberish, but also gave insight into how things fit together in the audio world.

First video to I've found to explain what these different filters (hard limiter, deEsser) actually do, and how to make them work, in less than half an hour. Than you!!

So I followed this step by step and it's literally all I dream of. I could freaking shout this at the mountain tops about how good this tutorial is and how untouched audio is. No Mountain tops because i'm not tryna get covidy, but yeah. Thanks brother.

Thank you!! I love your explanations on what each numbers do! Super helpful!

Thank you very much for this video! You are good at explaining the steps just enough for us to understand the value of the process.. Would love to see one more in depth, or maybe the whole process, also audio editing for voiceovers from dynamic studio mics. :) Thanks again.

Thanks tremendously for sharing your knowledge and experience. Very detailed without "talking down" or talking over our heads. You helped me with my job, and will share the potential profits with you on Patreon.

Completing my first film and getting my feet wet with Audition. This is by far THE MOST helpful video I've found on RU-vid, or anywhere else for that matter. Looking forward to delving into your past and present videos. Thank you for sharing your invaluable knowledge!

this was amazing, thank you so much. perfect level of detail, no ridiculous commentary. subbed

Thank you so very much for putting this up. I've been trying to up my audio game since I started on RU-vid and this video makes mixing in Audition super easy to follow, understand, and implement. Excellent work. Subscribed.

You're an excellent teacher, Oliver. I'm really grateful for this video and for your communication style. I learned so much and feel empowered to produce better dialogue in my video work (after taking copious notes!). Thank you!!!

Thank you so much for this very clean tutorial!

also you teach in a relaxed manner thus its easy to learn from you, thank you

This has been the best explanation of mixing I’ve come across. I don’t want to be a sound engineer but I do want to know enough to make my audio as good as I can make it so thanks for the lesson.

I dont have funding for post sound bc I spent it all during production, You are saving my film! Thank YOU!!

This awesome man! I am starting a podcast and basically learning the editing process as I go. This is definitely helpful.

Your channel's great!! Thanks so much for your tutorials! They cut straight to the point and they're easy to understand.

So helpful. I gotta make a ton of elearnings right now because of distancing and your videos have been clutch. Subscribed.

Great video!Amazing! Thank you so much for uploading this!😇

Thank you for making this easy to digest. I had kind-of gone cross-eyed trying to figure this stuff out.

Thank you, I was watching a ton of tutorials and while they had some good information, they all basically assumed I knew what certain effects did and understood (I think it's mainly because I was watching tutorials that dealt primarily with radio work rather than RU-vid voiceover, because in Radio you REALLY want that broadcast sound, but on RU-vid, you don't always want that)

Watched close to 10 of these types of videos for Audition trying to fix my audiobook narration files, and this is by far the best one. I still might hire that Lenny B guy to give me a custom chain, but this has helped tremendously. Thank you, Ben Affleck soundalike.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! Very much appreciated!!

Awesome video! So helpful! Thank you and God bless, man.

your audio is perfect, man. You are an artist with this stuff. Brilliant.

Damn good content, well explained and easy to follow! Thanks for sharing!

This video is extremely helpful, thank you!

Still love your tutorials! The calm style and very understandable 👍🏼 I implemented your Workflows (from compressor to limiter) into my work on every project with Dialoge or voice overs within premiere. So you Influenced my audio work sustainably. Thanks for sharing your expertise 🙏🏼 I would be interested in seeing you mix multiple lav mics within one Dialoge. When I do that it’s always a mess, I cannot let both lavs on full volume otherwise I get some kind of echo in the final mix. So I end up keyframing their loudness all the way through 🤦🏻‍♂️ do you have some tips on that?

Thank you for this video. I watched many of your videos in the past. This was the perfect refresh for all the things i forgotten since. I would be interested in e general Tutorial about Audition and its "file-managment-logic". Why is Audition always saves copys of all the files? How to organise it inside a videoproject? That would be very helpful!

Great explanation, thank you.

Amazing video ! Thank you ! 🙏🏾

Thanks, Oliver. Much appreciated.

simple and effective just what we all need

Very good.. Easy n effective

Great video. How do you reduce reverb in a noisy room? I’ve tried using the de-reverb in Audition but it makes the voice sound thin. Thanks

Ha Ha what's with the sinister laugh at 4:37! This cracked me up! Good advice Oliver thanks...

Thank you so much. As I listened to this, I became very intrigued by the story this dialogue was part of. Do you have a link to that? Thank you. 🙏

TNice tutorials comnt from you is legendary. Uncomplicated like your video!!!

Great video!!! Is there any chance to download somewhere some audio files to practice? Only clean dialog recordings?

Great explanations

Hi Oliver Thank you for this great video. I just have one comment: you can do one-click toggle off/on of your presets by clicking on the down on/off toggle instead of toggling on/off each preset... in case you don't know it

Sir Oliver Thank you so much.

Thanks Oliver.

Thank you!

thanks! very good video!

The sample video about Kansas City, Kansas is cracking me up!

Aloha, mahalo 4 the great vid & info!

Just bought ur audition presets. thanks

I like how you explain everything. I get what you're saying about denoising first but when I do that the noise comes back after I increase the amplitude. Also, I changed the hard limiter to -3db but there are still peaks that slightly go over. Is there a way to ensure your track doesn't go over -3db at all?

This is so helpful - thank you! Same process for mixing 32-bit float or would you use the hard limiter first? Do you have any tips for how to match dialog clips? Like if the mic was at a different angle making it tricky to match two audio clips so they sound contiguous?

Hands down best video on editing dialogue. Simple and you explain what the actual plugins are doing. Quick question though, what about normalization? When and why do you normalize?

Found out all I need to know first 3 minute of ur video, stayed because ur pretty cool

This was great. Thanks. If you record your voice over in Premiere and edit it in audtion via the dynamic link you get seperate clips. How do you edit them all at once and than save them at once so they are also saved together in PP?

Awesome man

You should do a "Channel Mixing" on it with "Stereo 2.0" or "Matrixed Stereo" options, since you modify the signal, it needs to be "re-recorded".

Hullo Oliver. Really useful stuff. I'm going to need to watch it again though. A lot of this went over my head. Can I export my file to FCP? Or for that matter LumaFusion? I've resisted coming to grips with Premiere because I've been using FCP since v1. And now I'm thinking that my iPad Pro could become my primary device for everything. Thoughts?

Very helpful!

How about doing the basic Track Laying in Premmiere Pro itself and then importing the whole project onto Audition as a multi track project, work on it and then re-export the stereo output to Premiere? I usually work in Pro Tools, had once tried to fiddle with Audition but at that time it didn't have a keyboard shortcut to zoom in or out the tract and that put me totally off

Very helpful Oliver! thank you! I have some very rough sounding audio that I know can I improve with your teaching!

Hi Oliver, thank you so much fr your tip. I use Audition in CS6. I have 2 tracks I would like to merge int a single one to create dialogues. Is there another program or software out there or how can I do it saving time? Each of my tracks has a 3s pause for each sentense. I can I merge into one track whle respecting the order of dialogue? Thanks for your tip on this Oliver.

Excellent video mate thanks for the upload. Is there a way of doing this and copy and pasting the effects to multiple clips of dialogue? Just wondering because I'm editing my film at the moment and I have lots of short sections of dialogue for the one scene in the same environment that would probably just need to have these effects applied to all but I can't see how to do that and when I edit each small section one by one I'm trying to keep it the same and listening to how it should sound then hearing subtle differences when clips change on my timeline in Premiere. Hope this makes sense and thanks again

How did you get your numbers for the Input boost? How did you get 6dB?

I needed this really bad

When u select a certain portion a d edit that sound, does it apply to my whole audio

this is by far the best video I've seen yet. One question though, my parametric EQ doesn't display the sound while it's playing...like, I can't see the graph the same way it does in the video. How can I change that ?

Can we have a new video in 2022 ?are there new features that make dialogue editing easier especially when there is mic bleed in the recording

Have you uploaded any of your soft?

Do you normalized your dialogue audio before the process? If so, what do you normally normalize your dialogue audio?

I'm still so lost. I record directlybto Audition for my RU-vid. Edit, export to DaVinci. I can't get it to sound any good...

You are great my dear friend... why not create a course or something? would be really happy to buy :)

So why workflow wise you couldn’t go: Noise reduction, eq, desser, compressor and then a limiter? Also, what about normalize? Lots of people seem to do that. What are your thoughts on normalizing?

My setup doesn’t play notes it just holds the soft and it’s really annoying lol any fixes ?

You have no idea how grateful I am for tNice tutorials series

Hi.....is these effect you talked about is different from premiere effect... or they are the same...?

Hi Oliver ! Thanks for those tips, I have a question. Why don't you use the Tube Modelar Compressor to make your sound even and remove that high peaks?

A previous tutorial I followed used the "Normalize" feature after compressing. How come you don't? Thanks for the info!

Hey Oliver! As usual, great content. I was wondering... where in this process would put additional effects. Reverb, for example. I tend to use reverb to settle a voiceover in a mix in cases where the original recording was very dry. I do voice acting work sometimes and I have my own booth for it. It's pretty dead in that area and I have often wondered at which point I should be using reverb to get the most out of it without it effecting the actual sound of the voice. So far, i have been doing my compression, EQ, reverb and then limiter. Would you do this in a different order? I've heard some people put additional effects after limiting but i don't see the point as you can potentionally screw up the amplitude of your signal which the limiter has nicely tidied up earlier in the chain. This could perhaps be sorted out in mastering maybe? For context, I tend to use the studio reverb (Default plugin on audition) with 100% dry and 4-5% wet. So it's a sweetener to settle the voice in to the rest of the mix and it helps me to place the voice in terms of how close or far away it is from the listeners ear in relation to the rest of the mix. I visualize it like this. The rest of my mix is a nice, airy fluffy cloud... with occasional turbulence. The vocal comes in, with it's dryness but has been compressed and EQ'd nicely, like a cement block and disturbs the cloud. So i used reverb to turn that cement block in to a comfortable sofa cushion. Instead of powering through the mix, it makes a dent (szie of which is affected by the reverb used and it's volume) but is light enough to be supported by the fluffy cloud and sit one the airiness of the soundtrack/game audio/whatever i happen to be working on at the time. I would love to know your thoughts on this.

nice

Hey Oliver, that DeEsser setting affects the entire track or just that portion of the mix which was highlighted? Additionally, when is the multitrack function used as I've seen some engineers use that for processing vocals.

I'm trying to figure out how to edit my audio drama i.e. adding effects to make characters sound like they're in a particular room, but I'm really struggling to figure it out :(

what is mic recording

how do i import a whole channel of audio? its pointless to edit just one clip individually in a 5 minute interview that includes 50+ clips.

And advanced part?

Nice headphones 👍🏼 Great info too! Btw, did you lose the audio after the noise reduction? Is that why you were laughing? Lol

I swear no matter what I do my audio always starts out at like -24 when I move it from my H6 to the DAW. Am I just being too cautious with the gain while recording?

Can you help me, in parametic EQ from low med to high, how can i proper use that in singing.

Does order matter when applying these plug-ins.

maybe someone knows, why I can send single audio clip to audition but cant send all the sequence?

Please make a advance settings to make a more professional voiceover.

Can we use a blue tooth headphone for doing post production work?

👌🏽

No normalization? Normalizing to -3db would be more even processing then the hard limiter no? In VO, we always normalize first in the process mix

everyone skips over attack and release, but thx for video

14:36 :P

Thank you for the tutorial, but please don't tell us shortcuts! Too much info for a beginner to take in! Let us learn the shortcuts when we are medium to advanced users. LOVE YOU.