Beatnick Boogie (Remix)
The hepcats are back! I downloaded Adobe Audition 3 and worked on the mixdown. The previous version was hard-limited, which is not always pleasing to the ears. On this version, I used a multiband compressor plug-in to bring the levels up. A previous compressor plug-in I tried kind of distorted the lower frequencies of the acoustic guitar tracks. The multiband compressor overcomes this by applying separate compression algorithms to the highs, mids and lows. Oh yeah, I also punched up the "flute" track in a few places. And finally, I encoded the file in mp3PRO, which actually made the file smaller while improving the quality.
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Sounds good, Joe. You said you're using Audition to mix? I'm still using CoolEditPro. Didn't want to pay the extra to go to Audition and take a chance of not getting anything for it. What's your opinion of it?
Craig
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Thanks, Craig. I never owned CoolEditPro, although I did test it once. I had CoolEdit 2000 with the multitrack plugin. I upgraded to Audition back when Audition 1.0 came out. That was later upgraded to Audition 1.5. I installed 1.5 on my Windows 7 computer, but it had some quirks with that OS (like changing the system's color depth every time I ran the program, for some strange reason).. So I upgraded it to Audition 3 a few weeks ago. My opinion is that Adobe is gradually turning Audition into "Photoshop for your ears." Like Photoshop, Audition is very powerful, but it is getting more and more complicated in the process. Also, a lot of the presets for the effects are gone. Maybe you are supposed to be able to recreate them yourself, but I have found that the stock delay effects presets just don't sound as nice as those on CoolEdit 2000 and Audition 1.5. For that reason, I'm glad I opted for the Behringer mixer with built-in effects, although recoring with effects limits your options in "post production." The good news about Audition is that you can download a fully functional 30 day trial version to see if it is what you want and will work on your system.
My next step is to upgrade these $10 microphones and buy some studio monitor speakers. Mixing with cheap computer speakers is a sure-fire way to mess up the mix, which is why I'm having to go back and re-mix everything.
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