• Adobe Audition

  Simple Levels Question

  Posted by Derek Hader on April 8, 2008 at 5:44 pm

  Hey,

  I’m a video guy wandering blind thru audio land, and I’ve been asked to set some VOs that I have to a specific range.

  “The audio should remain unmixed on the master but should be mixed on the video that is being rendered. Standard volume for exporting the audio files should peak @ -3 and bottom at -6.”

  I’ve been playing around with Audition and Sound Booth, but am not confident I’m doing this right.

  Can someone please give me a quick explanation how to do this?

  Thanks!

  -Derek

  Derek Hader replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Emmett Andrews

  April 9, 2008 at 3:27 am

  That doesn’t make any sense at all. For something to meet that criteria, the audio would have to be so compressed it only had a dynamic range of 3dB, in which case, you wouldn’t be able to understand the words. So my suggestion is to simply normalize to -3dB because whoever gave you those instructions has no concept of audio or at the very least, gives very poor instructions.
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  Derek Hader

  April 9, 2008 at 4:02 pm

  Yeah, it sounded quite odd to me too.

  Thanks for confirming what I assumed. I’ve decided the hard limiter effect works for me here.

  -D

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