Adobe Audition - this should be simple.

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Help! I work at an AM radio station and recorded a live event in stereo
with my announcing on the left channel and the event sound on the right
channel.

Am now back in the studio and need to adjust the volume between the two
channels. Would like to use the same volume envelope that is available
in multitrack view in edit view. Is this possible? Tried to use the
amplify envelope but I need to have some of the background noise on top
of my annoucing and all I seem to find is crude volume adjustments.
(ex. 3db gain 3db cut, etc.)Much easier to just drag the volume levers
where I want via the adjustable volume line.

If this is not possible, what is the best way to seperate out the
channels and insert as two seperate tracks in multitrack view so as to
be able to easily edit volume levels.

Thanks!!

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"AlaskaSnowRIder" <AlaskaRadio@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Help! I work at an AM radio station and recorded a live event in stereo
> with my announcing on the left channel and the event sound on the right
> channel.
>
> Am now back in the studio and need to adjust the volume between the two
> channels. Would like to use the same volume envelope that is available
> in multitrack view in edit view. Is this possible? Tried to use the



I don't know about in Audition, but assume it would be similar to other
competent appliactions. You either need to split the stereo event into two
mono events, and use volume envelope. Or use a Pan envelope to adjust the
relative levels.

geoff

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"AlaskaSnowRIder" <AlaskaRadio@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Help! I work at an AM radio station and recorded a live event in
> stereo with my announcing on the left channel and the event sound on
> the right channel.
>
> Am now back in the studio and need to adjust the volume between the
> two channels. Would like to use the same volume envelope that is
> available in multitrack view in edit view.

Why not just use the balance envelope? It's the green line running down the
middle of the channel.

>Is this possible? Tried to
> use the amplify envelope but I need to have some of the background
> noise on top of my annoucing and all I seem to find is crude volume
> adjustments. (ex. 3db gain 3db cut, etc.)Much easier to just drag the
> volume levers where I want via the adjustable volume line.

> If this is not possible, what is the best way to seperate out the
> channels and insert as two seperate tracks in multitrack view so as to
> be able to easily edit volume levels.

There are a number of ways to separate a stereo channel into two mono
channels. The one suggested by Craig happens to be the one I usually use
for small files (say 5 minutes or less).

Another approach is to use the facilities that are exposed when you press
F11 in Edit View. You convert the file into a mono file 100% composed of
just the L channel and save it under one name, and then you undo that, and
convert the same original file into another mono file 100% composed of just
the L channel and save that under another name. Then you close the file,
leaving the stereo original intact.

> Thanks!!

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"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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> In article <lLOdnQtYmti1UoDfRVn-sg@comcast.com> arnyk@hotpop.com
> writes:
>
>> Why not just use the balance envelope? It's the green line running
>> down the middle of the channel.
>
> Gosh! That's cool.

Not only that, it works. But the consequnces of doing this when the mixdown
file only has one channel that is of interest may not be what he wants or
needs. My recollection is that Audition only mixes down to 2 or more
channels. If you want to mix down to mono, you mix down to a stereo file. Of
course you can easily mix so that only one channel in that file is of
interest. But, that changes the meaning of the balance envelope.

> But it probalby would make more sense to create
> separate tracks for the music and voice, control them individually,

Been there, done that but only because it fits with how my mind works. And
of course I only mix to stereo, not mono.

When I do live sound I use a line mixer to control split tracks. The line
mixer has a separate level and balance control for each of the two channels
coming out of the 2 CD players and 1 tape machine. The line mixer's output
is connected to a stereo channel on the mixer, but only the L+R output of
the mixer is hooked to the main speakers. I end up with mono, but by a
vastly different route.

As several have pointed out there are several ways to use Audition to split
a stereo track into 2 mono tracks.

> then sum them to mono (even a stereo file with the same thing on left
> and right channels) and spit that out of the computer in a "ready for
> air" format - probably a CD.

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:17:11 -0000, "Big Craigie"
<bigcraigieYOURCLOTHES13@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Put the I cursor anywhere near the top within the left channel and click.
>The right channel should now be greyed out. On a PC use Ctrl A to select all
>and the whole left channel will be selected.

There are a couple of shortcuts for this:

1st: Ctrl A to select the entire recording, both left and right.
2nd: Ctrl L to select the left channel - Ctrl R selects the right one.
3rd: "Save highlighted selection" to file (the icon for that is the
black floppy).
4th: Repeat for the other channel.

HTH
Norbert

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In article <vI6dnQenWuyNmIPfRVn-ug@comcast.com> arnyk@hotpop.com writes:

> My recollection is that Audition only mixes down to 2 or more
> channels. If you want to mix down to mono, you mix down to a stereo file. Of
> course you can easily mix so that only one channel in that file is of
> interest. But, that changes the meaning of the balance envelope.

I'd just Y (or mix) the two channels together if I wanted mono. As I
recall, this was for AM broadcast.

> > But it probalby would make more sense to create
> > separate tracks for the music and voice, control them individually,
>
> Been there, done that but only because it fits with how my mind works. And
> of course I only mix to stereo, not mono.

I was playing around with stereo track splitting in Audacity when I
was thinking about recording mid and side mics on the Jukebox,
transferring them to the computer, then mixing them to left/right
stereo. For that, I needed to split the two channels of the stereo
file so I could invert one in the mix. Normally I do this with
hardware, but I was thinking about doing it in the field, running the
mid mic (by itself) to the PA, and not having a real mixer that would
allow me to add and subtract the mid and side mics to get L/R.


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