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Last updated on
28 Mar 2023
- Audition User Guide
- Introduction
- Workspace and setup
- Digital audio fundamentals
- Importing, recording, and playing
- Multichannel audio workflow
- Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
- Importing with the Files panel
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Supported import formats
- Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
- Recording audio
- Monitoring recording and playback levels
- Remove silences from your audio recordings
- Editing audio files
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Session Markers and Clip Marker for Multitrack
- Generating text-to-speech
- Matching loudness across multiple audio files
- Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
- Selecting audio
- How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
- Visually fading and changing amplitude
- Working with markers
- Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
- How to automate common tasks in Audition
- Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
- Frequency Band Splitter
- Undo, redo, and history
- Converting sample types
- Creating podcasts using Audition
- Applying effects
- Enabling CEP extensions
- Effects controls
- Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
- Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
- Adding third party plugins
- Notch Filter effect
- Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
- Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Graphic Phase Shifter effect
- Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Effects reference
- Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
- Delay and echo effects
- Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
- Filter and equalizer effects
- Modulation effects
- Reduce noise and restore audio
- Reverb effects
- How to use special effects with Audition
- Stereo imagery effects
- Time and pitch manipulation effects
- Generate tones and noise
- Mixing multitrack sessions
- Video and surround sound
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Saving and exporting
Level meters overview
To monitor the amplitude of incoming and outgoing signals during recording and playback, you use level meters. The Waveform editor provides these meters only in the Levels panel. The Multitrack editor provides them in both the Levels panel, which shows the amplitude of the mix output, and track meters, which show the amplitude of individual tracks.
You can dock the Levels panel horizontally or vertically. When the panel is docked horizontally, the upper meter represents the left channel, and the lower meter represents the right channel.
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To show or hide the panel, choose Windows® > Level Meters.
The meters show signal levels in dBFS (decibels below full scale), where a level of 0 dB is the maximum amplitude possible before clipping occurs. Yellow peak indicators remain for 1.5 seconds so you can easily determine peak amplitude.
If amplitude is too low, sound quality is reduced; if amplitude is too high, clipping occurs, and produces distortion. The red clip‑indicator to the right of the meters lights up when levels exceed the maximum of 0 dB.
Note:
To clear clip indicators, either click them individually, or right-click the meters and choose Reset indicators.
Effects Rack Input/ Output monitor
In the Effects Rack, the two-level meters display the signal level of the Input (the clips and tracks being routed through those effects) and the Output (the signal level leaving the effects chain).
Much effect will have some impact on the overall level of the signal, either amplifying it or reducing it. By seeing the levels, you can adjust the knobs next to each to fine-tune the amount of signal going into the effects (which can have impact on how the sounds are processed) or exiting the effect (making sure that the effects aren't clipping or are loud enough to be audible).
Play your audio at a custom speed of 1.1x, 1.2x, etc. Use JKL Shuttle Speed to adjust the customized playback speed.
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Select the JKL Shuttle Speed to set the desired speed. Choose from Slow Speed (0.1X), Half Speed (0.5x), Normal Speed (1x), and Double Speed (2x).
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To set customized playback speed, select any desired increment from the JKL Shuttle Speed panel, play the audio, and press the l key the times to achieve the required speed. You can check the Display speed of playback in the playback control.
Customize level meters
Right-click the meters and select any of the following options:
Meter Input Signal
The Waveform editor displays the level of the default hardware input. (See configure audio inputs and outputs.) To quickly enable or disable this option, double‑click the meters.
Range options
Change the displayed decibel range.
Show Valleys
Shows valley indicators at low-amplitude points.
Tip: If valley indicators are close to peak indicators, dynamic range (the difference between the quietest and loudest sounds) is low. If the indicators are spread far apart, dynamic range is high.
Show Color Gradient
Gradually transitions the meters from green, to yellow, to red. Deselect this option to display abrupt color shifts to yellow at -18 dBFS, and red at -6.
Show LED Meters
Displays a separate bar for each whole decibel level.
Dynamic or Static Peaks
Change the mode of peak indicators. Dynamic peaks resets the yellow peak level indicators to a new peak level after 1.5 seconds, letting you easily see recent peak amplitude. As the audio gets quieter, the peak indicators recede. Static peaks retains peak indicators, letting you determine the maximum amplitude of the signal since monitoring, playback, or recording began. However, you can manually reset peak indicators by clicking clip indicators.
Tip: To find out how loud audio will get before you record it, choose Static peaks. Then monitor input levels; the peak indicators show the level of the loudest part.