Sound lesson

Today we had a tutorial on Adobe Audition and learnt about sound techniques. 

NOTES:

Don't cut sounds, use fade points instead. 

Overlapping tracks creates a natural fade between tracks.

Each manipulation of sound needs to be down subtly and slowly.

Key an eye on levels, going above 0 is unacceptable, DP should be based on distribution:

-Broadcast is normally -12 and has less variation.

-Cinema mix is normally a large range of quiet and loud sounds.  

 The more reverb= More distance/space

Less reverb = Less space

Keywords:

Monophonic: One sound source/one voice/one element

Polyphonic: Many sound sources/many voices/many elements

Monophonic pitch adjusting changes the length of the sound sample, but does not affect its pitch.

Reverb: What happens to sound as it moves around a space; makes sounds echo. 

Mix: How much reverb.

Keys:

Copy: Alt Key- Overlapping arrows, drag =copy

Adjusting volume:  Read- Envelopes- volume. The volume line is yellow, and the volume can be keyframed.  However, editing the yellow line affects the whole track. 

Adjusting Pan: Read- Envelopoes- Pan. This line is blue, and alike to the sound line it can be keyframed and with affect the whole of the track. Moving the line up makes the sound come from the left headphone, moving the line downwards makes the sound come from the right headphone. In the middle sound come from equally both sides. 

Adjusting length and pitch: Properties- stretch-mode-realtime- variespeed. moving the dial to the left increase the length and lowers the pitch, moving the dial to the right shortens the sound but makes the pitch an higher frequency. 

Stretching sound 'visually': Click on the white triangles in the corner of the soundtrack. Drag to stretch soundtrack visually.

Keyframe Pitch: Effects rack- time and pitch-pitch shift- semitones

Reverb effects: Effect rack- Effect track- Reverb-convolution reverb-Impulse-Mix 

Adjusting Reverb: (must do the step before) Show envelopes-convolution reverb-mix.

Adjusting Frequency: Effect track-white triangle- filter eq-parametric equalizer. L = high frequency H= low frequency

Exporting:  File-export-Multitrack- entire session- format: Wav PCM MP3.

Add into a software (premiere pro/after effects) to stitch together video and sound.