Sidechain Compression Audio Ducking - Adobe Audition (TUTORIAL)

[@Paddy_Mac]

Hey there Craig - 6 years on and this video is still giving up the gold!

[@songsbydaniel]

Is there a way to do this inside of Premiere pro without using the Essential Sound panel?

[@Corgisword]

Thanks man! I used this on a podcast and it really helped with multiple mics in the same room

[@Flying_Orb]

Is there any way of reversing the ducking? So that the second track increases in volume with the first track signal, then goes silent when it disappears?

[@GuyFoxGuyFoxGuyFox]

Yes but instead of compression you need expansion

[@trialconsultant]

Thank you!! Great advice that made the soundtrack I was creating just right for my video!! Very much appreciated!!

[@RadioTrama]

This is absolutely great and easy! Thank you!

[@Falc0ln]

Hi, great tutorial. Can you please tell me is it possible to do this on live broadcasting? I dont know how to add diffrent audio source like default windows sound (live music etc.)

[@Mondo_182]

This was great! Literally followed appoint and successfully created a track for my VO demo!

[@HammadATTARI]

Your method is far better than ducking. I am using your method in all my videos. Thank you.

[@vi_res]

This is ducking.

[@CryptidMom]

Is... is that music from The Arcana that I hear??

[@sammymCa]

Hey! I have a voice over, background noise, and a soundtack. How can I duck the audio from the voice over to the sound track, as well as the background noise? It only seems to let me side channel the voice over to ONE other track, not both. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[@MarkVO]

Fantastic, thank you! It's a shame you can't just do it within the effect plug-in but luckily you're here!

[@andor3442]

What happens if you need to sidechain a specific frequency tho?

[@binarystarproductions7763]

the way you say INSIDEEE, Adobe audition that could be a song dude that fits so well tis hilarious at the same time

[@hands6292]

This was very helpful. Thank you so much!!

[@LittleFellaDynamics]

Great I was hoping there would be a simple quick side chain compression tutorial and viola :) >> see even 4 and a half years later this video is still super useful cheers!

[@marstaszewski]

is it possible to make it start decrasing music volume earlier (for exaple 1 second BEFORE speech starts), so it's not as harsh? Same goes for increasing volume after voice ends. Which parameters shoud I change to achieve that?

[@LatinBreeze]

Yes, increase the attack and play around with it. the higher the attack the longer it will fade down for.

[@d.Madhav27]

Sooo helpful!...thanks!

[@Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial]

This doesn't work for me, side chain doesn't feed into the compression. When I set up compression it works fine and the audio is reduced, but when I setup sidechain, it does nothing, the audio does not duck and audio is just permanently reduced. Instructions are simple enough so I have no idea what the problem is. Could NOT get this working so just did the side-chain in Cubase instead.

[@QuestlordJames]

This has helped my issue, but hasn't eliminated it. My problem is that I need to completely mute a 2nd voice track when someone on the 1st is speaking, but have the 2nd track be at normal volume when the 1st track is silent. I'm trying to eliminate some crosstalk between two microphones that were placed too close together for voiceover.

[@JuicyTuts]

Not sure this is the best solution for your problem, but if you wanted to use this you could just set the ducking a bit more aggressively. So instead of ducking -12 to -24dB, it actually ducks so much that the track is silent. Haven't tried it myself but might help. Again, not entirely sure this is the answer to this particular problem. It might sound weird if voice 2 is in the middle of saying something when voice 1 talks.

[@JeffreyIsbell]

I've never tried to solve your problem. But it seems like one ought to be able to apply the same effect back and forth across the two channels. IF you are trying to force two mic channels to "take turns" it might work. You'd have to adjust settings carefully to find the right amount of effect. OR, (a different approach) you could put noise gates on each channel and just have them clamp down to zero as soon as the level drops below a certain point (threshold). Tell us what happened.

[@GavinGavinMcGavin]

I know this comment is old, but what you need is a noise gate with a high threshold.

[@andyg106]

Just a thought, maybe what you want is a noise gate on a side chain set to just above the level of your cross talk. That way if somebody is talking into the mic for real you'll get them talking as well but you won't get an annoying jammy gate when someone is speaking dynamically.

[@adedimberline]

Great, simple tutorial. Cheers

[@miczell]

I love you, man! :) Thanks a ton for sharing this!

[@HistoriasRealesParaNoDormir1]

despues de 8 años esto me sirvió mucho, gracias

[@OlemVolle]

04:34 I tried tweaking it to my likeness, but it looks nothing like me. The tutorial helped me sidechain though :) so thanks for that!

[@AreyasureCrew]

underrated. Thanks a bunch!

[@Igor.Kozlov]

Thank you! It simply works!

[@mastamove]

Yes, was looking for that one. Works perect, thanks a lot!

[@OlafBodde]

Thanks mate! works like a charm!

[@Disendant]

Hmm unfortunately, I don't have anything in the side-chain bar other than 'Add Bus". I did make a new bus that connects to the dynamics processing but when placing my soundtrack, it just creates a new track.

[@thomastarchine8111]

Same here. any luck??

[@NorthernAir2020]

Look in your Effects Rack window, there's a section that lets you choose between Clip Effects and Track Effects, switch to Track Effects for the rack.

[@NorthernAir2020]

@@thomastarchine8111 In the Effects Rack window, there's a section that lets you choose between Clip Effects and Track Effects, switch to Track Effects for the rack

[@StanislaW_DementeW]

Спасибо! Ты мне сэкономил кучу времени.

[@POLYAKOV_VOICEOVER]

Thank you!

[@jaggo86cu]

thanks 🎉🎉🎉!!

[@ScreenSpark-rj7un]

thanks

[@leanvlogs]

Thks bro!

[@eagleearsstudios3605]

voice sounds good !

[@zeroproductionsHD]

AWESOME! thank you!

[@Chempo]

Nice, thanks.

[@PolymerJones]

lol this is like not working for me, so complicated hah

[@trevordane4605]

Try pausing while editing it.

[@asianguy6174]

Nobody explains this well. The terms are used as being separate, as being the same or they’ll say side chain is a way to achieve auto ducking

[@Trioptic3D]

nice!

[@PavelChapanov]

hank you!

[@nagyvk1]

Excelent video! But that music, OMG... irritating :)

[@danielsmph]

you freak as hell for calling your channel juicy tuts... great tutorial tho🫡

[@3rdobserver205]

Nice tutorial! In my opinion Adobe Audition is the worst DAW ever when it comes to use advanced techniques and midi support. Its easy to use Audition interface but it is too simplistic for arranging channels-ports, send/return, sidechains and parallel comp. For some plugins inside Audition the configuration is impossible...so I also use Reaper.