need help big time audition 3

[Bill Hollweg]

2g is not that bad man... When I started mixing I had like 512m or some crazy number- and I've only had 2g for the bast 6 months or so- had a glithch and had to get stuff fixed on my beast which as 1g and a new motherboard.

would more be better- of course- that said, use what ya have and make audio gold!
;-)

[AuralStageStudios]

	Quote:	Sable
	I have two external HD, I think 160g, but am not sure. The first one developed a glitch in it and I lost about 16 hours work. I bitched like crazy and the company sent me another one. sj sigh. sj

Alright, let's see if I can break this down:
Two gigs is plenty to get the job done. The only reason you would need more than 4 GB of memory is if you are recording an entire orchestra, individually miked, during a live performance. Sure, more RAM gives you some padding, but there's a point where it becomes overkill.

You'd be better off investing in an audio interface that has a DSP chip (in layman's terms a chip that takes the audio work away from your main processor). What type of interface are you running?

Mp3s can be opened and edited in Audition. That said I do highly recommend working in a different format as mp3s lose audio information on the top and bottom end, which is okay for a final product, but you lose information everytime you encode. I typically use APE or FLAC format, but there are a number of others.

EQ is your friend. Let me know if I can help.

[Bill Hollweg]

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	Mp3s can be opened and edited in Audition. That said I do highly recommend working in a different format as mp3s lose audio information on the top and bottom end, which is okay for a final product, but you lose information everytime you encode. I typically use APE or FLAC format, but there are a number of others.

Good mention!

I have found that if you do work with Mp3 pump them up to 320k 48000hz and the loss is less noticeable. Or also use wave formats etc.

[Bill Hollweg]

when I first started making this stuff- I was working at 128k 44100...and after mixing and screwing with files over and over <as one does> I found they got hissy from the degradtion mentioned by aural- but at the time I had no idea whyu...Took me forever to find out-LOL These days I mix in wave and save and then once i am happy I mix down to 44100 192k and thget far better results than wayyy back in the day-LOL

Thankfully people at ADT have some knowlegdge to share about and make things easier for newcomers to the mixing realms.

[LarisaNaples]

Um. Does anyone else around here use Soundtrack Pro? And if not, is there a reason why not that I should know about?

[AuralStageStudios]

	Quote:	LarisaNaples
	Um. Does anyone else around here use Soundtrack Pro? And if not, is there a reason why not that I should know about?

I used to use STP when I did productions off Mac systems. Now I use ProTools and Audition, mainly because they're industry standards and I have to keep my chops up and all my toys are VST and RTAS based.

That said, I use Audacity and LMMS on my Linux system.

Use what your comfortable with. The program isn't nearly as important as knowing how to dance with it. With the exception of a few bells and whistles, most software has the basics you need to get a good quality job done.