1. Make your own podcast and learn how to edit it with Adobe Audition: the basic steps to record, mix, and exp.
2. How to start recording your own podcast show. Podcasting is a relatively new medium. It’s also a vast one. It’s everything from NPR and the BBC uploading their radio shows to iTunes to a single independent creator telling a story one episode at a time.
3. Editing podcast audio using Audition can seem daunting, especially for someone who might not have edited before. Make life a little easier by learning shortcuts, powerful editing tools, and other simple ways to make you shows sound better in Adobe Audition.

Adobe Audition is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite and yes it's a paid program ($20.99USD/Month - Since it's the most popular and the one we use for editing our own and our clients podcasts, we wanted to teach you.

Grab a microphone, some headphones, and fire up Adobe Audition – we’re going to podcast! Ubuntu on macos.

If you chop out anything in the middle of your show, you’ll need to do a different kind of DELETE – in Audition it’s called a RIPPLE DELETE. This will remove the selection and slide everything after it over so there is no gap.

Let’s find a mess up in the show and ripple delete it. If you haven’t slid your tracks around, you should find it around the 31m,41s mark, right after Justin says “jump through those hoops” he starts mumbling and gives up on the thought and asks YOU THE LISTENER to cut it out. He really does mean you! He gets back on track at 31m57s.

Adobe Audition For Podcasting

Use the TIME SELECTION tool to select the region between those approximate times. Use the waveforms as your guide, and ZOOM IN if you need to!

select that mess up for a RIPPLE DELETE

Now let’s RIPPLE DELETE! Use EDIT > RIPPLE DELETE > TIME SELECTION IN ALL TRACKS Dual boot mac os on pc. to make this happen.

RIPPLE DELETE from the menu

You’ll want to make sure you use ALL TRACKS otherwise you’ll only delete one track’s area and pull it out of sync.

Now let’s slide our intro song in there to TRACK 3. If you PLAY it you’ll see it’s super loud compared to the voices! Let’s go ahead and turn it down using the track’s tools. You’ll find the VOLUME knob just under the TRACK NAME:

turn down that music!

-11dB is probably pretty good.

Next thing – I think the song ends too early. Justin doesn’t start speaking soon enough after it fades out. Let’s go ahead and MOVE our music to the right until it’s happily half-faded out as Justin starts the show:

the music has been moved to fade as Justin starts!

Now let’s RIPPLE DELETE this new 1.5sec gap we just created up front. Remember how? SELECT that 1.5sec region, then RIPPLE DELETE ALL TRACKS. You’re getting the hang of this!

TWO MORE THINGS:

Edit Podcast Adobe Audition

1 – Let’s add the theme song to the end of the show. FN-RIGHT ARROW to the end and drag the song from the FILES tab onto Track 3 at the end. Place it where Justin wraps it up “Podcasting with Justin Edwards.” around 32m16s (if you chopped out that first 1.5sec).

the song repeated at the end

No need to adjust volume again, since the adjustment we made already changes it for every file that lives on that track.

2 – Speaking of adjusting volume levels, you may have noticed the discrepancy between JUSTIN and MIKE’s tracks – Justin is much louder than Mike. Go ahead and give Mike’s track a boost. 6dB should do.

Podcast Sound Adobe Audition

We should spend some time talking about EFFECTS – adjusting EQ, adding a COMPRESSOR and a LIMITER, but we are just about out of time here for an already long tutorial.

BUT THERE’S GOOD NEWS:

Listen to the sample podcast we’ve been working on. Mike gives a great overview of the effects he uses for his shows.

We also have our own tutorial on it here: Audition FX Tutorial

Adobe Audition Podcast Preset

Let’s get your show out of Audition and into MP3 land! To export your session use the menu and go FILE > EXPORT > MULTITRACK MIXDOWN > ENTIRE SESSION

exporting through the menu

This will open the following window:

export window

We’ll want make some changes to their defaults.

• I like to export to my Desktop so the file is easy to find. Use BROWSE to do this.
• Change the FORMAT. Use the dropdown box to choose MP3.
• CHANGE the SAMPLE TYPE. This will open a window:

SAMPLE TYPE options

• Change the SAMPLE RATE from “Same as source” to 441000.
• Change the BIT DEPTH from “Same as source” to 16. Hit OK.
• Lastly, CHANGE the FORMAT SETTINGS. It will open this window:

MP3 FORMAT SETTINGS

• Change the BITRATE to 96Kbps. This is because we just have a one-channel MONO file. A stereo show would double this since it has two channels. Hit OK.
• Hit OK in the export window and Audition will do its thing!

Go find your file on the desktop. Voila! Congratulations, you’re a podcaster!

Special thanks to Michael Edwards of the Sunrise Robot podcast network for his guest spot in our tutorial files! You owe it to yourself to check out his shows at SunriseRobot.net.