Adobe Audition for Audiobook Narration Part 4: Mastering 1 (Setting Up Your Mastering Stack)

This is Part 4 of a series.

Part 1 (Setup): Adobe Audition for Audiobook Narratio...
Part 2 (Recording): Adobe Audition for Audiobook Narratio...
Part 3 (Proofing, Pickups, Metadata, and Exporting): Adobe Audition for Audiobook Narratio...

This video series will teach you to use Adobe Audition for recording audiobooks and (if needed) for editing and mastering too. I’m not an audio engineer, just a working narrator sharing the tips and techniques that work for me.

This particular video is full of details! Please use the links below to skip around as needed.

00:04 Introduction
02:26 Why I master before editing
03:02 Naming and backing up files
08:01 What does it mean to set up a mastering stack?
08:43 EQ/High Pass Filter settings (with FFT Filter)
22:02 Noise Reduction (with Audition's Noise Reduction Process)
30:55 DeEssing (with Audition's DeEsser)
36:04 The 3rd-party plug-ins I use (iZotope RX Standard, Waves Sibilance)
38:49 RX Voice DeNoise
41:51 RX Mouth DeClick
46:06 Waves Sibilance

Future videos will cover mastering (part 2), editing, pickups in mastered audio, and final checks to ensure your files will meet ACX specs.

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