r/AdobeAudition

Long-time drum recorder here. I mixed my last few tracks entirely in Audition, and a surprising number of people still assume Audition "can't do music." It absolutely can — you just have to treat it like a multitrack editor, not a traditional DAW.

The main elements of the chain that's been working for me:

1. Parametric EQ first — carve the low-mid mud out of the kick and toms before you boost anything. Audition's built-in parametric is genuinely enough for this; I don't reach for paid EQ on drums at all.
2. Gate the snare before compressing — otherwise the compressor is just amplifying bleed from the rest of the kit.
3. Compression last, subtle — roughly 3:1, just to glue the kit together. Nothing heavier needed.

The point of the whole thing: you don't need a plugin suite for a pro drum tone in Audition. The stock tools do far more than people give them credit for.

I recorded a full walkthrough of the workflow with before/after A/B comparisons if you want to hear it in practice:

https://youtu.be/L5J9gr69EMs

Happy to answer anything on the chain — always keen to compare notes with other Audition drum people.

So I just started using Audition, and it's all well. But I can't figure out why this happens. When I record voice on a new empty track with the Recording arm toogle on and only this track selected for some reason audio clip gets copied from track above and linked together with it's copy. When I click "convert to unique copy" and delete the pink one whole program fails and stops and I loose all my work. And it happend 3 times already.