Comments on: Audacity Vs Adobe Audition in 2024: Best DAW to Record & Edit?

By: Maximus S.

Maximus S. — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 06:57:07 +0000

Excellent summary to help people who don’t understand the power of Audition to understand it. What was left out was the ability to mix in 5.1 surround in 32 bit as well the ability to add surround reverb then reconvert it to a 32 bit stereo file. Thus, for more advanced recording engineers and producers, go with Audition as the learning curve at the expert level is not there. Basic recording not knowing much, why say no to a free open source program called Audacity? Remember to tag your files in Audtion as the metadata is there if ever there is copyright theft online in an MP3 or AAC file for forensics in the nasty copyright fight between lawyers and the thieves …

I use an iPad Pro for many of my basic tracks with Garageband and import into my Mac and go from there. Everyone does what works for them, and this works for me using just the iPad’s microphone, as its about microphone placement just as much as quality. However, this is not very good with a live drum kit and a drummer who hits them cymbals hard as good one will do, the bleed is difficult to balance, so there I will use a Mixer and mic the drummer. I left a link for being able to do that and how Audtion can sound in editing. By Spring of 2020 surely I will have plenty of new tracks to showcase a Mackie board, Focusrite sound card and Shure and Audix microphones. Consider the music a teaser of what’s about to hit.

Keep the music alive for the 22nd century! Later

Shaun

By: Aditya

Aditya — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:53:26 +0000

Reason for this discovered…..

Audacity exports flac files at a resolution which is predefined in Preferences (Mac OS) and does not give an option to set the sample rate in the export option screen whereas Audition permits you to define both the sample rates as well as bit rates while exporting out.

In the subject case, Audacity had a sampling rate of 44.1Khz predefined in preferences, so the output file was actually 24/44k resolution which is roughly half of the 24/96K.

So in case you are using Audacity, please do set up the resolution in preferences before exporting any audio.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:44:55 +0000

Working on a sample audio file for 24/96k resolution in flac format, I find that the export option produces a flac file of almost half the size by Audacity (best quality option) than a corresponding one by Audition. Any plausible reason for that ? Both exported files are of 24/96k resolution in flac format.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 06:21:55 +0000

Thank you so much for your summary. That was useful.

By: Lindsay Harris Friel

Lindsay Harris Friel — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:05:03 +0000

Thank you so much for pointing this out!
I’m going to fix it, even though your sense of humor makes me really want to leave it alone. 🙂

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:42:30 +0000

This article has the most wonderful typo in it: “default nose reduction settings. ”

Also known as what every Manhattan teenager wants for her 18th birthday.

By: Nikolaj

Nikolaj — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:42:00 +0000

You absolutely need to give Hindenburg Journalist a try. It is by far the most easy-to-use audio editor I have come across. I would love to hear what you think of it.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:30:00 +0000

In reply to Mike.

Mike, that was addressed here: https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/tap010-audacity-and-itunes-making-not-lame-mp3s/

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:34:00 +0000

Fraunhofer MP3s better than LAME?! Maybe 10 years ago. I am surprised you make that statement Matthew, LAME is the de facto standard for MP3s these days (I don’t even think any of the other encoders are still being updated).