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Trying stereo and 5.1 surround sound effects
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Working with the Audio Mixer
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Outputting tracks to submixes
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Recording voice-overs
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Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix
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Integrating with Soundbooth
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Working with multiple tracks and Adobe Dynamic Link 
in Adobe Soundbooth
This lesson will take approximately 90 minutes.

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Audio eff ects in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can dramati-
cally change the feel of your project. To take your 
sound to a higher level, leverage the integration and 
power of Adobe Soundbooth CS5.

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LESSON 13
Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
Getting started
Adobe Premiere Pro contains more than 20 audio effects that can change pitch, 
create echoes, add reverb, and remove tape hiss. As you’ve done with video effects, 
you can set “keyframeable” audio effect parameters to adjust effects over time.
The Audio Mixer lets you blend and adjust the sounds from all the audio tracks in 
your project. Using the Audio Mixer, you can combine tracks into single submixes 
and apply effects, panning, or volume changes to those groups as well as to indi-
vidual tracks.
Adobe Soundbooth is an audio application that is designed especially for video 
and Adobe Flash Professional CS5 editors. Adobe Soundbooth provides the tools 
video editors need to sweeten and repair typical audio challenges. Don’t let the easy 
interface mislead you—Adobe Soundbooth is a powerful tool.
Sweetening sound with audio effects
For most projects, you will probably be happy to use audio in its original, unal-
tered state, but at some point you might want to start applying effects. If you use 
music from old cassette tapes, you can use the DeNoiser audio effect to detect and 
remove tape hiss automatically. If you record musicians or singers in a studio, you 
can make it sound like they were in an auditorium or a cathedral by adding the 
Reverb effect. You can also use Delay to add an echo, DeEsser to remove sibilance, 
and Bass to deepen an announcer’s voice.
You’ll try a few audio effects in this lesson, but you can expand your knowledge by 
going beyond that. Experiment. Listen to the possibilities. Test some effects not 
covered here. Each effect is nondestructive—that is, it does not change the original 
audio clip. You can add any number of effects to a single clip, change parameters, 
and then delete those effects and start over.