Adobe Audition
Adobe's professional audio editor for podcast production, sound design, and broadcast post.
What it is
About Adobe Audition
Adobe Audition is a professional digital audio workstation from Adobe, included in Creative Cloud. It handles multitrack recording, editing, mixing, and audio restoration — and integrates directly with Adobe Premiere Pro via Dynamic Link for audio post in video workflows. Its Spectral Frequency Display lets you see and surgically remove unwanted sounds (a cough, a click, background hum) that are impossible to target accurately in a conventional waveform view. Widely used in podcast production, broadcast, and film audio post-production.
What you can do with it
Capabilities
Record and edit multitrack audio sessions with non-destructive clip-based gain and precise waveform trimming
Isolate and erase a specific unwanted sound — a cough, a buzz, a click — by selecting it visually in the Spectral Frequency Display
Clean location recordings using adaptive Noise Reduction, DeHum, and DeEsser tools to remove background noise automatically
Send audio from Premiere Pro via Dynamic Link to Audition for detailed cleanup without bouncing an intermediate file
Mix and export a finished audio file at broadcast loudness standards (LUFS) for podcast, TV, or streaming delivery
How to learn it
Learning Resources
Adobe's free Audition tutorials at helpx.adobe.com/audition — comprehensive and kept up to date
YouTube: Mike Russell (Music Radio Creative) covers Audition for podcast and broadcast workflows thoroughly
If you already use Premiere Pro, open your next video's audio in Audition via Dynamic Link — the integration is the fastest path to real-world learning
Pro Tip
The Spectral Frequency Display is the feature that justifies Audition over most alternatives. Learning to read a cough as a bright vertical smear in the spectrogram — and erase it with the Marquee tool — saves hours of manual clip splitting on dialogue-heavy recordings.
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Roles that use this tool