How to implement Dynamic Audio Panning in Adobe Audition?

by: EMERSON MANINGO on November 23, 2010 in Music Mixing

In Part 2 of the tutorial, you have learn how to group tracks in Adobe Audition multi-track session.

In this tutorial, you will know how to implement dynamic panning to grouped audio clips in multi-track. Open the Adobe Audition session you have created in Part 2 of the tutorial. Then say for example you will pan the audio from right then passing through the center then to right. In this clip shown below, the middle blue line is the panning line (inside the red box for Group 1 audio clips):

pan is equal to zero

As you will see it is a horizontal line that signifies a Pan= 0 setting. If you will pan the group 1 clips from hard left (Pan = -100) then passing through the center (Pan =0) then to the hard right (Pan = + 100), then you will click, hold and drag the edge of the line at the left of the audio clip wave (the white dot, see the screenshot below indicated by the red arrow):

white dot for panning

Drag it to the top of the audio wave. Then after reaching the top, do the same for the opposite right edge white dot. Click, hold and drag it to the bottom of the audio wave. Do the same for the entire tracks (Track 1 and Track 2). This is the result after doing this:

Completed panning for the clips

The top portion of the panning line area signifies hard left while the bottom portion of the panning area means hard right. At the center, it is shown in the middle like it was on its default settings.

By default, all audio clips are panned to the center of the stereo (Pan =0). Group 1 audio clips (Track 1 and Track 2) are panned from hard left to hard right (top to bottom trend of the panning line). Group 2 audio clips (track 3 and track 4) are panned from hard right to hard left (bottom to top trend of the panning line).
Adjust the main master volume (lowering it down) so that it won’t have to clip at 0 dB. For example adjusting this to -8dB on main master volume:

master volume adjustment in adobe audition

And this is the screenshot of the multi-track session implemented with dynamic panning:

completed panning for entire multi-track

You might notice that the group 1 clips (track 1 and track 2) have panning lines from top to bottom because it is panned from hard left to hard right. While the track 3 and track 4 has panning lines from bottom to top because it is panned from hard right to hard left.

This is how it sounds like:

To go to the last part of this tutorial series, read this tutorial on: Adobe Audition Effects Tutorial in Multitrack Sessions.

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