Difference between revisions of "Recording with a Microphone to Adobe Audition - Mixing Bench"

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Overview

This article describes recording a microphone with the MOTU 828 interface into Adobe Audition.

• You will need to get an microphone with an XLR connector from Media
• You will also need an XLR mic cable

Audio Interface

The Mixing Benches have a MOTU 828 Audio interface. The Audio Interface - Mixing Bench article has additional information about the 828.

• There are two XLR/1/4" mic/instrument inputs on the front.
  • Microphones can be connected to theses inputs with XLR cables.
  • Guitars can be connected with 1/4" cables.
  • Each input has:
    • Trim control
      • Rotate the knob to adjust levels
    • Pad for reducing input levels
      • Press the Trim knob to turn on or off the pad
    • Phantom Power
      • Press and hold the Trim knob to turn on or off the phantom power

Recording

Setting Mic Levels

1. Connect the microphone to Mic/Instrument 1 on the MOTU 828
2. If it is a condenser mic turn on the phantom power.
   1. Press and hold the Trim knob to turn on or off the phantom power
3. Talk into to the mic
4. Adjust the trim knob while looking at MIC 1 meter on the right of the MOTU 828
5. Set the levels so that the signal is a little bit into the orange.

Audition

1. Open Audition from the dock
2. If prompted sign to the Creative Cloud Desktop app with your Evergreen email and password.
   1. Adobe Creative Cloud Sign In
3. Go to File > New > Audio File...
4. In the New Audio File window set the following settings
   1. Name: Choose a meaningful name
   2. Sample Rate: 48000 Hz
   3. Channels: When recording one mic set it to Mono
   4. Bit Depth: 32 (Float)