How to record a guitar track using Adobe Audition 1.

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As you fellow musicians have heard, Rush Records is on the verge of switching to using Adobe Audition 1.5 as the permanent software in our recording studios. This guide assumes the user has knowledge on software installation due to previous use of Cakewalk Sonar at Rush Records Incorporated and also the knowledge to tune an instrument (in this case a 6-string electric guitar)

Table of Contents What you will be learning

A. Opening the software for the first time B. Configuring software to work with your sound card C. Setting the device orders D. Preparing electric guitar for recording E. Recording a sample sound F. Saving the sample in universal formats

Objects Needed For Recording from Guitar to Computer

Installed copy of Adobe Audition 1.5 One inch to 1/8 inch adaptor Chromatic Tuner or Piano/Keyboard (for tuning purposes) 6 foot long instrument cable with a inch input jack

A. Accessing Adobe Audition for the first time

Click on the START button PROGRAMS Adobe Audition 1.5

The icon will look like this:

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B. Configuring Adobe Audition 1.5 to work with the soundcard

Important: All of the computers at the Rush Records recording studios were upgraded to have Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 soundcards. The settings are the same within Adobe Audition for EVERY computer.

1. On the top menu bar of Audition, click on OPTIONS DEVICE PROPERTIES as shown below:

This will automatically place the user into the tab titled Wave In 2. As seen in blue box, set the Wave In to SB Audigy 2 Audio [CCC0]

3. Now, Click on the Wave Out tab and set SB Audigy 2 Audio [CCC0] as the Wav Out. Notice that this is the same as the in the previous step. This is done because the Input and Output is set as the soundcard of the computer. Note: Ignore the other tabs in Device Properties (MIDI in, MIDI out, etc..) because a MIDI connection is not necessary for this procedure

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Hit the OK button to ensure the settings remain

C. Setting the Device Orders

1. From the top menu bar, select Options Device Order

This option will set the priority of the Audigy 2 soundcard to be the recording device

2. Click on the Recording Devices tab. In the left column, click on SB Audigy 2 Audio [CCC0]

3. Now that the sound card is selected, click USE to place it into the right column As shown

4. Click the tab that says Playback Devices, and select the SB Audigy 2 option once again and hit USE

5. Now hit OK to save the settings.

D. Preparing Guitar for Recording

1. Tune the electric guitar according to a piano or using a tuner 2. Make sure to put the guitar in Standard Tuning 3. Tune from high to low EBGDAE

4. Plug in the inch adapter into one end of the guitar cable

5. Plug the adaptor into the microphone (pink) jack on the computers soundcard which is located behind the computer tower as shown on the next page

6. Now plug the other end of the instrument cable (the inch end) into the input jack on the guitar as shown:

D. Recording a Sample Sound

1. Click on multitrack view as shown and click on the small R button

2. Make sure the volume on the microphone is set mid range on your operating system

3. Turn up the volume and tone on the guitar and strum a note while looking at the bottom of Adobe Audition. If all was connected correctly, then there will be movement of a bar indicating that the soundcard is picking up the sound from the guitar

4. Click the record button

and play a short guitar riff

5. Click the stop button

to end the recording

6. Now, you will see what you have recorded in waveform on the next page

7. Click rewind

button to bring the software to the begging of the recording

8. Click on the Play button

to hear the recording

E. Saving the recorded sample to the computer

This is the final step to the recording process of Adobe Audition 1.5! 1. Click on FILE SAVE SESSION AS and you will see this dialog 8

2. Choose a file name and location for the recording 3. For testing purposes name the file test without the quotation marks 4. Save the file to the My Documents folder 5. After you hit YES to save, this message will appear

This will allow you to automatically save the track as an audio file. In this case, the file will be made into test-Track 1.mp3, hit SAVE when finished

6. Open an external media player, such as Winamp or Windows Media Player 7. Open the file test-Track 1.mp3 with this program to listen to the file

Congratulations!! You have just finished your first professional quality track with Adobe Audition 1.5!!

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