Lynda.com Soundbooth CS5 Essential Training

Author: Jeff Sengstack
Duration (hr:min): 04:59
Released on: 4/30/2010
Exercise files: Yes
Software works on: Mac and Windows

In Soundbooth CS5 Essential Training, author Jeff Sengstack demonstrates how to record, edit, optimize, and enhance audio using the professional tools in Adobe Soundbooth CS5. This course covers basic audio edits, such as trimming, fading, and panning clips, removing unwanted noise, enhancing audio with special effects, and creating stereo blends from multiple tracks. An overview of recording hardware and a detailed explanation of core audio concepts are included as well. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Setting up recording hardware
• Recording vocals and instruments
• Viewing audio waveforms and spectral frequency displays
• Copying, cutting and pasting audio
• Stretching time and shifting pitch
• Looping tracks
• Identifying and removing noise
• Enhancing audio with Soundbooth effects
• Mixing audio in multitrack mode
• Customizing prebuilt scores
• Working with Soundbooth files in Premiere Pro projects

Content:

Introduction - 04:51

    Welcome - 1:13 - 6.4 MB
    What is Soundbooth CS5? - 2:30 - 5.5 MB
    Using the exercise files - 1:08 - 1.2 MB

1. Understanding Analog and Digital Audio - 18:04

    Taking a look at basic sound waves - 3:53 - 9.5 MB
    Taking a look at complex sound waves - 6:43 - 16.7 MB
    Understanding digital audio concepts - 7:28 - 16.7 MB

2. The Soundbooth Workflow and Workspace - 14:45

    Understanding the workflow - 5:35 - 13.4 MB
    Touring the workspace - 3:44 - 4.9 MB
    Customizing the workspace - 5:26 - 9.0 MB

3. Importing and Recording Audio - 13:11

    Opening and importing files - 3:59 - 5.1 MB
    Setting up recording hardware - 2:35 - 2.6 MB
    Recording vocals and instruments - 6:37 - 6.9 MB

4. Editing Audio Clips - 01:03:15

    Playing and monitoring audio - 5:10 - 6.4 MB
    Viewing audio waveforms and spectral displays - 6:24 - 8.1 MB
    Selecting audio - 9:14 - 11.7 MB
    Trimming and deleting audio - 3:59 - 4.2 MB
    Copying, cutting, and pasting audio and inserting silence - 7:55 - 10.0 MB
    Adjusting volume - 11:21 - 13.6 MB
    Using specialized volume techniques - 6:54 - 8.9 MB
    Creating and using loops - 4:42 - 5.3 MB
    Stretching time and shifting pitch - 5:14 - 6.9 MB
    Working with video files - 2:22 - 4.1 MB

5. Repairing Audio - 26:50

    Identifying noises: Hums, hisses, clicks, and pops - 5:45 - 6.8 MB
    Removing background noise: Audio tape hiss - 7:55 - 10.2 MB
    Removing vinyl record clicks and pops - 3:57 - 5.3 MB
    Removing individual sounds - 9:13 - 12.0 MB

6. Enhancing and Optimizing Audio - 13:27

    Previewing Soundbooth effects - 5:32 - 5.6 MB
    Applying and adjusting standard effects - 4:58 - 5.3 MB
    Applying and customizing advanced effects - 2:57 - 3.4 MB

7. Working with Specific Soundbooth Audio Effects - 48:25

    Applying reverb and echo: Analog Delay and Convolution Reverb - 8:46 - 13.3 MB
    Using delay-based effects: Chorus/Flanger and Phaser - 6:08 - 9.0 MB
    Understanding sound-level effects: Compressor and Dynamics - 7:00 - 9.2 MB
    Applying equalization effects: Graphic and Parametric - 11:14 - 13.9 MB
    Exploring other special effects: Distortion and Vocal Enhancer - 7:58 - 10.8 MB
    Setting the all-in-one effect: Mastering - 7:19 - 9.4 MB

8. Building and Mixing Multitrack files - 46:42

    Understanding multitrack concepts - 1:16 - 5.5 MB
    Building a multitrack file - 7:05 - 8.2 MB
    Adjusting track and clip volume and panning - 8:54 - 9.7 MB
    Adding effects to individual tracks - 7:38 - 9.0 MB
    Using Soundbooth sound effects in your multitrack file - 6:38 - 7.3 MB
    Using three multitrack editing techniques: Duplicating, splitting, and cross-fading - 6:15 - 6.8 MB
    Working with video in multitrack - 2:49 - 3.6 MB
    Using professional production studio mixing techniques - 6:07 - 6.5 MB

9. Customizing Soundbooth Scores - 17:13

    Understanding how scores work - 3:30 - 3.2 MB
    Previewing, downloading, and inserting scores into multitrack files - 4:45 - 4.7 MB
    Adjusting score duration, intensity and parts - 8:58 - 8.8 MB

10. Using Advanced Features - 10:42

    Dynamically linking to Premiere Pro and After Effects projects - 4:31 - 5.8 MB
    Turning spoken dialogue into searchable metadata - 6:11 - 6.6 MB

11. Saving Audio Files and Multitrack Mixdowns - 21:42

    Saving snapshots - 6:23 - 7.2 MB
    Saving entire files or selected ranges - 11:59 - 15.2 MB
    Saving and mixing down multitrack files - 3:20 - 3.8 MB

Conclusion - 00:10

    Goodbye - 0:10 - 0.1 MB