Review: Adobe Audition
Updated August 01, 2022
Review: Adobe Audition
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Audition
Adobe Audition is a fairly powerful tool that outdoes alternative free options for audio editing/sweetening, and offers a robust set of tools for quick cutting and exporting. I use Audition whenever I'm working with audio files, which is quite frequent.
- Audition has an excellent noise reduction plugin. If you work in VO or corporate video, you'll do lots of noise reduction. The versatility of how you can remove noise is wide, and the plugin itself is powerful.
- Audition offers a number of ways to edit sections of audio within a wavelength. If a plugin isn't doing the job, there are many ways to work in the software to eliminate pops and other unwanted artifacts in your audio file.
- Audition has a lot of features, but to me, it feels like Adobe neglects it more often than not. Where I see lots of new, and sometimes incredible, additions to other Adobe products, Audition feels a bit dated in many ways.
- Audition doesn't scrub the timeline well. It does a decent job, but quick editing and scrubbing needs good hotkeys and good navigation precision to be on top of things.
- Audition is bundled with a subscription to the Creative Cloud, so to me, it's an obvious win for ROI.
- Audition gives me much more control over my audio files so it increases client satisfaction.
I mentioned elsewhere, but Audition is a great middle-of-the-road software. I recommend it over free options, but it's a BIG step up if you want to use Pro Tools or other similar software.
Do you think Adobe Audition delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Adobe Audition's feature set?
Yes
Did Adobe Audition live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Adobe Audition go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Adobe Audition again?
Yes