How to Mix Music With Soundbooth

Soundbooth users can record up to 48 simultaneous audio tracks.

The Adobe Soundbooth CS4 application allows users to perform basic mixing operations on audio tracks within a project. This includes adjusting track volumes, stereo panning or adding effects. Adobe Soundbooth CS4 can also mix down all of the audio tracks into a single MP3 or WAV file.

Instructions

1. Open the Adobe Soundbooth program on your computer. This intensive application may take a few minutes to start up depending upon your computer's speed. Click the "File" menu and then select "Open Project." Choose the Soundbooth project file you want to mix.

2. Pull out a sheet of paper and pencil. Press the "Play" button within the application. Listen to the current audio mix of the project. Make note of anything you would like to change in the song mix. This might be lowering a guitar track, panning a vocal track, adding reverb to a snare or any number of things.

3. Click a track you want to adjust in the mix. Click and hold the gold "track volume" knob on this track. Turn the knob the left or right depending upon volume level you wish. The knob displays the current decibel level of the track. Continue setting the audio levels for each track in the project.

4. Click a track you want to use with stereo panning. Locate the "stereo pan" knob in the lower-left corner of the track. Click the "Play" button on the Soundbooth application. Click and hold this knob. Turn it left or right to pan the track as you wish. Continue panning each track within the project.

5. Select an audio track you want to use with an audio effect. Click the "Effects" menu and then choose the audio effect you want to apply to the track. Continue this process with other tracks in the project.

6. Click the "File" menu and then select "Export." Click the "Clip Mixdown" button. Choose either "MP3" or "WAV" as your output file format. Choose a destination folder for the file. Click the "Export" button.

References

• Adobe: Soundbooth CS4