From the course: Adobe Audition: Editing Podcasts in the Multitrack Editor

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Buses: The fasted way to apply effects

Buses: The fasted way to apply effects

- In this lesson, I'm going to cover a method that will save you a ton of time if you want to optimize multiple audio tracks at once. This method utilizes something called buses. For our purposes, I'll define buses very simply, you can sort of think of it as a place that your audio track goes before reaching the final output. And when the audio track goes through this place, all of the effects that are on the bus will be applied to those audio tracks. The reason this is useful is because we can send multiple tracks to one bus and any effects on the bus will be applied to all of those tracks that get routed to the bus. So basically, instead of going through each audio file or each track and then applying the same compression and EQ, we only need to add the effects to the bus once. The downside to this is that you're not going to be as precise with your edits compared to if you were to go into each audio file and optimize it one by one. But this method works great if you have a lot of…

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