Hi there,
I'm new to Adobe Audition and am poor with technology in general, so please forgive my lack of familiarity with appropriate tech lingo. I will describe my problem as best I can in layman's terms.
So I have a Skype recorded interview (MOV file), and when I originally listened to it, it sounded perfectly fine, and the man I was interviewing could be heard clearly. However, when I imported the file into Adobe Audition, his voice sounds like a whisper, and the background static/hissing/crackling noise which was on the original hardly noticeable, is now louder than his voice and sounds as if it is drowning out his words.
I attempted playing with the different sound settings and ran into a few different problems. The first being that in raising his end of the audio, I also raise my end, and since the two are linked and go together somehow it makes background noise worse, drowning out his words even more. (Is there away to seperate his audio from mine if he is the only one talking?) I additionally tried working with different noise reduction effects, but since the noise I'm trying to get rid of is typically louder than the one I want to keep, and I end up taking out most of the speaker's voice and keeping the background noise.
The hissing/whispering of his voice have nothing to do with setting volume too low/high.
So, I think a summary of my questions are as follows: What could cause the difference in sound quality once imported into adobe audition? Is a different file, perhaps wav, more compatible with this program? and is there a way to separate his audio from mine if they are 'linked' together by nature of the original recording?
If you have ANY potential solutions to this problem at all, please share them. I am growing extremely frustrated and have no idea how to continue to attack this problem.