Multitrack - Adobe Audition 2.0

I am using Multitrack to make a montage of song clips (Bounce to New Track).
Obviously each track varies in volume slightly. When I create a Mixdown, AA 2.0 seems to do some form of normalization or limiting. Looking at the Mixdown some of the tracks are louder than the originals. I am not using any gain or any of the effects.
Why does it do this, and is there any way to turn this off? All I want is the Mixdown - I do not want AA 2.0 to do anything to the volume of the tracks when it creates the Mixdown.
Thank you in advance!
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DJPT-UK wrote:
Obviously each track varies in volume slightly. When I create a Mixdown, AA 2.0 seems to do some form of normalization or limiting. Looking at the Mixdown some of the tracks are louder than the originals. I am not using any gain or any of the effects.
Why does it do this, and is there any way to turn this off? All I want is the Mixdown - I do not want AA 2.0 to do anything to the volume of the tracks when it creates the Mixdown.
Audition doesn't do any sort of anything that you haven't told it to - whether you realised it at the time you were doing it or not. There is no form of normalization or limiting applied to any tracks at all unless it's specifically selected to be there, so whatever you are doing, it's categorically not Audition's fault - or we'd have noticed this a long time ago, believe me. But since you are using Bounce to New Track, rather than a mixdown, and that uses a straightforward dB addition process, it's inevitable that results will be a little strange - it's completely the wrong tool to use.
The one thing that you will notice very directly when using bounce to new track is that there will be a -3dB level shift in the new track, because of the way that the panning control works. If you don't want that to happen, then go to Edit>Preferences>Multitrack and select Left/Right Logarithmic for your stereo panning mode. And if you make this change, you will have to restart Audition completely before it takes effect (bold because for some reason, people keep overlooking this step). This setting applies to the entire mixer, incidentally.
Anyway, if you want your montage to sound correct, then the thing to do is to do a proper mixdown - having checked that it actually sounds okay in Multitrack View. Because then, you'll get what you want. So you go to File>Export>Audio Mixdown and select the options you want - in this case, from the master output, and then name a file to save it to. When you click okay, the file will be created and automatically open up in Edit View.

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