![]() ![]() I would use a separate track for each person and just use the faders. I was playing with the JS expander the other day and I wonder if that would help - not tried it yet, but it could be the answer to boosting quiet passages to more or less the same ceiling. Then, as you say, once everything is more or less the same level I can compress, normalise etc. So I have to go through the track putting splits around the different people talking then normalising the quiet ones. I do quite a bit of podcast editing and the problem I have is editing an incoming Skype stream, where say 3 voices are all on the same track - you always get one person with a great headset who is loud and clear, someone else with lousy bandwidth who is zoning in and out, and someone on his iPad mic who is miles quieter. In that case you would want to try to match the overall level between sections before they hit the FX, and normalize could be a quick way to get close enough. if the different sections of audio are significantly different in level, they will drive the comp and limiter differently, and they could end up sounding significantly different. That is not a forgone conclusion with any limiter I know, but. In the case of the OP, I think I agree with folks who said it's not necessary as long as the limiter actually limits at whatever level you've decided for your final product. Peak gain (shift+arrow) only actually goes so far, and the fact that it is global means that you often can't see a very loud and a very quiet sound at the same time, and that can make a lot of editing tasks more difficult than it needs to be. With really extreme differences, it would still probably be better to do it by hand like you have been. ReaComp with a big RMS window and enough lookahead to be in the middle of the RMS works very well as a "vocal leveler". It'll make the quiet parts quieter, which does not directly help you. ![]() Unless you've got strange, (possibly over-)complicated plan in mind, I'm pretty sure an expander is the opposite of what you want. ![]()
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