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Her volume goes from a healthy -2db to almost nothing.

"Almost Nothing" is not going to be visible on the timeline. Most of these "convenient" tools need something there.

Koz

If this seems like a lot of work, you're right. Is there a time limit on show delivery? You're talking about a retirement project. How old are you?

Can you edit around the missing words? This is totally not going to be done by dinnertime.

Koz

You may have produced your way out of the Hollywood Desperation Move. Have somebody in front of a good microphone in a quiet room read the same words. You can do this free-form although it seems like you can't. Listen to the live performance in your headphones and repeat the words half to a second l...

There is one possibility if the voice differences aren't too crazy. Chris's Compressor. https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-compressor-plugin-for-audacity/ Chris is a full-on broadcast compressor which will level out different performers in the same show. I change the first setting, Comp...

I got everyone set up and then took the headphones off ... that was the mistake

Ding!

This is all happening in a mixed show? No individual tracks?

[slowly backing out of the room]

Koz

Unless somebody argues with me, I think the show is toast. Do Not use cloud drives for live production. Past the problem you have, there are timing problems when you're trying to record or play in real time. Cloud connections don't do real time. Cloud storage is terrific for backing up your work as ...

I had to go back and re-record the missing sections. Was the first ten seconds of those missing? Wild Guesses: The machine has to stop what it's doing and pay attention to you. What could it be doing? What else is running on your machine? Are you trying to work directly with on-line storage such as...

Is is normalize? Compress? Or something else? Audacity has the Audiobook Mastering Suite. The audiobook people demand that all their works have the same volume, so we designed three tools that guarantee that volume with no peak distortion or other problems. If you just use Loudness Normalization, y...

There is Broadcast Wave (BWF). In particular, the EBU has ratified the Multi-channel Broadcast Wave Format, MBWF, which specifies the means for enhancing the RF64 wave format with BWF metadata. This development allows the use of larger files (file sizes greater than 4 Gbyte) and accommodates wave fi...

Please note the instant the interface goes above two channels and into official multi-track, the price point goes into multiple hundreds. This is a similar problem to those eager to produce a multi-microphone podcast. I can produce a mono or stereo mixdown from up to six microphones with parts I hav...