Adjusting a voice to match another: Change Pitch, what else?

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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This is kinda fun, but frustrating because I don’t know the term for the tool I want, nor how to locate it in the drop downs. I wish the Index had all the terms; searching many levels of the Manual is kind of hit & miss and slow.

So I successfully put Loud File after Good Volume File and made a single file, Two Voices.
Note what I have is a Stereo file, the first voice is about 8 minutes followed by the second voice for about the same time.
Then I reduced the volume of of Loud to match Good.
So the overall volume level is the same from start to finish; the second voice doesn’t cause the listener to turn down the volume anymore.

But the “timbre” of the second voice is hard on the ears; not “mellow” like the first.

Effect “Change Pitch” tells me IIRC that the first voice is B2, the second F1. Any hints on using this tool?

I did use the Equalization Effect to “flatten the treble” and it improved the second voice quite a bit. But still not quite there.

The Bass & Treble Effect might be of use, but I have a feeling what I want to do is mellow out the “punchiness” of the second voice and I have no idea how to do that. What should I fool around with?

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Playing around a bit:

Change Pitch Effect:
FIRST VOICE B 5 (1002.273 hz)
SECOND VOICE G#/Ab 6 (1633.333 hz)

reduced second voice by two half-steps
still has lots of bass “rumble” in the sound.

Bass & Treble Effect:
BASS down 12
TREBLE down 8 (?)

then Compressor on the first few seconds;
moved the THRESHOLD all the way to the right
and increased the attack time.

Now the start of the speech does not jar the ear with sudden volume and “punchiness.”

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So you win. I would have bet nobody could do it. “Make my voice sound like…” is a frequent forum request. It usually fails.
Koz

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Not trying to make them sound like anything in particular, just want the second voice to not annoy the listener when making the transition.

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That’s still world-class production editing. I sat for a live recording of a Very Well Known Singer and she needed, as the phrase goes, a lot of work. I wasn’t there for the post production, but when they got done, she sounded very professional, smooth and musical.

That’s why these people get flown to New York for a recording session.

Koz