Help with voice audio issue

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hey guys,

I’ve recently started a podcast… My friend and I both record on Audacity, then I run our voices through a chain which is… Compressor, Equalisation, Limiter and Normalize… the settings were found on a YouTube video… Now I understand that for this one chain to work the same on both of us is lucky… We’ve had a guest join us this week and his mic sounds a lot quieter than us… He hasn’t got a bad setup etc… so my only guess can be that he laughed loudly at the beginning and because of that loud laugh, the rest of his mic is being made quieter.

But… I don’t really know… I’m not claiming to be great at production.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me of a way to get a nice solid overall sound to all mics?

Thanks in advance!

Ben

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so my only guess can be that he laughed loudly at the beginning and because of that loud laugh,

Yes. Normalization uses the loudest part as the reference (actually the highest peak which may not necessarily sound that loud). Compression & limiting will smooth things out, but you might want to ust the [u]Envelope Tool[/u] to “manually” bring down the laughing or bring-up the other parts.