Both of your clips have “rumble” or low pitch tones that aren’t useful. It’s not always environment (heavy trucks driving by). It’s not unusual for some home microphones to make rumble because it’s expensive to remove and nobody can hear it. But it can screw up post production filtering. The corrections take into account sound nobody can hear.
Steve wrote a filter to get rid of it without seriously affecting your voice.
LF Rolloff is called Low Rolloff now, but it’s the same tool.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/soft-voice-and-microphone-levels/44319/13
Ignore SetRMS. That’s for a different job.
Matt has very well behaved track and I would have no trouble making him into an AudioBook except he sounds like he’s recording in a kitchen or empty room. That’s significant because we can’t take echoes out of a sound track. So you and he will never sound like you’re in the same room.
Mega is announcing into a automatic (gamer??) headset or microphone and should probably stop. The volume changes up and down but that doesn’t bother me. The noise level is high FFFFFFFFFFFF, but we can probably deal with that, too. It’s an automatic microphone and that’s deadly.
At the end where Mega stops talking and look what happens to the noise.
“Matt, how are you?” …ffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Pumping noise is impossible to correct. FFFFF is going to happen every time Mega stops talking to listen to Matt.
I have a headset where I can turn off AGC or Auto Gain Control. Mega should look for his controls.
I guess Matt is using a simple desktop microphone (or possibly built-in) and there is always going to be a presence difference between Mega and Matt. I once played two different people in a show by intentionally using a microphone that way.
There’s no filter for that, either.
So Matt needs to change the room and Mega needs to change the microphone.
No problem.
OK. So I applied LF-Rolloff (or Low Rolloff) to both tracks.
Chris’s Compressor to more or less even out the volume changes and then Limiter to take the peaks down a bit This is a badly cut “podcast” where I cut between the two tracks. It’s in higher quality MP3 because 30 seconds of WAV will not fit.
If that’s close enough, I’ll forward details of how I got there.
Koz