Shaving Luf Hills and Raising Luf Valleys

[JimmyFro]

Hello,
I’m looking for a less laborious treatment strategy to make the voice db level or luf level of the podcast host that I work for, more consistent. He’s either percusive and loud when he gets excited or he relaxes and low-talks; his voice tapers off. Adding to this rollercoaster luf level issue is the over-all volume arc of his track from start to finish. He starts out strong, energetic and on the mic, but as the episode reaches 1/2 way, his level starts to grade downward.

I’m frustrated going thru manually selecting and using compression and amplitude to raise the valleys and lower the excitable loud hills. There’s Got to Be a Better Way!!

I welcome your suggestions.
screenshot attached.

-Jimmy

[DVDdoug]

You can try limiting. I recommend the old limiter because it allows you to actually set a limit: Effects → legacy → Legacy Limiter.)

Run Amplify or Normalize first to get a known starting point with the peaks at 0dB. Then you’ll have to experiment but maybe start with limiting at -10dB to see if that’s too much or too little.

You can optionally run Amplify or Normalize again after it’s evened-out.

There is also a Leveller effect (oddly filed under “distortion”).

[Trebor]

@JimmyFro

There’s Got to Be a Better Way!!

There’s a Nyquist plugin called “LevelSpeech2.ny” it’s a compressor-limiter combo ,
(you may need to de-ess afterwards).