Evening out overall track volume (voices)

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Evening out overall track volume (voices)

Post by eth1129 » Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:56 pm

I've searched everywhere and read everything on normalizing a track, but I can't get the desired levels. It's a recording of a podcast, and one of the two people speaking talks WAY louder than the other person, so I want to even them out so I can hear both people at a similar volume. Is this possible?

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Re: Evening out overall track volume (voices)

Post by kozikowski » Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:14 pm

I've been using this compressor to even out volume variations. When I change the first value to .77, it's a dead ringer for a local radio station sound.

http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/

It only works in Audacity 1.3.

You can install 1.2 and 1.3 as long as you only use one at a time. You can't open up a 1.3 project in 1.2

Koz

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