This video really saved me from a lot of obstacles I put myself through trying to edit my voice over audios with minimal knowledge! Thank you so much for sharing what you know, seriously I could cry with relief!

Life saver, had a combined effect of Hard Lim, SBC and Normalise and just wasn't fixing my levels at all and the speech leveler before the combined favorite was perfect. Cheers Mike, best audio expert on YT.

I can't express enough how helpful your tutorials are, thank you so much

Your videos are always helpful Mike. Thanks for taking the time to create them.

I've just started a contract doing voice over for a nonprofit, and because of your videos, they are surprised I am a newbie :D Thanks for making these things easy to understand and follow!!

So much content in a short video, this is brilliant, thanks!

Thank you very much for your free service. The Sir who is training me on Podcasts Production gave me some links to your videos to learn more. And they are really helpful. I am grateful for both him and you Sir Russel.

Oh thank you so much, you have just saved my sanity as I'm learning how to be my own podcast audio engineer. When I had a radio show, the station provided the engineer... so your tutorials (especially this one) are priceless!

Thank you. I finally learned how to boost the volume without boosting the noise while leveling all speech. THANKS ALOT 💖💖

Used an old (legal!) AA v3 for years now and now bringing myself uptodate with how AA has developed. I was trying out Soundforge - the lack of tutorials and support for that put me off, never mind the interface. Your vids persuaded me to go with AA - seems like almost anything I need to know, you have the answer. Great channel, thank you.

I always learn something new and useful on your channel.

Excellent tutorial, thank you very much. Helped me a lot with my class recordings.

Thanks Mike! This is exactly what I needed to know!

wonderful tutorial. i finally understand when to use normalize vs speech volume leveler 👏

Extremely helpful!!! Thank you so much!

Amazing content Mike! Thank you very much, it's helping me a lot to feel confident launching my own podcast :)

mind-blowing! I love your attitude! Thanks

This saved me so much time! Thank you!!

you have such a great vibe! super helpful and entertaining tuts! Subscribed!

Until watching this video I used to think that "Normalize (process) to -3 Db" was different than "Normalize (-3 Db)". Thanks for saving me time!!!

This is the only video that helps me to improve my video quality thank you, Mike

This is so helpful. Thank You!

Wish I could like this video twice. Thanks!

Thanks! Very helpful.

Super helpful, thanks!

very helpful, thank you!!

Thank you, Mike

So awesome!! Thanks!!

Excellent video, it helped me so much!

super super helpful thank you!! that and your 'Adobe Audition Normalize Tutorial' ... top top! :)

thanks for saving my video + vocal !!! luv ya!

thanx! helped a lot

Again, great and clear video! Thanks a lot for your content! Fast question: what happens if you don't normalise before using the speech volume leveller? What is the reason behind normalising it if then you are going to level the volumes?

This is gold!

Thanks Mike

Thanks for sharing this video Mike! Your videos have really enhanced my audio production. A question I had about this process is that if you have an audio clip with 5 different voices (at different levels), do you need to normalize each voice, or do you just normalize the whole clip? Cheers. Tom

my king thanks

thanks mic

sweet, this was the most thorough video I've seen on this thus far. Thanks! I'm using the Zoom F3 and loving it. But, I'm usually in less than ideal shooting circumstances. This may be very helpful. But, I'm feeling like I may like to first do some manual bringing down of hot peaks before trying to normal, maybe... Anywho, thanks again!

Hi Mike! Podcaster/audio newbie here....This video is very helpful but do you have a video that explains more about how to balance interview audio levels on the same track? You demonstrate this a bit in the "podcast" clip where one person is louder and the other person is much quieter. Any suggestions on how to balance extreme audio recordings in the same track? Been digging through your other content but can't seem to find the right one. Thanks and keep up the great work!

Hi Mike, thank you for these videos, they helped a lot. I was wondering if there is a way to extreme the audio waves automathic. What I mean is, I have my records, and for after effects purpose I would like to generate a sample of my track were the more silent space between the sylabs of a speech go verry low in volume, while the highs keep the same consistent, to pop out the difference bettween sound up and sound down. is there a way to force it like that?

DO you think that doing what maule mode is good idea? ( selecting part of Speech and reducing or increasing to for example -3db) I want to do mix to my film...

Good sir

Thank you for putting out these tutorials. Really useful. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. If you are cutting together lots of different takes (for a scripted project), would you apply the normalization / speech volume leveler to each clip before beginning editing? Or wait until you have a finished cut so as not to adjust clips which might not be used? Many thanks.

this is nice for studio recorded audio but not normal ppl audio cuz it increases the breaths etc too. need a work around. maybe hard limiter

Thank you, great trick! Can I ask a question? What is the difference between speech volume leveler and match loudness? I use match loudness for my podcast (with 3-man talkshow) with -19dB target loudness (mono podcast). Last question: can I use on voice bus track? Thank you for your answer!

Hey, thanks for the video. I'm a real newbie with this world but I just started now fixing some old recordings of speeches and I'm trying to understand the ropes. Why would you also use a normilzer and a speech volume leveler, wouldn't the speech volume leveler be enough? I also wanted to ask about the hard limiter, is there any point of a normalizer if I apply a hard limiter? And again is there any difference between hard limiter and the speech volume leveler?

I actually had a question. I know recently you spoke about De-Noise. This is just an audio of myself, of course there are some noise backgrounds and the eventual friend gets picked up. Should I be using De-noise, THEN Normalize & Speed Volume Leveler? Or is it overkill? I also have yet to put in effects and I'm also not sure as to what order is best (effects after my noise reductions or before it). I feel like every time I'm trying to learn a new way to make my audio sound nice and crisp I get scrambled with the order of the process.

Much love from Iran Mike ❤️🇮🇷

Hi, Mike! Until I found your channel I was very good at video but absolute rubbish at audio! It simply went over my head completely and I couldn't get good results. Now, well, I'm decent but learning, thanks to you! *I was wondering if you prefer the Audition's SVL over Accusonus' ERA 5 Voice Lever or vice versa?* I'm looking to level a person's voice who sometimes really emphasises some a couple of syllables in the entire recording which preclude the use of normalisation, as it often even drops down the rest of the recording in order to get those momentary under control. When using Accusonus' VL I don't quite get the result I'm after, as it tends to make the rest of the audio sound a bit weird. The "low" parts of the audio are correct, it's those outlying peaks that I want to get rid of. And when I use Audition's SVL on it, no matter what I do (in the range that does decently balance the level) I get thos magnified breaths at the end of sentences and such. So I'm wondering if there's any way of bringing just the peaks down, instead of passing the entire audio though a process that brings up the level of the rest of the audio. Again thanks a lot for these wonderful tutorials!

So what's the difference between this and "Match Loudness" or ENCN? which one would you recommend or prefer for voiceovers?

Mike, fantastic videos, especially for someone like me who is drinking from the proverbial firehouse! I have a question. I’ve heard you say a billion times that waveform is destructive, so I’m never edit in waveform. But in your normalization at the beginning of this video, you go into waveform for the three tracks to normalize each at -3dB. Is there a way of doing this easily in multitrack so that I’m never modifying the original recorded track?

Great video, Mike! I had a question.. I am putting together a gun fight scene with music playing over it. I want to make sure that the gun sounds don't overpower the music or vise versa. Is this the type of process I would use to avoid that happening? If not, could you possibly do a tutorial on that or point me in a direction? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Hi Mike...been watching your videos for years. You do a great service Sir. One question, if I normalize to -3, then I start clipping. Is that normal? Would that mean that my audio has been recorded at a high enough level where a normalization of say... -8 is more appropriate? I'm confused as to why the presets in the Favorites are automatically set to -3 or -1.5. Thanks!

Speech Volume leveler is an extremely harsh tool, I'd say. It's best to just slice the track on the Multitrack with a Razor, and even the pieces there with Match Clip Loudness, and then adjust them by hand.

Gain staging?

I gave up on the speech leveler for podcasts because I'd find some soft sounds in speech end up being leveled up to sound noticeably unnatural, even with very tame settings. You don't find that happens?

Normalize option seems disable here and couple of other option how to enable metering also please help

I can't seem to do this without also decreasing the volume of the quieter speech in the same track. I only need the loud peaks to be brought down. Nothing else. How do I do this?

Hey Mike, you're a Legend. Hope you know that?

Would you loudness normalize over peak normalize? Just because there could be a large peak somewhere that would throw off any peak normalization. Loudness normalization seems to make more sense then apply the leveler. Just curious. As when I do podcasts someone could laugh or something and will be crazy higher than the regular speech. If this is the case what level would you loudness normalize too. One last thing, say you loudness normalize but that makes something like a laugh peak. If you apply a compressor or volume automation would that laugh still be peaked or does the software know the original clip isnt peaked and bring that laugh level down without peaking. Sorry this is so technical but it gets into more advanced stuff.

Is Matching Loudness going to work for this kind of example? Especially for Rachel where she has the biggest peak so the Normalization won't do much.

I did the speach volume leveler and now the record is full of null random noises that are more than unacceptable...

Hi Mike, 1st question - for that podcast clip with background noise - why don't you just edit that clip alone in Waveform mode using the noise reduction process effect? wouldn't that be better? 2nd question, now that all clips are even, since they are placed in one track instead of separate tracks, how do we export them individually?

what do i do if the normalize effect is grayed out and unavailable?

How do I get music/songs the same volume?

Asking for some help here, I have an audio file from a movie that is distorted in ANY program I play it, like a robotic voice, but when I play it on VLC PLAYER changing the "Preamp" levels on the EQ it solves the problem (downing the levels to be specific) the thing is that I can't find that "Preamp" option in any other program or editing program. my question is, is there any way to fix the audio permanently? By editing it so I can play it on any other video/audio program or my TV etc thank you .

Why didn't you just select all the clips, right-click and hit 'Match Clip Loudness'?

how do i purchase a voice over effect ????

check your plosives, brother. *sigh*