How I Recently Handled a Panel of 4-5 People Recorded on a Single Track

For a client’s podcast episode, I recently received a mono file containing 4-5 people on stage as part pop a panel discussion. The levels for each participant in the raw recording varied GREATLY (see the waveform image here).

In the past I’ve processed lots of recordings like this. And it’s never easy to process these files so that each participant sounds good in the final episode.

In this particular case:

First I removed several loud thuds due to people unplugging mics, etc.

Then I evened out the levels of all the participants using various processors in this order:

• Compression
• Vocal Rider
• Multiband compression
• Compression
• Compression

How do you handle situations like this?

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