Mixing 2 Voices When One Is Fat and the Other Is Thin

It can be difficult.

Usually it’s the host who has a decent audio setup that sounds pretty good with normal low end (because they have a decent/good mic), and it’s the guest that sounds really thin if they are on the phone or using a bad headset, etc.

The voice with more low end is always going to sound much “bigger” than the thin voice, which can deceive your ears a bit when you’re trying to make these two voices the same level.

Some possible remedies:

• One trick is to remove some low end from the voice that HAS lots of low end in order to try to match it to the thin voice. This may provide a better listening experience to the listener.
• Trying to add lots of low end to the thin voice will rarely work, and sometimes it’s actually impossible like when someone is recorded on the phone where there are basically no frequencies below 300 Hz. It’s hard to boost something that’s not there.
• Leveling each of these disparate sounding voices to the same LUFS level may help get their level in the same ballpark, but usually you will manually have to adjust their volumes so they sound good together.

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