Processing a Guest That Keeps Drifting on and off Mic

When a person has poor mic technique (continually drifting closer and further from the microphone), their recording ends up being extremely dynamic and the color/tone of the sound varies drastically.

When the person is close to the mic, the sound is fine, but when they drift off-mic the tone has much less presence/clarity as well as more room noise/reverb.

Of course if you do nothing about this, you end up giving the listeners a bad listening experience.

So, one strategy to help reduce the effects of bad microphone technique:

1. First, level it generally (using a compressor with a longer release time, and/or an automatic vocal rider plugin)
2. Then use a multiband compressor to try to even out the major tone differences.

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