When Guests Drastically Change Their Proximity to Their Mic Halfway Through an Episode

In a recent recording session with a guest who was using earbuds for her microphone, I had to stop the session halfway through to remind her to NOT let her earbuds flap around and make noise. Then, for the rest of the episode she held the earbud mic right up to her mouth (which I specifically instructed her NOT to do)!

This resulted in the second half of the episode being way louder and having a much different tone compared to the first half.

In post, to maintain the continuity of the sound for the listeners, I had to EQ match and level match the two vastly different sounding parts.

It took a while to dial it in to my satisfaction, but in the end the entire episode sounded good.

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