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12 years, 9 months ago - Shoaib Vali

Compressing is the way to do it, the other option is to, get a better editor ;)

12 years, 9 months ago - Shoaib Vali

or a sound designer ofcourse...if you have the money, may as well give it for good use, more money in the industry, the better for all of us collectively.

12 years, 9 months ago - Kicking Ink

Best result will be to 'ride' the volume automation to even it out. Compression risks changing the colour of some of the sounds unless the levels are already in the same ball park. If you need somebody to fix it, I have a sound studio with a BBC rqd6400 comp which is about the best there is for this sort of thing.

12 years, 9 months ago - Alastair Cameron

Just to clarify what people have said above a compressor will bring down the loud parts of the sound (above a set threshold ) and then make up the level by boosting the signal afterwards, it is best if you have problems with a big difference between the loud and quiet parts of the sound but if the problem is that you have different files which were recorded at different levels it might be better to just boost the level on those files , but if the source audio has to much hiss and noise you may find that it becomes unacceptably loud. it is difficult to say what the best approach is without a bit more detail as to the problem.
Audacity is a pretty good free sound editor that you could try adjusting the gain level with. If you could post a more specific description of the problem we might be able to help more.

Sorry this is a bit of a ramble but in a massive rush and will try to tidy it later

12 years, 9 months ago - Connor Snedecor

The shortest answer, if you don't have money for a professional sound mix, is to tell your editor "try using a compressor filter" - compressors apply varying levels of gain to different parts of a recording to try to get the average gain (volume) to be more consistent. There are usually quite a few settings to try and it might not sound great if your "downs" are too low and have hiss when brought up, or if your "ups" are too high and distort.

12 years, 9 months ago - Elizabeth Obisanya

great thanks we have the money but want to know if we can fix it without spending extra money...

i will relay the message to my editor

12 years, 9 months ago - SP User

Life's full of ups and downs!

12 years, 9 months ago - Asteriks Beatmekker

Supporting what has already been said....
The compressor is a tricky/fiddly bit of equipment to use correctly, and in this case might not give satisfactory results.
Automation would probably serve better results overall, however, this is time intensive.
Most audio Digital Work Stations can handle this including Soundtrack Pro, Logic Pro, Protools, Cubase etc.
Probably best to get someone to do this professionally, if you don't already have the software or experience for sound editing.
Do contact me if you need help here!
Either way, good luck with your final decision.