At least it would give you a starting point for talking about it. One thing you can try is to get him to listen to a recording of himself, and see what he thinks about it very often people are their own worst critics, and that may be all he needs to address the issue. I'd be the first to admit that this can be a problem with some talent, though.
If people are going to have to listen to him for any length of time, then you really must do something about this at source. The only times you will sometimes get away with this (or any other form of volume expansion) is if your voice-over is over a reasonably loud music bed, or other noise, that's louder.īut you said that this is for an audio book, so it's unlikely that the foregoing will apply at all. All that happens if you use a noise gate is that you lose not only the sound from the speaker's mouth, but also all of the background noise - and when this comes and goes it will create a 'pumping' sound that after a very short while, will become even more annoying than the sounds you are trying to eliminate - seriously. Not really, otherwise I would have suggested it myself.
