Audio editors: How are lowering dialog breaths in your audio? I've tried some of the automated solutions and (even with careful tweaking) have never found them reliable enough to actually use. I always revert to manually doing it.
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I cut them and lower them by hand. I am using 'Custom: Group Split Under Mouse Cursor' in Reaper so I don't have to click to cut. And I have a Custom key 'Zenakios/SWS: Nudge active take volume down' and one for up. An Expander might also work but I it brings in other issues I don't like.
Thanks Marco. I'd love to see your process as a screen recording if you're up for that.
Best solution I've found so far is with the item take envelope, drawing a rough razor edit around the breath, and then using a custom action to fade it down.
Here's my screen recording. Must say I often set the volume of the audio items by cutting items into smaller ones and set the gain (pre-mixer) instead of drawing automation. The keys I mention in my screen recording I use all the time for this.
Screen recording with sound btw. For all items with voices I set them to -23 LUFS using the 'SWS/BR: Normalize loudness of selected items to -23 LUFS' custom action. So I cut items into smaller ones and run this action to set them to -23 LUFS.
Looks like it works pretty well! Do you often need the half-decibel level of precision? I've just been reducing them by 12 and re-adjusting later if they sound weird, hah! I feel like a lot of what I do as a mixer is quite quick and dirty.
Yes with music the 0.5 dB precision I need. With voices maybe not because I also compress these. I find your method very quick and interesting. We all use different approches which is what is so nice about Reaper I guess.
Ahh, with music I understand. What I do is have one action for small adjustment (1dB) and another for big adjustment (6dB) and find that I can use them together kind of like Roman Numerals.
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Best solution I've found so far is with the item take envelope, drawing a rough razor edit around the breath, and then using a custom action to fade it down.