Hey folks, I taped a faily quiet show last week where the applause is much louder than the music. In the past with this issue I have had pretty good success using Wave Hammer in Sony Soundforge to knock the applause down below the music level. Then I normalize. But for some reason with this show, when I compress the applause down, it doesn't sound natural anymore. I guess it is compressing things too much. I fooled with the settings and tried just about all the combinations (compression ratio, threshold, attack and release time) I can think of to make it sound more natural and continuous. I have also played around with the Envelope tool, but I get the same results there, though I find Wave Hammer much easier to use.
I would like to be able to trim off all the high peaks of the applause and then try comprssing it but really can't find a tool to do that. Something like a limiter where I would pick a level and have it trim everything above that.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Greg