Trying to finish an older show. Levels are way soft. I think the biggest peak is in the -20's, which is from the audience. The music is at least -10db. The problem is that I have tried two ways. I have tried to compress it first, then normalized. Dead air/analog sound is very present on whole recording. Decided to try to normalize first, then compress, then normalize again. Same thing with the dead air. Guessing it is impossible to make this recording good without have some dead air. I am thinking about trying one method that I saw in another post (applying compress only to the audience), but I wanted to see if anyone else had any suggestions. Let me know if you can help.
Jarod