Audition Podcast Breathing fix

This invariably happens when you have some sort of automatic level control, or compression that's been over-applied to a track; the level gets pulled up to try to compensate for the silence that's happening between words. Yes I realise that this is a particularly useless thing for it to do, but that pretty much sums up what's happening...

How did you achieve the loudness matching? Also, that doesn't appear to be rather a low number compared to the -23LUFS or thereabouts that most broadcasters are using. If your original mix sounds okay, then it's whatever is happening after this. If the individual mic contributions are okay, then it's something that's happening at the mixdown point. Unfortunately, if the breathing sounds are nearly as loud as the wanted audio, then you have no option but to reduce them manually - there's no way that any software can distinguish between wanted and unwanted sounds at the same level.