Question
Limit audio without losing quality
For a 20 minute video I spend hours manually going through it and cutting up the audio tracks manually raising or lowering the db to be near -6db (without sounding like it is jumping up and down too much). I know there *has* to be an easier way to do this but every "automated" method I've tried sacrifices quality in some way. Is there a way to limit/cap/gate audio at -6db where it simply lowers the db instead of cutting it off with a sort of distortion?
For example, I've tried the limiter in the Dynamics effect but anything even a few db over -6db sounds noticeably "weird", as it isn't simply lowering the db. Dynamics Processing also has similar issues. I've tried compression, equalization, normalizing, ect... is there anything that just...lowers the db once it passes a threshold? It seems so simple to me and yet I can not find anything like that.
Also of note to my situation: I don't have a couple audio tracks to apply a lufs balance to, my audio is jumpcut into hundreds of pieces (even before I cut them more to manually balance the db)
