how can I make the audio spectrum less sensitive

[mtab5D95]

how can I make the audio spectrum less sensitive. it is move with every sound. the Primary sound and secondary sound

[Rick Gerard]

The only controls you have on the effect are in the UI. You just have to adjust them. You can also modify the audio track. For a lot of the audio that I use to drive animations or effects, I will create a separate audio track especially modified and equalized to use just to control the effects. After Effects has limited audio effects. You can apply them then pre-compose the audio track and move all attributes, then use the pre-comp as the source for your audio spectrum effect. A much better tool is Adobe Audition. I often modify the audio so much that it is almost unrecognizable, but it gives me the frequencies and the levels I need to drive the animation. That audio is turned off in the timeline and the original audio is used for the project.

[Rosger]

Can you give a loose step by step on how to do that? I simply duplicated the audio file in Premeire and distorted it for better spectrum effect but it didnt work. And I cant duplicate the audio layer in AE. 

[Mylenium]

What Rick said. The answer is not in AE. You tweak a duplicate of your audio file in an audio processing tool like Audition until it produces "nice" spectra and reference that in the effect from an otherwise muted layer.

Mylenium