pamelas66517224 wrote Hi Bob, Thanks for your recommendation. I do believe that it is as you described where both recordings have sound from the other. What is “Gates?” I’m new to podcasting and have no audio exp so thanks again. A "gate" in audio terms is an effect that turns on the output of a track when it's above a certain level and turns it off when it's below that level. If the "wrong person" recording in each track is significantly lower than the main voice, then you might be able to set the gate to differentiate between the two and turn the tracks on and off as required. If you want to try it, the gate is located in Effects/Amplitude and Compression/Dynamics. There are presets there for Noise Gate and Autogate--they're pretty similar, in fact there's tick box on the pop up control panel that lets you switch between them. You'll almost certainly have to adjust the effect to set the proper level for the gate to operate. There are a bunch of daunting controls but the main one for your use is the one labelled "Threshold". You need to set this at a level between the loud voice and the quiet voice (and do it on both tracks). I should warn that a gate is a bit fiddly to set up. If it was me, if the gate takes too much tweaking, I'd go back to my previous idea and just do it with volume envelopes. As for reducing the problem next time you record, there a few things to play with. The first is simply the distance between the two of you. There's a formula about sound (which you don't need to know) which means that every time you double the distance between a sound and the microphone the sound level is only a quarter of the original. If you were two feet apart before and move that to four feet, the pickup on the wrong mic will be only a quarter as much. The other thing might be your positioning. Different mics have different pick up patterns. A common one is known as "cardioid" and on these they pick up sounds loudly in front of the mic but much less pick up from directly behind. I obviously don't know what kind of headset mics you have but it might be worth trying sitting directly opposite each other. If your mics are cardioid you'll pick up very little of the person opposite you. Finally, a last thing to play with might be echoes in your room. If you can put soft stuff (duvets, movers blankets, even thing curtains behind and in front of each of you, it can greatly reduce the sound bouncing around. Hope some of this helps!
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