how to reduce gain only in a portion of the clip

[charles kasler]

What is the best way to do this? I looked through old threads because I thought there was a way to right click and select peaks within a clip and lower the gain but I can't get it to work. I could do it by splitting portions of the clip but that's time consuming. I'm referring to leveling out a vocal track before further processing. Thanks!

Edited April 13, 2023 by charles kasler
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[Andres Medina]

Several ways - my preferred one: create an automation level envelope. You can level "by ear" moving the fade slider of the audio track in real time, or you can write the nodes in the lane. Depends on the audio material, one way should be better for you-

[charles kasler]

Good, thank you Andres!

[msmcleod]

[charles kasler]

Thanks so much!!

[Andres Medina]

8 hours ago, msmcleod said:

Great!

I wonder how you can quick edit the already adjusted envelope? When I try to do it is very hard to include exactly the same nods?

[msmcleod]

10 hours ago, Andres Medina said:

Great!

I wonder how you can quick edit the already adjusted envelope? When I try to do it is very hard to include exactly the same nods?

You can adjust existing envelope shelves by holding down CTRL and moving the shelf:

[Andres Medina]

8 hours ago, msmcleod said:

You can adjust existing envelope shelves by holding down CTRL and moving the shelf:

Man, I wish I knew this years ago! Thanks!

[John Vere]

I’m glad I read this I didn’t know about the Ctrl trick. 

[Craig Anderton]

The Ctrl/"raise or lower selected nodes" trick also works with track automation. You can think of it as an alterative to Offset mode (which is incredibly useful - it's amazing every DAW doesn't have this!) when you want to offset only a portion of a track's automation.