audio pan changes levels

klimvid wrote on 3/24/2005, 6:40 PM
I have short pieces of English and Spanish narration alternating through the timeline. This is what I did:

1. apply noise reduction to rid background hum
2. tweak each audio segment to around -6.0db
3. apply automation pan while playing the track to move English to left 36% and Spanish to right 36%.

Problem: after applying pan, alternating right/left peaks were too high in the master bus, into the -1.0db range and even above.

Can I salvage this using Wave Hammer or other plug-in or should I start over with a different plugin sequence, like set pan first and then adjust volume? Please advise.

klimvid