Background
Ducking is the action of lowering the volume of one piece of audio to allow another simultaneous piece of audio to have more prominence. In terms of voiceover, this is most likely lowering the volume of music to bring the voiceover to the front.
While creating a few small production pieces for America's Debate Radio, I was dreading having to build envelope curves to accomodate the music dozens of pieces.
I spent a couple hours searching, trying to figure out how to duck background music automatically when a voiceover plays. If Audition comes with a built-in method to do this, I haven't found it. I ended up finding a plugin that accomplishes this pretty well.
I am documenting it here for my own use and for anyone else who may need to automate ducking in Audition.
Let's get started.
