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DuckingNow, when you play back your podcast you should find that when the Comedy Drum Fill clip starts playing it first sounds a little muffled, and then when the playhead completely passes your voice recording the Comedy Drum Fill clip suddenly starts playing louder. This occurs because of something called "ducking". Ducking just means that the volume of one track is lowered when another track is played at the same time. In my experience this is most-often used on podcasts, where there is music or other noise played in the background, while the speaker talks in the foreground. For instance, I can play a nature recording in the background on one track, while I talk on another track. This can give the illusion that I'm in the forest, when I'm really in a studio. (If you listen to NPR they seem to use this technique a lot, using the sounds of coffee shops or other places with noisy backgrounds behind their commentary.) By default the Jingles track is set to be ducked (meaning it becomes more quiet when it overlaps with another track). This is probably an appropriate setting for the more-complicated podcasts you'll learn to create. But, for our purposes, I don't want to get into ducking too much yet, so let's turn it off. To turn off ducking for the Jingles track, click the up-arrow icon just above the blue down-arrow icon (as shown in Figure 12). This turns the up-arrow a yellow/orange color, just like the icon on the Male and Female Voice tracks. That's all you have to do.
After this change, play back your recording as usual, and the ducking problem should be fixed. Again, I don't want to mis-lead you: ducking can often be a very desirable effect for podcasts. But just for today, this is the effect that I want. Once you've made this change, go ahead and save your podcast, we're done with this tutorial. If you'd like to hear my podcast to see how it compares to yours, click here to listen to it as an MP3 file.
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