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https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/news-makers/from-gainesville-to-gain-control-reaves-finds-his-zen        Yeah, it is easy to forget about controlling audio with some sort of an audio Automatic gain Control, (AGC), But, adding a decent AGC, with the Compressor / Limiter, does yield to some nice, commercial broadcast quality audio results. BTW, my answer to Audio AGC was the original TERK VR-1 unit, meant to tackle TV audio that was all over the place at the time.  https://www.crutchfield.com/S-3KT4WJ8C5t0/p_209VR1/Terk-VR-1.html  In 2005, I bought one of the original ones for $80.00 new, which was considered a bargain for what it does, a DSP unit that is specifically setup for Audio AGC. Do not confuse this with the now newer & cheaper, but very much flawed P.O.S., Audiovox VR-1. That, uses op-amps as compariters, and does these loud POP sounds when it acts hard to control audio. A very inferior version indeed. However, if you find the original TERK VR-1, in perfect order, I'd suggest you grab it up.
The best two statements of advice that I've ever gotten are from my brother-in-law in the early 1990's. 1st one, when I bought a used '89 Olds Cutless, my bro-in-law said, "Congratulations!!! You've just bought a deficit!". The other, was on a work environment, " No matter where you go, it's going to be f***'ed -up!". No truer words have been spoken.