[sundontlie]

I have a show that is set up like "The View". Multiple hosts plus guests placed semi circle around a big table. Everyone is talking over everyone else making it sounds quite messy.

Normally, I would isolate who was talking and manually pulled down the other tracks to clean up the mix. Though with 10 iso tracks plus guest mics it's a lot to manage quickly. The signal to noise is such that talking and not talking are close to the same volume so using the waveform isn't always working as I'll miss a quick comment or side note. Expanders are running to help though with the high signal to noise it's not much help.

It is taking awhile to ingest the conversation, decide who is leading, which comments need to be heard and then mixing it. Does anyone have any tips or thoughts as to how to quickly get through cleaning up all the open mics inherent in a show like this? Any thing would help. Thanks.