a workflow for equal loudness RMS normalization on Adobe Audition

Sat with the Telugu team and worked out the following procedure for increasing and standardizing the RMS volume of their audio to -12 dB in Adobe Audition.

1. Match the volumes in the relevant regions to around -12 dB peak.
2. Do Noise Reduction by selecting a region of audio without noise, and then using that as the noise to be removed, around 70% or 80%.
3. Noise Gate at -60 dB - the threshold to be tweaked depending on audio's background noise level.
4. Choose either L or R track and mute the other track if relevant audio is only on one track, then convert to Mono.
5. Multiband compression using the Broadcast preset, and decreasing the thresholds by -20 dB, with Brickwall On.
6. Reverb filter if required.
7. Total RMS to -18 dB.
8. Hard Limiter at -6 dB.
9. Normalize peaks to 100%.