Hi! In my project I have a voiceover track I simply recorded in Windows Sound Recorder. I have a separate track for background music to play faintly in the background just so everything isn't so quiet/boring. I couldn't tell you what I did (I didn't think I did anything honestly) but my project is done however the background music is way too loud. Louder than my speaking voice in fact.

When I first added the background segments I lowered them to -18.4 dB. Everything was fine, but now they're pretty loud in comparison to my voice, and they still show being at -18.4 dB. I can't really take them down any lower, at least enough to matter. I don't know what happened. I realize I can raise the volume everywhere else to compensate, but that's another problem I'm having being a novice: I have no idea how loud a video will be once it makes it to YouTube, so I'm gun shy about changing all kinds of things around. "Normalize audio" doesn't seem to produce the results I want either based on past experience.

Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!