[Rwp] a quick introduction and help needed lowering selection to 10DB?

[Michael Babcock]

Good day to everyone on this amazing list!

My name is Michael Babcock as obvious from the name field in my email account!
I'm a new member to this list because I recently downloaded the REAPER Application to my computer. Note, I am currently primarily using OS X version 10.11,  with voiceover; I also have windows 10 installed via BootCamp and have no problem with using it in combination with jaws 16.
First of all, I'm not a musician at all! When I sing people run for the woods, and when I attempt to put my own musical tracks together, they just don't sound good to me. That might also have something to do with the fact that I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my own work, which as you probably know we are our own worst critics. That being said however, I've put myself on my own personal campaign of putting together one podcast per day at least, through the end of the year. I've done pretty good so far if you ask me! If I don't have unique content, I'll grab my periscope videos that I shoot and import them into my audio editor to produce them as a podcast. That's where your help comes in.
Yesterday I was easily able to import the video that I extracted from periscope and use airdrop to transfer to my mac, and I was even able to add an introduction and Outtro  audio files to this video, then rendered it into mp3 for use on Libsyn. However, it doesn't sound the way that I'd like it to, and if I describe what I'm looking for maybe you'll be able to give me a hand. The introduction file that I use is 53 seconds long, the first 16 seconds are vocals from a guy named Tim who introduces me to my podcast listeners. The remaining 37 seconds is music  that he is added to the end of the introduction vocals for me to talk over. So, what I like to do in most cases, is drop this last 37 seconds of audio to -10DB so my vocals are her just fine. My first question is what would be the easiest way to do this, in other audio editing programs I've set a marker at the 16 second point, extende selection to the end of the audio, and used amplify FX to amplify the sound by -10 DB. could someone explain to me exactly how I would do this in REAPER, either an OS X or windows? Note, I've not installed any add-ons for  REAPER. If they are recommended   to make it more accessible please include a reference link so that I can download any addons that you recommend!
So that's great if I want to import audio recorded out in the field through third-party sources, normally my phone. However, what if I wanted to record a podcast live, directly within REAPER? Could someone also advise on how I could do this, as I've never recorded anything within the REAPER Application itself before.
Make today the best day of your life, and then do it again tomorrow.
Thanks for your help

Michael Babcock
Your Blind Digital Marketing Partner.
@payown on periscope and twitter.
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