Background:
I'm creating a narrative collage of two seperate audiobooks. I'm slicing and dicing the books into clips, and then rearranging them into a new narrative. The audiobooks are read by the same person, thus the new narrative will seem seamless. The audio is in the public domain. You probably get this a lot: I'm an audio n00b. I've played around with the graphic equalizer, but I know I'm missing something.
Problem:
One of the audiobooks has excellent quality narration. The other has poor quality. I know it's probably impossible to get a perfect quality match, but I would like to get close. The narrative collage will not seem seamless if the other book sounds vastly different.
Good Voice Recording:https://librivox.org/the-diary-of-a-dead-officer-by-arthur-graeme-west /
Bad Voice Recording:https://librivox.org/after-london-or-wild-england-by-richard-jefferies /
Is there a combination of effects that will get the Bad Voice close the Good Voice?
Any help would be greatly apprecited. If you are kind enough to respond, expliain it like I'm a five year old, because in terms of audio editing, I am.