For context, I've been excited to make a small commentary video on a Mario Kart game, but I cannot for the life of me get the audio levels right. It's mainly because my ears are a little sensitive and I get constantly paranoid about things being too loud.

I've recently learnt that YouTube manipulates the volume of your video behind the scenes to accommodate for a different measurement of volume (not db), which is probably why my audio was much lower than it should've been...