Led stereo VU-meter

...agree with a comment above. There are some helpful people mixed with useless comments on this forum.

have you tried outputting your led array to the serial plotter?

add to setup()

Serial.begin(115200);

then in your for loop add

Serial.println(ledl*);*
access serial monitor from tools, the talk (or hum a constant level) into you mic. Maybe the mics output voltages are too small to detect.