For podcasters
Broadcast-quality sound without an engineer
Clean voices, even levels and the right loudness on every episode, in the time it takes to make a coffee.
What gets in the way
One guest is always too quiet
Two people, two rooms, two microphones and two ideas about how close to sit. Evening that out by hand every week is the least interesting hour of making a show.
The room is in the recording
Spare bedrooms, kitchen tables and hotel desks all leave a signature, and it is the first thing that makes an episode sound amateur, before content, before editing, before anything you were actually worried about.
Nobody told you there was a loudness target
There is one, and your episodes are probably missing it. That is why your show sounds quieter than the one after it, and why listeners reach for the volume in between.
The workflow
How it goes
- 01
Drop in the episode
The whole recording, or each speaker's track if you have them separately. Video works too: the sound is taken out, cleaned and put back.
- 02
Pick what to clean
Traffic, chatter or music behind a voice? Keep only the voice. A steady hiss or a laptop fan? Reduce the noise. A hollow room, a mains hum, clicks or a guest clipping? Each has its own repair, and each one leaves the rest of the voice alone.
- 03
Voices get evened out
Speakers are brought to the same level and kept there across the episode, so nobody leans in for the quiet guest and nobody gets startled by the loud one.
- 04
It comes out at the right level
The finished episode comes out at the loudness podcast platforms expect, so it plays at the same volume as everything else in someone's feed. You never need to know the number.
For long recordings
Long-form hours
Podcasts, interviews, lectures, audiobook chapters: anything that runs 20 minutes or more is priced by the hour.
- 10 hours$0.90 an hour
- $9
- 30 hours$0.80 an hour
- $24
- 100 hours$0.69 an hour
- $69
Hours pay for restoration and mastering on any recording of 20 minutes or more, on any plan. The length is measured from the file you upload. A shorter recording never uses them; it uses plan or pack minutes as usual.
For a long recording, hours are spent first, then plan minutes, then pack minutes. On a paid plan mastering is already unlimited, so there hours are spent only on restoration. One recording can be up to 60 minutes long.
One-time purchase. Hours never expire. Unused long-form hours are refundable within fourteen days of purchase; once any of them are used, they are not.
Questions
What people ask before starting
- Two people recorded at different volumes: can that be fixed?
- Yes, and it is the thing we are asked most. Levelling the speakers against each other is part of the job, not something you ride a fader for afterwards.
- What about the hum and the room noise?
- They are different problems with different fixes. A steady hum is subtracted line by line and the voice is left alone. A room is reduced, not deleted, so the voice keeps its body. And noise that changes, like traffic or chatter, is taken away by keeping only the voice.
- Do I need to understand loudness targets?
- No. The episode comes out at the level podcast platforms expect, so it plays at the same volume as everything else in a feed. The number exists; you do not have to learn it.
- Can I run a back catalog through it?
- Yes. Old episodes are often the easiest win, because the fixes are the same every time and nobody has to record anything again.
- Will it make me sound like someone else?
- No. It takes away what is in the way, the noise, the uneven levels, the room, instead of adding a character on top. If a voice sounds processed, that is a failure, not a style.
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