For podcasters
Broadcast-quality sound without an engineer
Get the noise, the room and the level right on every episode, in the time it takes to make a coffee.
What actually 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's 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 — and your episodes probably aren't hitting it. That's why your show is quieter than the one that plays 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. Separate tracks are better, but they're not required.
- 02
It finds what's wrong
Background noise, mains hum, room, clicks, a laptop fan, one person clipping. Each of those is a different problem, and each gets the fix that suits it rather than one filter applied to everything.
- 03
Voices get evened out
Levels are matched between speakers and across the episode, so nobody has to lean 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 speech platforms expect, so it plays at the same volume as everything else in someone's feed. You don't need to know the number.
Questions
What people ask before starting
- Two people recorded at different volumes — can that be fixed?
- Yes, and it is the most common thing we are asked. Levelling the speakers against each other is part of the job, not something you have to ride a fader for afterwards.
- What about the hum and the room noise?
- Those are two different problems and they get two different treatments — a steady hum is removed almost surgically, a room is reduced rather than deleted. Treating them as one problem with one filter is what makes voices sound underwater.
- Do I need to understand loudness targets?
- No. The episode comes out at the level speech platforms expect, so it plays at the same volume as everything else in a feed. The number exists, and you do not have to learn it.
- Can I run a back catalogue through it?
- Yes. Old episodes are usually the easiest win, because the fixes are the same every time and nobody has to re-record anything.
- Will it make me sound like someone else?
- No. It removes what is in the way — noise, uneven levels, room — rather than adding a character on top. If a voice sounds processed, that is a failure, not a style.
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