Saturday, February 9, 2008

Using Levelator

Levelator-1.2.1-screen


For those of you who may be new to podcasting, I wanted to tell you about
Levelator
– created by the effervescently charming Bruce Sharpe! which is a free tool you can download to even out the volume of your recording.You can find Levelator at
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After you have downloaded Levelator, drag a .wav file (recorded audio file)into the Levelator window on your desktop. Like magic, within the duration of a few seconds, it creates another .wav file with smoother levels of volume in the recording (less peaks and valleys of volume).

This is especially useful for recorded conversations in which one speaker has a soft voice (like mine) and the other has a more powerful voice (like my friend’s voice). The Levelator brings those volumes closer together, and the result is a recording that is more pleasing to listen to.

You may still have to do some additional sound editing to make your podcast sound its best, but Levelator is fun and easy to try.

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