Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Levelator .... and oh yeah, Happy New Year











First post of Oh-Eight...Here we go

This next piece of software (which is also totally free, even for commercial use) is awesome. It's called The Levelator and it can make your podcast or speech or whatever....well....well it will just sound better.
It's software that runs on Windows, OS X , or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next. Now you are probably thinking I mean a compressor, nope. It's not a compressor. It's not a normalizer.It's not a limiter. It does contain all three of these though. It seems to do more than most of these tools with one drag and drop of a file. I'm sure you could do a better job by using all of the above mentioned tools one by one in a couple of hours but this is seriously "drag and drop" it does the rest and fast.

Have you ever recorded a conversation, interview or podcast and ended up with different sound levels because of variations in peoples voices or distance to mic, etc. Well this little tool will fix them in seconds.
Anyway, don't take my word for it. Try the Levelator yourself for free. Let us know what you think.

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