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• #RUN HARD LIMITER BEFORE OR AFTER LEVELATOR FOR FREE#

You may have heard me refer to it from time to time, especially if you’ve ever been to the live show (Sunday nights at 5pm Pacific Time at /live.

Even if you thought things were fine, you’d still run it through The Levelator before publishing. It became an integral part of every podcaster’s toolkit.

#RUN HARD LIMITER BEFORE OR AFTER LEVELATOR FOR FREE#

The best thing that ever happened to podcasting was when Doug made The Levelator available for free for all podcasters. Volunteer reporters for the network were required to drop their uncompressed recording files onto The Levelator and it would smooth out the audio making it listenable. They created a very simple tool called The Levelator. Doug dreamed up the idea of a tool that would make the levels the same across all interviews, and got developers, Bruce and Malcom Sharpe along with Norman Lorrain and Russell Heistuman to turn that vision a reality. They were doing interviews but the audio levels of their voice and the voices of their interviewees was all over the map. It was a crazy time.īut Doug realized that he had a problem with all these volunteers. We were talking about how the FCC couldn’t tell us what to do, how you could release shows any time you wanted to, no schedules needed. This is around 2004/2005 when we were just realizing that we were in the wild wild west of broadcasting. Doug’s idea was to create a series of podcasts by a global team of volunteers. Back in the very very early days of podcasting, there was The Conversations Network, a non-profit headed up by Doug Kay.