The Levelator, from GigaVox Media does one thing, does it well and has no bells and whistles to confuse you. In fact, it has no real settings at all. It takes your audio file (WAV and AIFF files at the moment) and normalizes the volume giving you a much more polished and co istent sounding podcast. It basically saves you what can often be hours of manual adjustments.Levelator requires Java 1.5 so it needs at least Mac OS X 10.4, but it's Universal Binary and free for personal non-commercial use. Ru on Windows too, if you care. It's in very early beta (Version 0.1b). The download page says "...the download and i tall mechanism is a little slo y. We'll be making this much nicer over the days and weeks to come, but we didn't want to hold back The Levelator, the core functionality of which is far more solid." In my limited testing this evening it seems to get the job done. I used a 20-second clip of a voicemail me age that has 2 of us eaking (one of us actually yelling from acro the room) and the original levels are horrible, as you might imagine. A lit second after I dro ed it onto The Levelator it was done and the difference in the playback audio was impre ive. I also found a pointer to How-To use The Levelator with GarageBand's compre ed files - which I think I'll be sending to our resident Podcast producer (I'm talking to you, Chartier) here at TUAW HQ.
If you da le in podcasts yourself, download this pu y and take it for a in. You might like it!
[via Steve Rubel's del.icio.us links]
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