#LEVELATOR INCREASES BACKGROUND NOISE HOW TO#
#LEVELATOR INCREASES BACKGROUND NOISE FOR MAC#

The Levelator scans your original audio, adjusts the volume levels of all of the audio as it goes along, and when it’s finished, creates a new version of your audio that has more matched volume levels and, well, just sounds better. A group of podcasters, led by Doug Kaye, created it in the early 2000s to solve a thorny interviewing-over-the-internet issue: two people talking on a podcast at different volume levels with different microphones.

#LEVELATOR INCREASES BACKGROUND NOISE HOW TO#

So, I now also teach others how to use it, both in the VOHeroes curriculum and in the course I teach with Dan O’Day, the ACX Master Class. There’s yet another tool that I use, that has been orphaned from its previous use, but still works great. In ProTools, Logic, Audacity and other sound software, you can adjust RMS normalization, as described in ACX’s production and mastering standards: One solution is to add compression to your audio, either with a microphone pre-processor, or in your sound software. These two facts are at odds with one another. ( UPDATE: If you’re a Mac user, please scroll down to the section below on AudioCupcake – it does all that The Levelator does and more.)īecause audiobooks are listened to by people in high noise environments (cars, trucks, planes, etc), it’s imperative that every single word you say as an audiobook performer gets heard.Īnd sometimes, when you have a microphone with little or no pre-processing, the levels you speak at can vary greatly.

#LEVELATOR INCREASES BACKGROUND NOISE FOR MAC#

Better yet, download AudioCupcake, which has superseded The Levelator for Mac users.Click this link to download The Levelator for Windows.Click this link to download The Levelator for Mac.Here are links to download three different items: You’ll find a few links to download this tool (and the one that superseded it) at the very top of this article. From the world of podcasting production comes a tool that is also very useful if you’re narrating audiobooks, especially if you want to be compliant with one of ACX’s standards in one simple drag and drop step.

Levelator increases background noise