I was catching up on some podcasts today and heard the guys on TWIT talking about using The Levelator on the audio for their podcast. Of course I had to go check it out. It is a little software app that adjusts variations in audio levels within an audio file. Just drag and drop your audio file into The Levelator's window and it spits out a new version of the file with the level variations reduced. I tried it out on a clip I had where one speaker was pretty loud and another spoke very soft and it did a pretty good job on it. This is not an audio editor and there aren't any settings to adjust. It's being promoted in the podcasting world, but there might be an occasion where you need a quick fix and don't feel like busting out the big gun editor. It's free, and it's available for Mac and Windows.
