Podcasting
Spoken-word audio has its own rules: clarity over color, consistent loudness over dynamics. These guides are written for the podcaster who edits their own show and wants it to sound like a produced one.
- Audacity
- Podcasting
- Mixing & mastering
How to make audio louder in Audacity: normalize, compress and limit
Which of Audacity’s five volume effects to use and when — Normalize, Amplify, Compressor, Limiter and Loudness Normalization — with the steps for each in the order that works, the loudness targets Apple Podcasts and Spotify publish, the mistakes that turn louder into distorted, and the plugins that go past the built-ins.
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