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Levelling VST

Evo Terra recommends that podcast authors using Podiobooks should level their recordings using Levelator. However it's a pain because it only works with voice, causing horrible distortion in music. It also only works on wav files. You spend forever moving data in and out of your recording software.

I just discovered STEADY by Terry West. It's a plug-in piece of software called a VST which work with most professional sound studios such as Cakewalk and Cubase.

It works fine with Cakewalk Sonar 5 and saves me a lot of work.

http://rekkerd.org/terry-west-releases-steady/

Tags: audio, levelator, levelling

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Permalink Reply by Evo Terra on January 17, 2010 at 4:07pm: I assume this is performing the leveling and normalization as you record your voice? If so, excellent.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Wyken Seagrave on January 17, 2010 at 10:21pm: No, it levels as you listen. You also need to normalise a track manually, at least within Cakewalk, as I haven't found a VST to do this, but then I haven't looked.

Also I've found that if you have recordings with 14 tracks, as I do with some episodes (one for each voice which are processed using VST's to create the vocal effects of some character's voices) then the processor of my quad processor PC can't cope. Luckily not all characters speak in every episode so it probably isn't a problem.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Kafer - Male Voice talent on January 18, 2010 at 2:32am: There's no way to normalize as you record.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Evo Terra on January 18, 2010 at 8:24am: Well, not without expensive hardware. Hence my question. :); ▶ Reply to This

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