Why your hand goes to the volume mid-podcast
The host is loud, the guest is quiet, and you turn it up and down the whole drive. Where that gap comes from, and why even good editing usually leaves it.
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Why it happens, and what you can do
Posts about the gap between host and guest, what happens to a voice on its way from the studio to the car, and the numbers behind the demo.
Why a well-edited episode still jumps in volume
The level of an episode and the level of a conversation are two separate problems. Normalisation fixes the first. The host-guest gap belongs to the second.
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Four numbers from one minute of a sample show: the speaker gap and the overall level, before and after. What each measures, and why the second pair matters.
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