Loudness

LUFS loudness normalisation for podcasts and video

Measured to the LUFS standard the platforms actually use, then corrected — so a series sounds like a series and nobody reaches for the volume between episodes.

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A standard, not a guess

LUFS measures perceived loudness over time, which is what a listener experiences. Peak level does not.

Consistent across a series

Every episode lands on the same target, so the back catalogue plays at one volume.

Last in the chain

It runs after the noise floor and the dead air are gone, so it normalises the finished recording rather than the mess.

Why "it sounded fine on my headphones" is not enough

Platforms normalise what you upload. If your file arrives far from their target, it is turned up or down on the way in — and anything you did to make it loud is undone, sometimes badly.

Delivering at the right loudness means what the listener hears is what you mixed, on every platform that carries it.

Where it sits in the job

Loudness is the final pass. The audio stays lossless through the whole chain and is encoded once at the end, so normalising does not mean decoding and re-encoding a file that has already been through three other tools.

Questions

Before you download

What target should a podcast use?

Most spoken-word podcasts are delivered around −16 LUFS for stereo. Check the platform you publish to; they publish their targets.

Will it squash the dynamics?

Normalisation moves the level to a target. It is not a compressor flattening everything to a wall.

Also in the app

The rest of the chain

Every tool below runs in the same job, on the same file, in the order that actually sounds right.

The free tier runs the same models on the same machine, with no account and no licence key. Install it and put a real file through it.

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