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I'm happy that the audio quality significantly improved from the first episode. But still Patrick is a lot quieter than Keith - which leads me to adjust volume constantly.

I don't know your setup, but maybe use a multi-track recording software and then adjust each speaker's track to match volume.

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Thanks for the comment. I'll tell the audio engineer to add it to the list of things he adjusts for. Episode 6 is already in the can but ideally it will be better for you after episode 7.

On that note, Patrick, ask him to move your audio to be in the center (stereo wise), rather than entirely on the right channel as it is now. If you listen with headphones to this episode, Keith is spread across both left and right while you are solely on the right channel. Confusing to the ears.

Still listening, but as always, great episode thus far!

I fixed this by pulling out the headphone plug slightly from the jack...

Levelator [1] does a great job of leveling audio between guests, I'd suggest running it on old episodes too.

[1] http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

>maybe use a multi-track recording software and then adjust each speaker's track to match volume.

Or just a compressor/limiter on the whole shebang will do a good job of normalizing the audio levels.

http://auphonic.com/blog/2011/07/25/loudness-normalization-a...

http://www.hometracked.com/2008/04/20/10-myths-about-normali...

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