page_title: Levelator
section_title: Functioning
hierarchical_section_title: Levelator / Functioning
context_page_description: The Levelator is a software application that makes adjustments to audio signals.
context_section_description: The Levelator adjusts the audio levels within an audio segment by combining traditional discrete compression, normalization and limiting processing. By taking a global view of the data in various time segments (both long and short), the Levelator automatically balances various audio levels, such as multiple microphone levels in an interview or panel discussion, or segments combined from multiple sessions that were recorded at different levels. The Levelator can read and process PCM audio files of many sample rates and resolutions.
  The Levelator reads the original audio file and creates a new audio file with balanced levels and a uniform overall volume level that is then saved in the same format as the original, but with ".output " added to the file name. Only PCM audio source files are supported (most major file formats, including WAV and AIFF). Lossy compressed audio is not supported, encouraging use of The Levelator at the correct point in the production chain - i.e. before lossy encoding to the delivery format such as MP3.
caption: Screenshot of before and after renderings of an audio sample adjusted by the Levelator as seen in Audacity
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