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FREE | Win Mac Linux VST VST3 AU CLAP LV2 | 83 MBPodcast Plugins are easy-to-use plugins for speech enhancement, specifically designed for podcasters who can't or don't want to dig deeper into the craft of sound engineering.
The bundle consists of two plugins:
PodcastPlugins TRACK:
This plugin is inserted on the individual audio tracks of all speakers. It wil take care of level, equalisation and dynamic processing.
PodcastPlugins MASTER:
This plugin is inserted on the audio master bus of the DAW. It will shape the sound some more and take care of levels and dynamics.
Usage:
PocastPlugins TRACK
TRACK is the actual speech-enhancement plugin. It goes on each individual track of each speaker.
The default setting of the TRACK plugin will be fine in most cases. You can close the plugin window and just let it do it's thing.
If you want to tweak the sound further, read advanced settings.
Advanced Settings
Advanced Settings for PodcastPlugins TRACK
With the two big knobs in the middle, you can tweak the sound of your speaker:
TIMBRE
TIMBRE controls if the speaker should sound warmer or brighter.
The middle position will work for most voices. It's more or less a question of taste. Extreme settings (+/-5) will still sound good.
STYLE
STYLE controls the estethics of the processing. It ranges from natural to radio-ish.
The middle position will work for most voices.
natural features decent dynamic range control while keeping the natural sound of the voice.
radio-ish features heavier dynamic range compression, known from the sound of speakers on comercial FM radio stations.
INPUT GAIN and TARGET LOUDNESS
INPUT GAIN
Here you can control the volume of the incoming audio before it hits the plugin's processing, although the following leveler stage will take care of the correct loudness anyway. It makes sense when you want to take care of the loudness yourself and the leveler therefore is bypassed.
The green and red brackets indicate a good and bad level.
TARGET LOUDNESS
The standard loudness for podcasts is -16dB LUFS. If for some reason you want to work at a lower loudness (or higher, not recommended), you can set it here.
PodcastPlugin MASTER
MASTER is an automatic leveling and mastering plugin which will take care of the final touch of your podcast. It goes on the master channel of your DAW project.
The default setting of the MASTER plugin will be fine in most cases. You can close the plugin window and just let it do it's thing.
If you want to tweak the sound further, read advanced settings:
Advanced Settings for PodcastPlugins MASTER
With the two big knobs in the middle, you can tweak the overall sound of your podcast:
TIMBRE
TIMBRE controls if the overall sound should sound warmer or brighter.
The middle position will work fine in most cases. It's more or less a question of taste. Extreme settings (+/-5) are not so much recommended.
STYLE
STYLE controls the estethics of the processing. It ranges from natural to radio-ish.
The middle position will work fine in most cases. Extreme settings (+/-5) are not so much recommended.
natural features decent dynamic range control while keeping the natural sound of your podcast.
radio-ish features heavier dynamic range compression, known from the sound of comercial FM radio stations.
INPUT GAIN and TARGET LOUDNESS
INPUT GAIN
Here you can control the volume of the incoming audio before it hits the plugin's processing, although the following leveler stages will take care of the correct loudness anyway. It makes sense when you want to take care of the loudness yourself and the leveler therefore is bypassed.
TARGET LOUDNESS
The standard loudness for podcasts is -16dB LUFS. If for some reason you want to work at a lower loudness (or higher, not recommended), you can set it here.
Technical Details
DSP (digital signal processing)
The DSP is written in Faust by Klaus Scheuermann.
PodcastPlugins TRACK
image of signal flow diagram
The plugin's processing consists of 5 stages:
Input Gain: nothing fancy here ;)
Spectral Balancer: The audio is split into 20 bands. Each band is normalized against the wideband loudness of the audio resultig the actual momentary frequency spectrum of the incoming signal. The resulting curve is compared to a target frequency curve carefully chosen based on 20 years of vocal mixing experience. 20 bandpass filters are then adjusted, so the spectrum of the audio matches the target curve. Actually there are two curves to interpolate between with the TIMBRE knob: a warmer one and a brighter one. The intensity of the Spectral Balancer can be adjusted with the strength parameter.
Leveler: a nicely tweaked leveling algorithm with an adjustable target loudness (in LUFS).
Multiband Dynamics: classic multiband compressor/expander with two presets to interpolate between: natural & radio-ish.
Brickwall limiter: a lookahead limiter to avoid peaks.
PodcastPlugins MASTER
image of signal flow diagram
The plugin's processing consists of 5 stages:
Leveler 1: a nicely tweaked leveling algorithm with an adjustable target loudness (in LUFS).
Tilt EQ: a soft tilt EQ consisting of two shelves which can be adjusted with the TIMBRE knob.
Multiband Dynamics: classic multiband compressor/expander with two presets to interpolate between: natural & radio-ish.
Leveler 2: a second leveling stage, very slow and subtile.
Brickwall limiter: a lookahead limiter to avoid peaks.
The GUI requires an OpenGL2 capable graphics card (or software rendering e.g. via MESA on Linux).
A "theme editor" is available when clicking the plugin name, allowing to customise the UI colors and a few sizes. Clicking "Save" will store it locally on disk so next time the UI is open it will use this as the startup theme.
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