I recently had a situation in which I attended and recorded a meeting in a conference room. I used a hand-held tape recorder with a built-in mic for recording, as that’s all I had on hand. Unfortunately, those furthest from the mic were difficult to hear, and the room’s ambient noise proved more distracting than I had anticipated.
I applied some EQ to the recording, used Bias SoundSoap to reduce the ambient noise, then ran the audio through GigaVox Media’s free The Levelator (Mac/PC) to see what it could do to bring those faraway voices in line with those closest to the mic. With pretty incredible results, The Levelator performed as advertised. Voices furthest from the mic were indeed boosted, while the voices closest to the recorder were left untouched.
