I'm Kris Smith. I am a podcaster and Founder/CEO of Palegroove Studios a podcast production company. I've been podcasting for nearly two years with over 400 total podcast episodes under my belt and a great list of clients.

In an effort to keep it short and get on with this conversation I will stop talking about myself and mention a new audio production tool called Levelator and comes from GigaVox Media.

Levelator was announced two weeks ago at Podcast Academy 4 in Ontario, CA by GigaVox. Those in attendance were given a quick demo of the software and then asked to test it out ourselves. I loved and love it.

I'm not going to get audio nerdy about this and try to describe why it works better than other audio normalization tools and plug-ins currently available. And it isn't just simply an audio normalization tool. I'll simply say it will save you time.

I care so much about this application for one reason: it was designed by podcasters. As podcasting matures many of us have started to develop our own tools to do the jobs that we need done because many of the pre-existing ones either don't work for what we need them to do or they take too much time to use.

Levelator is on a short list of applications that are podcaster-centric but as we move forward I expect that list to get longer as other podcasters hit the wall and need their software to perform in ways that no one has imagined yet.

The Levelator runs on Win 2k, XP , Vista and Mac OS X 10.4.

I'll be back around later to check on this conversation . . . right now I need to refill this red Solo cup.