Update: The very nice Mr. Hathaway has introduced me to something called Levelator that works wonders on the audio levels, making them nice and loud without peaking and also doing some fancy normalization tricks. I love it a lot, but it messes with the “theme song” I use to close the episodes so I’m trying to figure out whether the benefit is worth picking a different song or just dealing with the weirdness. For some reason it doesn’t affect the other music bumpers I picked.

Man, this audio stuff is hard. Sorry about the volume levels on the first podcasts. I’m still figuring this stuff out.