Curious to know, do podcasters use any software that balances the audio? I'm tempted to do some measurements after a particularly bad listen last night where the difference between guest and host was easily 10dB (Decibels are a logarithmic measure, a difference of 6dB is equal to doubling/halving of output).

Particularly anoying as an audio guy but I'm sure anyone listening would find it particularly difficult, especially if on earphones. I turned off after a few mins, was way too annoying. Folks say about listening to 40 hours per week but with the level mismatch, this works out at closer to 8 hours as 32 hours were inaudible.

If you're a podcaster, there's plugins that can do this stuff that work in your DAW. I appreciate sometimes guests have bad recording environments but this is basic levels stuff, both voices should be around the same amplitude (who knew!? lol).

I actually just went to the podcaster's site to email them about the issue but the only links I found were for Spotify, LinkedInPark, Instagram, Facebacon and X so fuck them lol.

I'll just try some other, non fiat, podcast instead. Or maybe I should do a 10 hour pod called What Is Audio? Hmmm....