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I've worked in broadcast audio for over 20 years. FOH, TV production, studio. During that time I've come home from recordings with a feeling I know all too well — how am I going to get rid of this echo?

It was at one of those moments, about five years ago, that I came across De-Verberate 3. I had a recording made in a church entrance with a shotgun mic out of frame. The echo was total. The room dominated everything. Then I ran De-Verberate. My jaw dropped. It wasn't that the echo was reduced, or that things got a little better. It was that there was simply a perfectly isolated voice left. The room was gone. It was one of those moments when you understand that something has changed.

My colleagues who are TV producers will sometimes say to me: "this sounds rough — what's wrong with it?" And I can tell them: you're compressing too hard. Or: you've boosted 10 dB at 2.5 kHz. They hear that something is wrong. I hear exactly what it is. Not because I'm smarter. Because I've been listening to it for 20 years. That's the ear PodMaster is trained on.

The problem with podcasting isn't that people don't care how it sounds. The problem is that the tools either require you to understand what 2.5 kHz means — or they fix it in a way that sounds even stranger than the original. I've listened to too many episodes where an interesting guest is being interviewed over Zoom, on a laptop's built-in microphone, in an echoey room. The topic is fascinating. The audio makes it impossible to listen to the end.

PodMaster is built to solve it.

— Marcus, Saltwaves Studio