In Part 3 of our series on Podcast Editing with Waves Content Creator Toolkit, Brent March focuses on the Playlist Rider. Brent walks us through how the plugin - when applied to the master channel - can be used in your content to ensure that levels stay consistent. Ideal if you’re a podcaster, live streamer, video creator or live sound engineer dealing with multiple audio sources.

Playlist Rider plugin from Waves does this automatically and non-destructively - preserving the natural dynamics of your sources - by simply adjusting their volume in real time. Ignoring low-volume parts, like background noise or music fade-ins and fade-outs, using a dedicated input detector threshold, the plugin normalises your audio sources to pink tonal curves, to smooth out tonal differences between sources and further improve your program’s consistency.

Playlist Rider works in most major audio and video editing software making it a must-have tool for podcasters, live streamers, video creators and live engineers who want smooth audio quality.

• Smooths out the volume levels of multiple audio sources

• Sets volume to meet the selected target, automatically and in real time

• Nondestructive adjustment that preserves the source’s dynamic range

• Fast or slow attack times

• Tonal character shaper for smoothing out tonal differences

• Input detector threshold for low-volume part exclusion

For more information, or to download a demo of Playlist Ride - head over to Waves’ website