Your sermon is quieter than the platforms expect. Here is the same episode, mastered.

No - they solve different halves of the problem. Host-side normalisation applies one overall gain to the whole file so it hits a target loudness. That fixes an episode being too quiet, but it moves the quiet passages and the loud ones by the same amount, so the swing between them is unchanged. What we do on top of that is ride the gain within the episode: quiet passages come up towards the speaker's normal level while the loud ones stay where they are. If your host already normalises and listeners still reach for the volume mid-sermon, that is why. Run the free master on an already-normalised episode and compare - the numbers come back either way.

The free master needs no approval - no card, no account, nothing to cancel. If you then want to make the case internally, the download page shows your own before-and-after measurements on one screen, which is usually a shorter conversation than describing the problem in words.

Then start with the free master; it costs nothing and needs no sign-off. On the paid side, be honest about frequency: at four episodes a month this works out under $5 (£4) an episode, but if you publish once a month it is $19 (£15) for one file and you should think about whether that is worth it. Tell us what you actually publish and we will say whether it makes sense.

Two things: overall loudness against the -16 LUFS standard podcast platforms expect, and the swing between your quietest speech and your loudest - the thing that makes a listener reach for the volume control throughout an episode. Both are measured, not guessed at.

Clarity, room sound, microphone quality, and anything above about 8 kHz on a low-bitrate recording. Those are capture-side problems - a bad microphone, a reverberant room, low encode quality - and no amount of mastering after the fact can put back what the recording never captured. We would rather tell you that upfront than have you find out after paying for something that couldn't have worked.

Yes. Send a link to one recent episode, we master it for spoken word, and you get it back to compare against the original. No account, no card, no obligation to continue.

A sliding-window gain rider measures your speaker's normal speech level across the whole recording, then gently lifts quiet passages towards it and leaves loud ones alone - gated so pauses and room tone are never boosted. In verification testing this closed a 10 dB step between passages to well under 1 dB, with the noise floor unchanged.

Fine - the free master and the ongoing service both work at whatever cadence you actually publish. Weekly is simply the most common pattern we've measured.

No. We only need a link to (or a copy of) the audio itself. You publish the finished file yourself, wherever you already do.

Only if you tick a box saying so. Sending the free master back to you is not marketing - it is the thing you asked for.

Human sermon-audio services typically charge $200-350 for one episode, or several hundred dollars a month in retainers, because a person is doing it by hand. This is the same measured processing, run automatically, at a fraction of that - which is also why it can't fix things a trained ear could catch by hand, like a bad microphone placement. It is a different tool for a different budget, not a replacement for a full production service.