MIKELOSS

Podcasting & Audio Tools

Free, practical calculators for every stage of a recording — size your export, estimate an episode's run time, work out bitrate, hit a loudness target, dial in mic distance, and tame a room's reverb. Educational tools for planning your audio, not professional engineering advice.

Audio File Size Calculator

Estimate the megabytes an episode will take from its bitrate or WAV settings and run time — for MP3 and uncompressed WAV — so you know upload and hosting sizes before you export

Podcast Episode Length Estimator

Turn a script's word count and your speaking pace into a run time, or add up your segments, to hit a target episode length before you ever press record

Audio Bitrate Calculator

Work out the uncompressed bitrate from sample rate, bit depth, and channels — in kbps and megabytes per minute — to size raw recordings and pick an export setting

LUFS Loudness Target Calculator

Compare your measured loudness to a platform target like -14 or -16 LUFS and get the exact gain change, with a true-peak clipping check before you publish

Mic Distance & Gain Calculator

Use the inverse-square law to see how moving toward or away from the microphone changes your level in decibels, and the make-up gain needed to keep it even

RT60 Reverb Time Estimator

Estimate a room's reverb time from its dimensions and surface absorption with the Sabine formula, and see whether the space needs acoustic treatment for clean voice