hey, I am looking to eliminate peaks and valleys from audio files using a mac, I need some software that is really easy to use and can help me take the audio files that I am recording with a digital voice recorder from being really loud at some points and really soft at others, to a generally consistent tone, I understand that these are peaks and valleys and I could really use some help and advice as to how i might be able to work this out on a mac...... any and all insights are greatly appreciated! Thanks so much and have a beautiful day! Peace, Teddy

This is called audio compression, or limiting, and most mac audio editors have this ability.. For your purposes, there's a very full- featured open source (free) audio editor called Audacity, that would fit the bill.. There's also soundstudio which is simpler to use,, but the creators of this app have decided to remove access to all versions older than a few months, so this won't run on anything earlier than Tiger..it's not free either.. The one I have used for years is soundedit16, which is the simplest easiest to use of all the pro audio apps.. It's OS9 or classic only, and was not free either, and now is long out of availability.. I'd recommend soundedit16, if you can find a copy..otherwise do a google search for 'Audacity'.. Should be easy to find...