What is compression and what problems does it solve? Give me ten minutes and I'll tell you all about it. Well, as much as I can in ten minutes!
The short version is that a compressor reduces the dynamic range of a recording. Let's find out why that's useful. 

PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic
Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: Facing into my closet (I'm not liking the sound here. Sounds muffled and boxy. I guess the mic is being shielded too much)
Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono)
Editing app (and EQ) : Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Episode art: Canva
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file

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