DaVinci Resolve (Fairlight)
If you already edit video in Resolve, Fairlight is a genuinely powerful audio suite hiding inside it for free, but it's overkill to install just for audio.
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Fairlight is the dedicated audio page built into DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic Design's video editor, and it's a shockingly complete audio post-production tool for something bundled free with an NLE. It has a proper mixer, bus routing, ADR tools, and loudness metering.
For video podcasters who already cut their episodes in Resolve, staying in Fairlight to mix dialogue means never exporting stems to a separate DAW, which saves a round trip.
It's not the tool to reach for if your show is audio only, since you'd be installing a large video application just to use one page of it, when a dedicated audio editor would be lighter and faster to open.
The learning curve is steep if you've never touched Resolve before, the interface borrows conventions from film post-production, not from typical podcast tools.
Sources for this review
- Official product website · Checked 2026-08-27
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