the pilot
$415
One episode, all five stations
- Up to 60 minutes of finished audio
- One round of timestamped revisions
- Reviewable master within 72 hours
- Published to your feed on approval
00:00:00 — podcast production, Bronx, NY
every episode leaves the bronx at −16 lufs.
Kalliope Audio produces podcasts for brands and independent hosts. You send raw takes; we return an episode edited for pace, mixed for clarity, mastered to the loudness the platforms expect, written up, and published to your feed.
Billed per engagementPilot episode $415Single episodes in 72 hours
00:04:12 — the signal path
five stations between the raw take and the published feed
Buy one station or the whole path. Prices are per episode for runtimes up to sixty minutes; anything longer is quoted on the scoping call, before a single file changes hands.
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Station 01
edit
Dialogue edited by ear, not by algorithm. False starts, crosstalk and the third “you know” go where they cost attention, and stay where they carry personality.
from $185/ episode -
Station 02
mix
Per-voice EQ and compression, spectral repair of hum and HVAC, music beds ducked under speech, room tone matched across every cut.
$140/ episode -
Station 03
master
Integrated loudness to −16 LUFS, true peak held under −1 dBTP, then a final listen on monitors, earbuds and a phone speaker.
$65/ episode -
Station 04
show notes
A summary written like a magazine standfirst, chapter timestamps, guest links and two social captions in your house style.
$55/ episode -
Station 05
distribute
Uploaded to your host, ID3 tags and artwork checked, episode scheduled to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the rest of the feed.
$40/ episode
or book the whole path as one engagement
Each engagement is scoped in writing after the call. One invoice, one engineer for the run, one round of revisions per episode.
the season
$2,960
Eight episodes — $370 each
- All five stations on every episode
- A 60–90 second trailer cut from your best moments
- A tone and loudness reference built for your show
- A publishing calendar agreed before episode one
the brand series
from $6,850
Twelve episodes for a company show
- Intro, outro and transition sound design
- A pre-production call before each episode
- Stem delivery for your video editor
- Legal and brand review rounds built into the schedule
00:11:38 — the specification
four figures we do not negotiate
Taste is arguable. Specifications are not. Every master we deliver meets these, and every delivery note says so in writing.
−16
LUFS integrated
The stereo loudness target Apple Podcasts recommends, so your episode sits level with the one before it in the queue.
−1
dBTP true peak
A ceiling that survives the platforms’ MP3 and AAC encoders without a single clipped consonant.
48/24
kHz · bit session
Our working format, whatever you recorded on — a phone, a Zoom call or a proper interface.
72
hours to master
From received files to a reviewable master on single episodes. Seasons run to a calendar we agree up front.
00:17:05 — the house view
a good edit is the one nobody hears.
Notes from the edit desk at 4001 White Plains, Bronx, NY.
Most podcasts don’t lose listeners to bad ideas. They lose them in the fourth minute — to a sentence that circles twice before landing, to a guest twelve decibels quieter than the host, to a music bed that never quite gets out of the way.
We treat production as editing in the magazine sense: decide what the piece is, then remove everything that argues with it. A pause stays because it lands a joke. A tangent goes because it buries one. Neither call is made by software.
So we work slowly where it matters and quickly where it doesn’t. The razor comes out for pace; the meters come out for compliance; the conversation stays recognisably human — breaths, laughs and all.
what people ask on the first call
Do you record, or only produce?
We produce from your files. Most shows record remotely on Riverside or Zencastr, or locally on an interface; before your first session we send a one-page recording brief so the raw material arrives usable.
How is an engagement billed?
Per engagement, never by subscription. After the scoping call you approve a written scope and price, and we invoice against exactly that — no hourly meter running in the background.
What if the first edit isn’t right?
Every episode includes one full round of revisions from timestamped notes. Pilot clients usually spend it calibrating: how tight the pacing, how much of the host’s laugh survives.
Can you take over a show already in progress?
Yes. Send two published episodes and the raw files of the next; we match the existing sound first and only suggest changes once your audience wouldn’t notice the handover.
00:23:50 — inside the studio
three desks your episode crosses
The stations above happen in three places, each with its own tools and its own discipline. Here is what your recording meets at each one.
Desk one — the edit
the razor desk
Two passes on every recording: one for structure, read like a transcript; one for rhythm, heard at full speed. Cuts land on breaths, never on consonants.
Desk two — the mix
nearfields, earbuds, phone speaker
Every mix is checked on three systems, because your audience listens on all three — usually on the subway, occasionally in the car, rarely in a quiet room.
Desk three — the feed
published, tagged, scheduled
The last station is clerical and we take it seriously: episode and season numbers, chapter markers, artwork checked at 3000 × 3000, and a publish time that suits your listeners rather than ours.
00:31:24 — open a session
tell us about the show; we’ll come back with a scope and a price
Calls are by appointment. What it is, who it’s for, how often it lands — that’s enough for a first conversation and a written quote.
the brief
Before episode one, send us
the raw-file checklist
- WAV or FLAC, 48 kHz — 24-bit if your recorder allows it.
- One file per microphone, never a mixed-down stereo track.
- Thirty seconds of room tone, everyone silent, every mic live.
- Names spelled as they should be read, and pronounced as they should be heard.
Hours
By appointment — book a call
Scoping calls run about thirty minutes and cost nothing.
Invoices settle by
Card or bank transfer, against the scope you approved.
00:36:00 — last segment
send one raw episode. hear it mastered in seventy-two hours.
The pilot is $415: edited, mixed, mastered to −16 LUFS, written up and published to your feed. If it sounds like your show on its best day, we’ll talk about the season.