Narrative audio post · New York, NY

Mastered to −16 LUFS and back in your inbox in five business days.

Dialogue edit, sound design and a platform-ready master for independent true-crime, mystery and fiction podcasts. Billed per episode from $340, or as a six-episode mini-season at $1,780.

Send an episode for a quote Or call the desk: (917) 238-6726
Built for
  • Cold-case true crime
  • Locked-room mystery
  • Audio drama
  • Serialized fiction
−16 LUFS int.−1.0 dBTP48 kHz / 24-bit
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REC 00:14:20
On the desk
  • Cold-case true crime
  • Locked-room mystery
  • Audio drama
  • Horror anthology
  • Docu-fiction

The signal path

Dialogue, design, master: three passes on every episode.

Each episode moves through the same three passes, in order, so every decision is made once and stays made.

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Pass 01 · Dialogue edit

Cuts you can’t hear, silence that sounds like a room

Crosstalk, mouth clicks, plosives and dropped takes come out. Every cut gets room tone laid under it, so the gap between sentences has a floor instead of a hole. Interview and narration are level-matched within 2 dB before any processing touches them.

  • Room tone under every cut
  • De-click and de-plosive
  • Level-match before EQ
00:0000:3001:00 DIALOGUEFOLEYAMBIENCEMUSIC VO · scene 1witness 2VO · scene 2 doorsteps rain bed, interiordiner room tone cue 03 · ducks −12 dB under VO
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Pass 02 · Sound design

Scenes built in lanes: dialogue, Foley, ambience, music

Ambience beds are built per scene, not per episode. Footsteps, door latches and phone handsets sit on their own Foley lane. Music ducks under dialogue by sidechain, then a hand-drawn automation pass catches the words the compressor misses.

  • Per-scene ambience
  • Foley on its own lane
  • Music cue sheet delivered
INTEGRATED LOUDNESS · STEREO MASTER −16.0 LUFS −30−24−16 target−9−1 dBTP Mono feeds: −19 LUFS · MP3 re-measured after encode
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Pass 03 · Master

One loudness target, checked on the way out

Stereo masters land at −16 LUFS integrated with a −1.0 dBTP true-peak ceiling; mono feeds at −19 LUFS. Each file is A/B’d against your reference episode, and the final MP3 is re-measured after encoding, because encoders add peaks.

  • −16 LUFS stereo
  • −1.0 dBTP ceiling
  • Re-measured post-encode

Pricing

One episode at a time, or the whole mini-season.

Both include all three passes, a measured master and written revision rounds. An episode runs up to 35 minutes finished; past that it’s $9 per extra minute.

Pay as you go

Single episode

$340per episode, up to 35 min
  • Dialogue edit and cleanup
  • Ambience, Foley and music placement
  • Master to −16 LUFS / −1.0 dBTP
  • Two revision rounds, 48-hour turnaround each
  • First pass in five business days
Book one episode
Mini-season · 6 episodes

Season package

$1,780≈ $297 per episode, $260 under six singles
  • Everything in the single-episode job, six times
  • One shared sound palette: ambience and music built once, matched across the season
  • 45-minute spotting call before episode one
  • Season-wide loudness match, three revision rounds per episode
  • 60-second trailer cut included ($240 on its own)
Reserve a season slot

Add-ons, priced per episode

  • Foley pass for key scenes$95
  • Music search and cue sheet$65
  • Trailer or cold-open cut$240
  • Transcript and chapter markers$45
  • 48-hour rush+$120
  • Each minute past 35$9

Delivery spec

Specs that hold on every platform.

Every master leaves with the same numbers on the sheet, so your show sits where listeners expect it, on earbuds, phone speakers and car stereos alike.

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−16LUFS integrated, stereo
−1.0dBTP true-peak ceiling
48/24kHz / bit WAV master
128kbps MP3 with chapters

If you can hear the edit, the edit failed. If you can hear the room, I left it there on purpose.

House rule at Raven Tinor, Apt 4H

Timeline

Questions, in the order you’ll ask them.

  1. 1 Day 0

    What do I send?

    Raw multitrack WAVs or a locked stereo mixdown, your script or cue notes, and one reference episode you want to sound like. Files that land before 4pm get a spec check for sample rate, clipping and missing tracks the same day.

  2. 2 Day 5

    How long until I hear a first pass?

    Five business days from a clean upload. That’s a finished dialogue edit with sound design in place, not a rough sketch. Need it sooner? A 48-hour rush is +$120 per episode.

  3. 3 +48 hours

    What if the first pass misses?

    Send notes with timecodes; “cut the second breath at 14:20” is plenty. Single episodes include two revision rounds, mini-seasons three, each turned around in 48 hours.

  4. 4 Delivery

    What do I get back, and how do I pay?

    A 24-bit / 48 kHz WAV master, a 128 kbps MP3 with chapter markers, and a one-page cue sheet of every music and SFX source. Invoiced per episode or per package; mini-seasons are half up front, half on delivery. Card or ACH.

Contact

Reach the desk, daily 9am–4pm.

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Call the desk

(917) 238-6726

Daily 9am–4pm. Spotting calls run 20 minutes, cost nothing, and end with a written quote for your episode.

Ring the desk

Send a share link

info@raventinor.com

Drive, Dropbox or WeTransfer link plus the runtime and episode count. Quote back within one working day.

Email the files link

What to have ready for the first call

  • Episode count and running time per episode
  • Raw multitracks or a stereo mixdown, and the recording software used
  • Script or cue notes, even rough ones
  • One reference episode, yours or someone else’s, to match
Invoiced per episode or package. Pay by: VISA AMEX ACH