Edit · Mix · Master · Show notes · Distribution
00:00:00 — about the studio
Kalliope Audio is a podcast production studio in the north Bronx. One engineer takes each show from raw takes to published feed — edit, mix, master, show notes, distribution — and every decision along the way is written into the delivery note.
00:03:40 — liner notes
Kalliope — Calliope, in the usual English spelling — was the eldest of the nine Muses, the one the Greeks credited with eloquence and epic poetry. We took the name as an instruction rather than a decoration.
Eloquence, in the old sense, was never about a beautiful voice. It was about an argument that held its shape from first line to last — the right thing said in the right order, with nothing in the way. That turns out to be a fair description of what a podcast editor is for.
Most of the shows that reach us are already good conversations. What they lack is shape. The guest finds the point in minute nineteen; the host’s best question arrives after a false start and a cough; the music comes in too loud and stays too long. None of that needs inventing. It needs deciding.
we don’t make people sound like someone else. we make them sound like themselves on the day everything went right.
— from the edit desk
So the studio is organised the way a good magazine desk is. One engineer owns your show from raw take to published feed, and the decisions are written down. A delivery note travels with every master — integrated loudness, true peak, what was cut and why — so nobody on your side has to take our ear on trust.
We work from 4001 White Plains, in the north Bronx, by appointment. Clients rarely visit; files arrive by link and leave the same way. The address still matters. It is where the listening happens, and it answers the question every brand eventually asks: who, exactly, is touching our show?
00:09:15 — the view from the desk
Most podcasts are heard on a commute — on earbuds, under a train, with half an ear on the next stop. We mix for that listener first: dialogue that survives a subway car, levels nobody reaches for between speakers, and a last check on a phone speaker before anything is called finished.
Mixed for the 2 and the 5, not the control room00:14:52 — the house rules
An EDL is the sheet an editor hands to the next room: every event, every decision, in order. Ours doubles as a statement of principle. It applies to every show we take on, whatever the engagement.
Title: Kalliope Audio — house rulesFCM: non-drop frame · 7 events
| Event | Decision | Material | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00100:00:12:04 | Keep | the laugh that lands |
Breaths, laughs and the half-second before a punchline stay. A conversation scrubbed of air stops sounding like people, and listeners notice before they can say why. |
| 00200:04:31:18 | Cut | the sentence that circles twice |
When a thought lands on the second attempt, the first attempt goes. Cuts fall on a breath, never across a consonant, so the seam stays inaudible. |
| 00300:11:02:09 | Level | the quiet guest |
Per-voice gain, EQ and compression before anything clever. If a listener has to touch the volume when the speaker changes, the mix has failed at its first job. |
| 00400:18:47:00 | Duck | the music bed |
Music serves the words or leaves. Beds sit under speech, swell only in the gaps, and are out before the next sentence starts. |
| 00500:23:15:22 | Match | the sound your audience knows |
On a show already running, we match the existing sound first. Changes are suggested only once the handover would pass unnoticed. |
| 00600:31:40:11 | Hold | the specification |
−16 LUFS integrated, −1 dBTP true peak, on every master, stated in every delivery note. Taste is open to discussion; compliance is not. |
| 00700:36:00:00 | the scope, before the files |
Every engagement is scoped and priced in writing after the call. We invoice against exactly that — no subscription, no hourly meter running in the background. |
00:22:08 — who sits in the chair
Kalliope Audio works with companies running a series and with hosts who already have something to say. The common thread is a recording worth shaping — not a volume of content to process.
Brand series need sound design that belongs to the company, a production rhythm that survives review rounds, and deliverables the video team can actually use.
from $6,850The brand series — twelve episodes
Request a series quoteHosts usually come to us with good conversations and no time to cut them. The pilot is the calibration: how tight the pacing runs, how much of the laugh survives.
$415 for the pilotThen $2,960 for an eight-episode season
Scope a pilot
00:36:00 — last segment
Tell us what the show is, who it’s for and how often it lands. We’ll come back with a written scope and a price — a single pilot episode is $415, edited, mixed, mastered to −16 LUFS, written up and published to your feed.