Sound recording and editing services

Robert offers a lower-cost alternative to large studios, while still creating a high quality output. He specialises in audiobook recording, but is also available for podcasts and other spoken-word products.

Editing and mastering for previously recorded tracks is also available.

Facilities:

• Recording booth for up to two people
• Sound recording
• Editing
• Mixing and mastering

Low cost sessions are available for authors who wish to try out narrating their own books.

Rates

Introduction to audiobook narration: $100

A short one-hour session where you can come into the studio and learn the process for narrating your own books. If it doesn’t work for you, you can go on to find another narrator and continue from there. Either way, the cost of this session will be deducted from the next one you do.

 

Opening special: $2000

7 hours of finished product* (not including narrator). Perfect for cozy mysteries or short-form romance.

This includes:

• Set-up and optimisation for narrator’s voice
• Recording
• Editing
• Mastering
• Output will be ready for upload to audiobook hosts.
• Metadata can be added but must be provided by the author.

*as a guide, a 100 000 word novel will normally translate to around 10 hours finished. Rates for longer books negotiable.

 

Podcast recording: $50 an hour without editing.

The booth can accommodate two speakers, or be patched through to a Skype or Zoom interviewee.

This will give a high quality recording that you can take home to edit yourself, or have edited for you with the service below. 

 

Editing: $50 an hour.

This price assumes that the audios files have either been recorded by Robert (eg for a podcast) or are of reasonable quality. Poor quality recordings are more difficult and time consuming to edit, but can be done on negotiation.  Robert is available for Zoom tutorials on how to set up your home recording facility to get the best possible quality from your available equipment and environment.