29 Warren St, Staten Island, NY 10304 · By appointment — book a call
Edited, mixed and mastered in a quiet room on Warren Street. The coughs go, the breaths stay, the fridge hum lifts out like dust off a record — and the show notes and captioned audiograms arrive in the same folder as the master.
Rather write? projects@kalliopeaudiogroup.com
You’ll know the number before the first file uploads. Each rate covers up to sixty minutes of raw tape — the hour you talked, not the hours we spent with headphones on.
$185per episode
For shows that already sound good in the room and just need the tape tidied and polished.
$340per episode
The whole folder: the episode, plus everything you need to post it the same afternoon.
$2,4808 episodes · $310 each
For a season you want to sound like one piece — same room tone, same loudness, same hand on the fader.
Add any of these to any rate. Invoiced on delivery; Series runs are billed half at kickoff and half when episode four ships.
Every service, in more detail →Six small habits decide whether an edit spends its time repairing or polishing. Print this, tape it to the wall above the mic, and the episode comes back warmer.
Send it anyway. On the first call we’ll tell you plainly what can be rescued — and what can’t — before anything is invoiced.
Ask about your file: (718) 833-3606One mic, one file per person. When someone laughs over the end of a sentence, separate tracks let us lift the two apart.
MultitrackAn MP3 is a photocopy of a photocopy — every cut and every EQ move makes it a little hazier.
48 kHz · 24-bitEveryone silent, mics rolling, before the first word. That hush — radiator tick, street murmur — is how we print the noise profile.
0:00–0:10A single sharp clap gives us a sync point when a guest’s track drifts a few frames over an hour.
Sync markEven on silent, a phone near the interface can chatter into the preamp as it hunts for signal.
No GSM buzzNamed a client you shouldn’t have? Note the timestamp and it’s gone before the rough cut reaches you.
Cut listA shared folder link with one WAV per voice, plus a short note: guest names, links to mention, anything to cut. The checklist above covers the rest.
A rough cut in 3 business days, the master within 2 days of your notes. Need it sooner? Rush gets the master to you in 48 hours for $95.
Hum, hiss, a boomy kitchen, a plosive that thumps — usually, yes. A distorted, clipped track can be softened but not fully undone. We’ll say which before you pay.
Ums are cut by ear, not by rule. A pause that means something stays; a stumble that loses the thread goes. You hear the rough cut before anything is final.
You do. Masters, stems and the session files are yours to keep, and we hold a backup for a year in case a laptop takes a swim.
Single episodes are invoiced on delivery. Series runs: half at kickoff, half when episode four ships. Card, Apple Pay or bank transfer.
Yes — upload and scheduling on your podcast host is included in a Series run and available on single episodes on request.
No. Files travel by link and calls happen by phone. If you’re close, the kickoff can happen at the desk on Warren Street.
Your question isn’t here? It’s quicker said than typed.
Ask it on the phone“Monday, the raw files land and we listen with the lights low. Wednesday, a rough cut reaches you — something to hear on the ferry home. Friday, the master, the show notes and two captioned audiograms sit in one folder, named so you can find them.”
Kalliope began as one editing desk on Warren Street, a pair of closed-back headphones gone soft at the ear pads, and a single house rule: nothing ships until someone has listened to it end to end, at speaking speed. Not scrubbed through. Not spot-checked. Heard.
That rule is slower, and it’s the reason a laugh lands where it should, a guest’s long pause stays long when it means something, and the hum of a laptop fan never sneaks back in at minute forty-one.
We named the studio after the muse of the beautiful voice because the work is the same as it ever was: help people sound like the clearest version of what they meant to say.
Most of our shows never set foot in the room. Their tape travels by link, and comes back by Friday — with the radiator still ticking somewhere behind us, edited out.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. Bring one raw episode link if you have it — we’ll listen while you talk, and quote before we hang up.
By appointment
29 Warren St, Staten Island