20 Orkney Isle Court, Sugar Land, TX 77479 By appointment — book a call(281) 979-9198
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Podcast production · Sugar Land, Texas

We mostly take things out.

Elm Quarter Audio edits, mixes, masters, and publishes narrative and interview podcasts. You record. We leave the good parts sounding like you.

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For founders · nonprofits · indie publishers
this breath stays
01 — Services & prices
“Most of the edit is deciding what to leave alone.”

The working rule in the room. Billed per season package or per-episode batch, by invoice.

What We Do, and What It Costs

  • Single Episode

    Edit, mix, master to −16 LUFS, and published to your host. Five working days from files.

    $185
    [Ask about one]

  • Four-Episode Batch

    One pass, one invoice, delivered within nine working days. Show notes not included.

    $640
    [Start a batch]

  • Season Package, Eight Episodes

    Edit, mix, master, show notes, and publishing. One round of notes per episode.

    Most picked$1,380
    [Plan a season]

  • Narrative Season, up to Ten

    Scene-by-scene mix, music cues, sound design, and a season-level master.

    From$3,260
    [Request a quote]

  • Rescue Job

    One recording with room echo, a dropped call, or a hum. We say so before billing if it can’t be saved.

    $95
    [Send the file]

  • Transcript & Show Notes

    Clean transcript, chapters, and a written summary. Added to any package.

    Per episode$40
    [Add to a package]

Send one episode. We’ll say what we’d change.

[Email a file]
02 — In the room

The Work Happens After You Stop Talking

Founders, nonprofits, and indie publishers send us hours of tape. We send back something a listener finishes. Most of the hours are spent on things nobody will ever notice, which is the point.

Long-exposure photograph of a mixing desk with faders turned into soft trails of amber light
Session note · Tuesday, 11:40 pm

Episode six, second pass. Two breaths restored, one cough removed. The pause at 14:02 left exactly as it was.

03 — Signature detail: room tone
“Every cut gets thirty seconds of your room’s own silence under it.”

Edits sound like edits when the background drops to digital black. We lay your room’s tone under each splice so nothing falls off a cliff and nobody hears the seam.

Elm Quarter Audio — house rule no. 1

Twenty minutes on the phone settles most of it.

[Call (281) 979-9198]
04 — The signal chain

Six Stops Between Your Recording and Your Listeners

Every episode takes the same road. Scroll sideways to follow it.

01

Intake

Raw files in any format. We check sample rate, clipping, and which voice is on which track before touching anything.

02

Edit

Ums thinned, not erased. Dead air tightened. Retakes spliced on a breath, not on a word.

03

Mix

Voices matched to each other, noise floor lowered, music ducked under speech and brought back up in the gaps.

04

Master

Loudness set to −16 LUFS stereo (−19 mono), true peak under −1 dB. It plays at the same level as everything else on the phone.

05

Publish

Audio, artwork, chapters, and show notes uploaded to your host and checked in a real podcast app.

06

Hand-off

Stems and project files archived and sent to you. The invoice follows, not before.

05 — Before the first call

Questions People Ask First

Can you work with a recording that’s already rough?

Usually. A rescue job is $95 per recording. If it can’t be saved, we tell you before any invoice goes out.

How do we get you the files?

A shared folder link works. After the first call we can send an upload link instead. Multitrack, stereo, or a Zoom export are all fine.

How long does an episode take?

Five working days for a single episode from the day files arrive. Batches of four run nine. Narrative seasons are scheduled on the call.

How does billing work?

By invoice, per season package or per episode batch, due net 14. Pay by ACH, card, or check. There is no retainer.

What if I want changes?

One round of notes per episode is included. A second round is $30 per episode.

The season starts when the first file lands.

[Set up the first call]
06 — Studio & contact

Come By, or Send Files

The studio is a quiet room in Sugar Land. Sessions run by appointment, and most clients never visit. Calls and uploads work fine.

Where

The studio

20 Orkney Isle Court
Sugar Land, TX 77479
(281) 979-9198
newbusiness@elmquarteraudio.com
By appointment — book a call
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What to send

Before the first call

  • One raw recording, ten minutes or more, straight off the mic.
  • A show you’d like yours to sit next to on the shelf.
  • Target length per episode, and how many you plan to release.
  • The host you publish on, so we know where the files go.
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