Your estimate · Post-production
3 finished hours × €140
€420
- On delivery
- €420
- Post-production
- about 3 business days
Audiobook production
Your audiobook passes the checkon the first upload.
Editing, proof-listening and mastering to the technical specs of ACX, Audible and Spotify. From €140 per finished hour.
Yousef Hammoudah
Die sieben Säulen des Seins
| Spec | Finished |
|---|---|
| Level (RMS)between −23 dB and −18 dB | −21.9 dBmet |
| Peak levelat most −3 dB | −3.3 dBmet |
| Noise floorat most −60 dBFS | −67 dBFSmet |
| Silence at start and endhalf a second to one second | 0.8 s / 0.7 smet |
| Result | Passed |
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Die sieben Säulen des Seins0:00 / 0:23
Your book
per finished hour
How long is your book, and what should happen to it? Price and schedule are below.
Your estimate · Post-production + proof-listening
3 finished hours × €190
€570
- When you place the order
- €285
- On delivery
- €285
- Post-production
- about 3 business days
Your estimate · Full service
This package starts at 5 finished hours.
Your estimate · Post-production
5 finished hours × €140
€700
- When you place the order
- €350
- On delivery
- €350
- Post-production
- about 5 business days
Your estimate · Post-production + proof-listening
5 finished hours × €190
€950
- When you place the order
- €475
- On delivery
- €475
- Post-production
- about 5 business days
Your estimate · Full service
5 finished hours × €240
€1,200
- When you place the order
- €600
- On delivery
- €600
- Post-production
- about 5 business days
Your estimate · Post-production
10 finished hours × €140
€1,400
- When you place the order
- €700
- On delivery
- €700
- Post-production
- about 10 business days
Your estimate · Post-production + proof-listening
10 finished hours × €190
€1,900
- When you place the order
- €950
- On delivery
- €950
- Post-production
- about 10 business days
Your estimate · Full service
10 finished hours × €240
€2,400
- When you place the order
- €1,200
- On delivery
- €1,200
- Post-production
- about 10 business days
Your estimate · Post-production
20 finished hours × €140
€2,800
- When you place the order
- €1,400
- On delivery
- €1,400
- Post-production
- about 20 business days
Your estimate · Post-production + proof-listening
20 finished hours × €190
€3,800
- When you place the order
- €1,900
- On delivery
- €1,900
- Post-production
- about 20 business days
Your estimate · Full service
20 finished hours × €240
€4,800
- When you place the order
- €2,400
- On delivery
- €2,400
- Post-production
- about 20 business days
What you get
Post-production
- Editing of the raw material: slips, double takes, breaths as agreed, mouth noises
- Noise removal
- Level and tone matched across the whole book
- Mastering to the target values of your platform
- Files named chapter by chapter
- Opening and closing credits
- Retail sample
From 3 finished hours · about one finished hour per business day · 1 round of revisions
Post-production + proof-listening
- Full proof-listening against your manuscript
- Error list with timestamps for re-recording
- One pickup round edited in
From 3 finished hours · 2 rounds of revisions
Full service
- Coordination of the pickup session
- Two pickup rounds
- Files in the formats of several platforms (ACX/Audible, Spotify Audiobooks, BookBeat, Storytel)
- Metadata and file names to platform specs
- Technical check of the first 15 minutes before production starts
From 5 finished hours · 2 rounds of revisions
You don’t have to guess the length yourself – send us the manuscript or the raw files, and we work it out.
Surcharges: Raw material more than twice the final length (many retakes, no rough cut) +20% · several narrators or audio drama parts +30% · Express +50%
From €500 order value: 50% when you place the order, the rest on delivery, payment within 14 days. Publishers can agree on partial invoices for every five finished hours instead.
No VAT is shown, under § 19 UStG (German small business rule) – the prices shown are final prices.
The small print: the check, the finished hour, schedule, on request, not included
The check
Audible and ACX check every file technically before it goes on sale. Files are not rejected for the reading, but for the measurements – and then you lose two to three weeks.
In detail, ACX requires: an average level (RMS) between −23 dB and −18 dB, peaks of at most −3 dB, a noise floor of at most −60 dBFS, half a second to one second of silence at the start and end of each file, one file per chapter, plus opening and closing credits and a retail sample. On top of that come format rules that differ between platforms.
These are not matters of taste. They are numbers. We deliver so that they are right.
Per finished hour
We bill by the length of the finished audiobook – not by the length of your raw material, and not by our working time. A novel of about 300 standard pages makes around ten finished hours.
Example: 10 finished hours in the package “Post-production + proof-listening” cost €1,900. This price is in the quote before you book, and it does not change if a passage takes longer.
Schedule
For a book with ten finished hours, plan roughly like this: two weeks of post-production and proof-listening, then your pickup recording, then a short week for editing in and final mastering. Four to five weeks from handing over the material to the final files is realistic. We meet fixed deadlines if they are agreed in advance.
On request
- Narrator casting and booking
- €350
- Sample or trailer for marketing
- €150
First consultation with a five-minute test edit: €90, fully credited when you place the order.
Not included
- Narrators and their fees
- Studio hire and recording
- Copy-editing
- ISBN, distribution and cover
- Rescuing recordings made in a room with unusable acoustics
Common questions
What quality does my recording need?
WAV, at least 44.1 kHz and 24 bit, a quiet room without audible echo, and the same distance to the microphone throughout. The most common killer is not the microphone, it is the room. Send us five minutes, and we will tell you up front whether it works.
What is a pickup round?
After proof-listening, you get a list with timestamps of the spots that need to be read again. You record them, and we edit them in – invisibly, if microphone and room stayed the same.
Do you also do the upload?
No, you upload and publish yourself. You tell us when the book has to be done – by then the files are with you, named to your platform’s specs.
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Let’s talk it through.
A 15-minute video call, free and without obligation. You tell us what you have in mind, we tell you honestly what your recording allows – then both sides know whether we are a match. Need more time? The same link also books a 30-minute call, also free.