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Aeolian Audio sells podcast production by the season because a season is a knowable thing: so many episodes, so many minutes, one launch date. Below is the rate card, the work behind it, and the single-episode menu for shows that only need a piece of it.
Each column carries everything in the column before it. Read down to find the line where your show needs more than the one beside it.
Swipe sideways to compare all three seasons.
| Pilot RunSix episodes | Full SeasonTwelve episodes · Most picked | Season + CutdownsTwelve episodes + clips | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat fee | $1,385≈ $231 an episode | $2,640$220 an episode | $3,670≈ $306 an episode |
| Finished length | Up to 45 min each | Up to 45 min each | Up to 45 min each |
| Remote recording direction | Every session | Every session | Every session |
| Clean, mix, master to −16 LUFS | Every episode | Every episode | Every episode |
| Show notes | Every episode | Every episode | Every episode |
| Feed + five directories | Set up once | Set up once | Set up once |
| Guest prep sheet | Not included | Sent to every guest | Sent to every guest |
| Music beds cut to your tempo | Not included | Intro + outro | Intro + outro |
| Chapters + 60-second trailer | Not included | Included | Included |
| Captioned audio clips | Not included | Not included | Two per episode (24) |
| Full transcripts | Not included | Not included | Every episode |
| Brand-approval round | Not included | Not included | One per episode |
| Revision rounds | Two per episode | Two per episode | Two per episode |
| Book | Book it | Start it | Ask us |
Card or bank transfer. Half to begin, half when the final episode is delivered. Masters, session files and show notes are yours the moment each episode lands in your shared folder.
Most of the fee is attention: a person listening to every minute, more than once, with headphones that tell the truth. Here is what that attention is spent on.
We join the session as a producer, not a spectator. Ten minutes before the guest speaks we walk them through mic distance, a quiet corner and headphones, then watch the levels live and flag the siren, the fridge hum and the drift toward the laptop speaker while there is still time to fix it.
A local backup track runs on the guest’s side, so a dropped connection costs a sentence and not an episode.
Hum, hiss, room tone, plosives, mouth clicks and the dip when someone turns away from the microphone, lifted out by ear, phrase by phrase. We do not run one preset across the file and call it done; a preset hears noise, and it cannot hear the breath you want to keep.
Stumbles and false starts go. The pause before a difficult answer stays.
Dialogue is leveled voice to voice, so the guest on a laptop sits beside the host on a ribbon microphone without anyone reaching for the volume. Music beds are set under the speech at a level that carries emotion and never competes with it.
The final file is mastered to −16 LUFS, the level listeners on Apple Podcasts and Spotify expect, with headroom left for the codec.
Written by whoever edited the episode, so they describe what is actually said. Each set carries a two-paragraph summary, timestamps for the turns in the conversation, every link a guest mentions, and three pull-quotes worth putting on a card.
Your feed is built under your own accounts, with artwork specifications checked and categories chosen on purpose, then submitted to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and Pocket Casts. We stay until episode one is live in each, and we hand you the logins.
For B2B shows whose real audience is on LinkedIn. We cut captioned audio clips around the strongest minute of an episode and deliver a clean, speaker-labeled transcript, so the conversation can be quoted, searched and shared long after release day.
A Full Season runs on a steady weekly beat. Here is the shape of it, from the first call to the last file in your folder.
Week
Twenty minutes to map the season, the guests and the sound you want. Half the fee begins the work.
Week
Prep sheets go out, the first sessions are directed live, and the feed and artwork are checked.
Week
Forty-eight hours after the raw files arrive. Two revision rounds are yours to spend.
Weeks 03 – 11
Record, cut, review, publish. The rhythm holds so your listeners always know what day it is.
Week
The last episode, trailer and chapters arrive; the balance falls due; every master and session file is yours.
The Pilot Run keeps the same beat over six episodes, so it ends sooner and settles at week 06.
B2B brands
You need a polished feed, clips for LinkedIn and a comms lead who can approve an episode before it ships. Season + Cutdowns, at $3,670, was built for you.
Independent hosts
You want the show to sound like you on your best day, without learning to edit. Start with the Pilot Run at $1,385, or go straight to the Full Season at $2,640.
Hourly billing rewards slow editing. A season has a fixed scope, so we quote it once and carry the risk of a difficult guest or a noisy room ourselves.
If you have never published, the Pilot Run lets you test the rhythm for six episodes. If you already know you will hold a weekly schedule for a quarter, the Full Season costs $220 an episode against about $231. Choose Cutdowns when the show has to feed social channels.
No. We walk every guest through a ten-minute setup, from mic position to a quiet corner, and monitor the recording live. A wired USB microphone is the one thing we ask for.
Each episode includes two revision rounds. Send timestamps and notes, and we’ll rework the cut. A third round is $45 per episode.
Yes. Anything on the single-episode menu can be added to a running season at the listed price, and we will confirm the new total in writing before the work starts.
You do. Masters, session files and show notes land in your shared folder when each episode is delivered, and the feed is set up under your own accounts.
One flat fee per season, from $1,385: remote recording direction, noise cleanup, mix and master, show notes and distribution setup, delivered to a show that sounds like you on your best day. Hours are by appointment, so book a call and we’ll hold the time.
