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Podcast Production

We record, edit, mix and master podcasts in our studio in Zagreb — as audio, or with three cameras — and hand back a finished episode, not raw footage. One price covers the room, the crew and the whole post-production chain; there is no separate editing bill waiting for you afterwards. Audio shows start at €220 an episode, video at €850.

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What’s included

Most studios price the room by the hour. We price the episode. The session — the only part an hourly studio charges for — is the first item on this list, and it ends with raw material: three camera angles and a separate audio track for every voice. Everything below it is the work that turns that material into a finished episode, done by the people who recorded it, inside the same price.

a.Audio recording+

Four Shure SM7B microphones through vintage MCI JH500 preamps from a 1970s console, in a room that is acoustically treated rather than merely quiet. Recorded at 88.2 kHz / 24-bit, every voice on its own track.

b.Video recording+

Three angles: host, guest, and a wide that holds them both — enough coverage for a real conversation on screen, not a static two-shot. Lighting is set so the people stand apart from the background. Shot in 4K, which is why a vertical clip cut from it keeps its quality on any platform.

c.Audio post-production+

Dialogue cleaned and processed, levels made consistent between speakers and across the whole series, then a mix mastered to the loudness standard each platform expects — so your episode never sits quieter than the one your listener played before it. The work happens on the same monitoring and converters we use for producing records.

d.Video editing & grading+

Cutting between three angles directs attention — to a question, an answer, a reaction — and the rhythm of those cuts is what keeps an hour watchable. Then the grade, so episode nine looks like episode one.

e.Delivery & series consistency+

Final files in the formats the platforms expect, delivered ready to upload. From there the job is to hold what the show has — the same levels, the same grade, the same frame, episode after episode. You publish on schedule; keeping it identical is our side of the deal.

Pricing

What you pay for is a delivered master — the finished episode, mixed, mastered and ready for you to release.

Audio Podcast Episode€220–350per episode · final price, no VAT

A complete audio-only episode: recorded in our studio, then edited, mixed and mastered, ready to publish.

Acoustically treated studio, up to three voices
Shure SM7B into vintage MCI JH500 preamps, at 88.2 kHz / 24-bit
Dialogue cleaned, mixed and mastered to platform loudness

The upper end covers a fourth voice at the table.

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Video Podcast Episode€850–1,000per episode · final price, no VAT

The complete audio episode, plus the picture: three cameras, lighting, edit and grade.

Three cameras — host, guest, wide
Full lighting, set so faces stand apart from the room
The same microphones, mix and master as the audio episode
Edit and grade, finished in 4K
A set of up to ten stills from the shoot, included

€850 is the finished episode — recorded, edited, graded and mastered. The upper end is where the add-ons live: a fourth voice at the table and social clips. Three clips, the usual order, take an episode to €925.

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Video Podcast On LocationPer projectquoted for your show · final price, no VAT

When the show has to happen somewhere else — an office, a museum, an event, a different city.

Our microphones, cameras and lighting, at your location
Several episodes in a single day
The same post-production as in the studio

The price depends on the place, the distance and the number of episodes — we quote once we know all three.

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A season is priced as a season, not as a stack of single episodes. Discounts are available for booking a whole season, they scale with its size, and paying up front improves them further — tell us the shape of yours and we will quote it.

The fine print

DeliveryFirst cut of an audio episode within three working days of the recording; of a video episode, within eight. Revision rounds come after, at the pace your notes arrive.

Episode lengthA finished episode is the recording itself, minus the start and the end, so it is billed by the minutes actually delivered. The price covers up to 60 minutes; beyond that, €1.50 per delivered minute on an audio show and €3.50 on a video show — billed on the episode it belongs to, never as a surprise at the end. Condensing a long recording into a shorter episode is a separate job, agreed on its own.

RevisionsTwo rounds per episode. A round is one collected set of notes, sent in one pass and worked through together. Technical faults on our side — a fault in the audio or the picture, sync, export, an error in our edit — we fix free of charge, however many times it takes. Changes of content after the second round are €50 per started hour.

PaymentA 20% deposit confirms the booking. The balance is due 30 days from the date of the recording. If the first cut is late past the deadline through our fault, the due date moves by the same number of days.

OwnershipEverything made for your show is yours, worldwide and in perpetuity — the sonic branding, the set, all of it.

Not sure which format your show needs?Write to us and we will tell you honestly what it needs — and what it does not.Share your idea with us

Optional

Most of this is a one-time cost, made once before the first recording — the show’s sound, its logo, a trailer, a pilot. Clips and stills are the per-episode extras; set design, distribution and remote guests we agree per show.

Sonic branding€320Your audio logo, written and produced here, and the intro and outro built from it. Two rounds of revisions are included; a third is €50 per started hour.

Show logo designfrom €350Through designers we have worked with for years. The final price depends on the scope of the work, so it starts here. Two rounds of revisions are included; a third is €50 per started hour.

Logo animationfrom €250The show’s logo, animated — for openers, titles and the end of every clip. The final price depends on the scope of the work, so it starts here. Two rounds of revisions are included; a third is €50 per started hour.

Trailer€200A 60–90 second trailer, recorded and produced in the studio on two cameras — the piece that announces the show before the first episode is out. We make it alongside the production of your show or a pilot with us.

Pilot episode€500A video episode recorded in the full setup — three cameras, the same room and the same crew — with post-production deliberately kept light: a rough multicam cut, minimal grading, basic audio clean-up, no clips and no stills, one round of revisions, delivered as a review version. A paid trial run: first recordings carry first-time mistakes, and this is where they happen instead of in public. It is not a full episode and is not sold as one.

Fourth voice€90A fourth person at the table on a video episode — four is the maximum the table takes. On an audio show the upper end of the range already covers it.

Social media clips€25 eachClips are an add-on from the first one — no clip is inside the episode price. Vertical and subtitled: you mark the moments that matter — you know your audience — and we cut them. Most shows take three per episode. A clip runs up to 60 seconds of finished video and includes one round of revisions; material that needs more is cut as two clips.

Video stillsincludedA set of up to ten photographs from the shoot, for web and social — included in the video podcast and in the PR interview. An audio episode does not include them; a standalone or additional set is €25.

Set designat costThe backdrop, the shelves, the objects in frame — we agree them with you and charge what they cost. No other show recorded in this room will use them.

Distributionby arrangementPublishing the episodes is normally your side of the work. If you want us to handle it — feed setup, metadata, submission to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the rest — we scope and price it per show, once we know which platforms you want and who runs the feed.

Remote guestsby arrangementIf your guest cannot be in Zagreb, tell us early. A remote guest changes the setup on both ends, so we plan the connection, test it before the session and agree the cost up front.

Hosting & interview coaching€50/hMost people who record with us are excellent at their subject and have never had to run a conversation for an audience — a separate skill, and a learnable one. The session is yours: what the show is for and who it is for; how an episode opens, peaks and ends on time; questions that get a story, not just an answer; staying out of an answer’s way; guests who tighten up in front of cameras; the microphone and camera habits that save time in the edit. Sessions are run by members of our team, matched to the topic you bring.

Questions we get asked

Asked and answered.

We only want audio. Is that a lesser version?

No — it is a different show. Audio-only is the older and, for many formats, the better format: people listen while driving, walking, working. It gets the same room, the same microphones, the same mastering. What it does not get is three cameras, lighting and a picture edit, and that is the entire price difference.

How many people can sit at the table?

Two is the format at its best. Three is no trouble at all. Four is the maximum the table takes — on an audio show, that fourth voice is what the upper end of the price range covers. On a video show a fourth voice is €90 on top of the episode.

How long does a session take?

The recording itself tends to run about as long as the finished episode — the conversation happens close to real time. The visit is a little longer at both ends: host and guests usually come early to meet and settle into the room, and often stay a while after the last question. None of it is measured to the minute; leave some air around the session and the day will feel like a conversation, not an appointment.

How far ahead do we book — and what if we cancel?

Book at least three working days ahead. A session can be cancelled at no cost up to 24 hours before it starts; cancelled closer than that, we keep the deposit. If we are the ones who cancel, the deposit comes back in full within three working days and you get the first free slot with priority.

Do you record in the evenings or at weekends?

Evenings, yes. Weekends, as a rule, no — the exception is a series recording several episodes in the same day. When we can make a weekend work, it carries a 50% surcharge, depending on slot availability.

What files do we receive?

An audio episode is delivered as a mastered WAV and an MP3, ready for the podcast streaming services. A video episode is delivered as the video file for the platforms — and alongside it, an audio-only version of the same episode, for shows that also publish on the audio podcast services. Some do; the file is there if you want it.

Do we get the raw material?

On request, yes. The Ownership line in the fine print means what it says — the raw recordings were made for your show, so they are yours like everything else. One practical note: three camera angles in 4K and a separate track for every voice add up to very large files, so bring an external hard drive and we will copy everything onto it.

Why curtains behind us and not a clean wall?

A clean wall can photograph well, but acoustically it is a hard, reflective surface, and that is heard immediately as a thinner, emptier, less controlled sound. The curtain absorbs those reflections. It is not a compromise for the look — it is the reason the room sounds like it does.

Why microphones on the table instead of clip-on mics?

Because on a podcast the microphone is not something to hide: the Shure SM7B on a boom is the standard for the format, and by now its visual shorthand. It also earns its place — each voice held close and constant, fed through the vintage MCI preamps.

Can we visit the studio before we book?

Of course — by arrangement. Write to us and we will find a time. Half the questions on this list answer themselves the moment you stand in the room.

Who exactly are “we”?

A small team of producers, engineers, composers and musicians who spend the rest of the week making records and commercial sound in this room. Your episodes go through the same hands and the same chain — work that went into campaigns which took an Effie Awards Europe Bronze (2023) and a first place at Nicholas Hall CHC in Rome. Advertising awards, not podcast awards; the room and the people are the same.

Selected work