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ABOUT US

At Auryn Audio, we love words, live and breathe stories and books, and thrive while forging unforgettable audio content for listeners. Creating an audiobook is truly an interdisciplinary process, one which requires equal facility with language, obscure pronunciations, audio processing techniques, editing finesse, and project management workflow.

Our goal is to simplify this (possibly daunting) audiobook production process as much as possible for clients; to allow you to release a sonically clear, tonally pleasing, textually accurate, perfectly edited audiobook with minimal stress and trouble. Our attention to detail and work ethic is second-to-none.

With over twelve years full-time experience as an editor, mastering engineer, and audiobook post manager, our founder and Executive Producer Alexander Hahn has worked on thousands of audiobook projects for Harper, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, Gildan, Deyan, Audio Sorceress, Scribe Media, and Curated Audio, done directing & post for independent ACX authors and narrators, and has been lucky enough to work on titles by acclaimed authors like Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Joyce Carol Oates, Aldous Huxley, Walter Isaacson and others. He was also privileged to manage the post-production of 10 Audie Nominees, 3 Audie Winners and countless Earphones winners between 2014 - 2026.

Auryn has a network of many talented editors, audio engineers and project managers with a collective experience of decades working in the audiobook industry, which allows for flexibility with large projects or tight deadlines. We pride ourselves on pristine audio production and meticulous mastering, and always strive for a 100% QC catch rate. We believe that every audiobook deserves the same loving attention to detail, and want every project to sound like a big budget studio production when it's finished, even if self-published and home recorded.

With traditional book consumption in slow decline and the popularity of audiobooks growing year over year as a market segment, expert post-production is needed now more than ever to meet the demands of a growing industry. Even with the seismic changes being wrought by AI, there will always be a need for human expertise and judgment.

Whether you're an author, narrator, publisher or studio looking for assistance with post-production, we have the tools and knowledge to help. If you need a quick-turnaround raw edit, a difficult audio restoration or remaster, or a detailed QC,we're here to help you turn great books into transformative audio!

AUDIO
SERVICES

PROCESSING / MASTERING

Processing / mastering is one of the most crucial and overlooked steps to producing any audiobook or podcast – this involves reducing background noise, hum, rumble and mouth clicks, smoothing the frequency response of your audio with EQ, de-essers and adaptive filtering, and compressing the dynamic range to make sure your voice is consistent, always audible, and within the Loudness / RMS spec limits set by ACX, Spotify or a publisher. We use a custom chain of high-end plugins (tuned for each project!) to create a smooth, easy-on-the-ears vocal tone that sounds good on all playback systems.
We utilize Fabfilter, Izotope and Zynaptiq suites, Pro Tools, Reaper, a treated room, reference grade DAC, 2 pairs of headphones, and a set of Focal Solo6 Be’s to check compatibility and identify and lessen any resonances or problem frequencies. On our 'samples' page you can hear a few samples of our mastered audio for reference!

EDITING

Editing involves carefully going through the audio, formatting tops and tails, adjusting pacing when needed to conform to the script, removing bad takes, excessive breaths, mouth clicks, plosives and any other distracting artifacts from the signal. The goal is pristine audio. We are capable of punch as well as roll (raw) edits, duet, multicast, or conversation style dialogue edits.

QC / PROOFING / QA

Proofing, QA or QC (quality control) involves a dedicated listening pass through the audio alongside the script and pronunciation guide, noting down misreads, mispronunciations, noises, and pacing issues and creating a pickup list for the narrator to record replacements. Our QCers mostly have advanced degrees in humanities fields, are book devotees and connoisseurs of rare words and strange pronunciations, and will bring an expert's ear to bear on your audiobook! No stone will be left unturned.

FULL PRODUCTION

This would entail a start-to-finish production from raw audio to finished WAV / FLAC / MP3 masters, ready to upload to Audible and other retailers. We will master, edit, then have someone QC your files, double check them with Pozotron, provide a pickup sheet with audio clips for you, then cut the pickups in and deliver final WAV's and MP3’s with metadata, plus a further round of fixes if you do a second round of QC.

MISC. AUDIO POST SERVICES

We also offer:
- Mixing and editing for podcasts, radio productions & film sound
- Audio restoration for poorly recorded location sound & dialogue
- Interview cleanup / reverb reduction / forensic processing with RX or Zynaptiq
- Music mixing and mastering