Drakenscroll

Because when you see that dragon, you know it's strong and solid.

The hearth is cold. Choose how you would like to be received — and the fire, the sound, and the story will rise to meet you.

Either door turns the sound on. Change it whenever you like.

The Long Memory

The house keeps a long memory. Leave an address and you hear of new voices, new instruments and new work before the world does. No course, no call, no salesman.

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Free to every author. Forever.

The Sound Ledger

What an audiobook truly costs is measured in hours at the microphone and hours at the desk. Lay the manuscript down and the ledger will count them: runtime to the second, days in the booth, files to deliver, and the exact specification retail will demand of you.

Lay it down

Runtime rate

Finished runtime

2h 01m 10s

90,000 words at 750 words to the finished minute, credits included.

Booth days

1

Raw hours

3.2

Desk hours

6.1

What must be delivered

Files in all34
Body files32
Credit files2
Per chapter3m 45s
Delivered payload170 MB
Masters to archive0.90 GB

The specification retail demands

Loudness

−23 to −18 LUFS integrated

Peak ceiling

−3 dBTP, never clipped

Noise floor

quieter than −60 dBFS

Master format

44.1 kHz · 24-bit WAV, mono

Delivery format

192 kbps CBR mp3, mono

Room tone

0.5 s head · 1 to 5 s tail per file

File ceiling

120 minutes per file

Required files

opening credits, body, closing credits

Estimates on standard retail audio requirements. Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or seen by this house.

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