[ STATION / AUDIOBOOK RECORDING ]
Audiobook sessions without the booth-rental day-rate.
32-bit float capture per voice, durable on flaky home-studio connections, chapter markers and ACX-spec defaults baked in. Narrator, director, and engineer in the same session -- no install on any end.
30-day money-back * full feature set
[ THE PROBLEM ]
Today's audiobook stack is held together with spit and FedEx .
Booth-day-rate math
$1.5k/day for the booth, $400/hr for the engineer, $300+ for the director's travel. The talent records 8-12 hours of usable audio a day. Your per-finished-hour cost is a rounding error away from your title's whole audio budget.
Source Connect was built in 2007
It works -- and your narrator hates it. Install on both ends, license fees on both ends, audio dropouts that make you re-record paragraphs. Your veteran narrator has a Source Connect horror story; your new narrator can't install it without IT.
Zoom + send-me-the-files
The director takes notes on Zoom. The narrator records locally in Reaper. At end of session they Dropbox you the WAVs. Three hops, two systems, one missing take that everybody swears they exported.
[ THE ANSWER ]
What CraterSync gives the audiobook production loop.
Browser-native for the narrator
Send a link. They open it in Chrome. They record. No install, no plugin, no IT ticket. The friction was always at the talent, not at you.
32-bit float WAV, every take
Studio-tier capture floor: pcm_f32le WAV at the talent's local interface rate. The downstream engineer gets real headroom -- no normalize-then-limiter cleanup pass.
Isolated stems by default
Narrator on their own track. Director on their own. Engineer on their own. Drag straight into Pro Tools or Reaper -- no de-mixing, no bleed cleanup.
Chapter markers in-session
Tag chapter boundaries live. The exported manifest carries them through to your DAW. No transcribing a notepad-of-timecodes pass on Monday morning.
Survives the home-studio connection
Local-first capture keeps recording when the narrator's WiFi blips. Chunks upload as bandwidth recovers; nothing is dropped because of a dropped uplink.
Confidentiality for celebrity contracts
Per-session AES-256 encryption, audit log on every access, retention you control. Celebrity-narrated titles where the NDA is real -- not just SaaS-default storage.
[ THE SPECS ]
Specs your post engineer can verify in Reaper .
- pcm_f32le WAV (32-bit float) capture per participant -- studio-tier audio quality on Studio + Premium
- Lossless FLAC stems (24-bit) for review-and-archive workflows
- Per-track masters -- no mixed bus, no shared compression
- Take-by-take markers + circle-take workflow
- FCP XML / AAF interchange exports for downstream conform
- Up to 8 participants per session (narrator + director + engineer + observers)
- 30-day money-back guarantee on Studio + Premium
[ NO-RISK PILOT ]
Record a real chapter before the next booth day.
Pick Studio ($299/mo), bring your narrator and your director, run an actual hour. If the WAVs aren't workable in Pro Tools or the workflow doesn't fit your edit within 30 days, we refund every cent. Keep the recordings either way.
[ NOT A FIT IF... ]
We're a bad fit if.
- --You record everything in-house in a treated booth. You have a great workflow already; we're solving a remote problem you don't have.
- --You need real-time talkback for live performance capture (theatre, live ADR). Today we're built for tracking + review, not live-monitoring sessions.
- --You're producing audiobooks at a volume where you need ACX integration on the publishing side. We export ACX-spec audio; we don't push to the ACX dashboard.
[ STATION READY ]
Record an audiobook chapter today .
Pick Studio, 30-day money-back. Bring your narrator. Bring your director. Run a chapter end-to-end. Drag the WAVs into Pro Tools. Decide after.