The studio behind the feed — Torrance, CA
Same
Ears.
Zephyr Lane Audio is a one-desk podcast studio on Torrance Blvd. We don't hand your show around a queue — the same editor mixes it from the first stem to the published feed, so a whole season stays on one target and one tone.
How this started
Built around one problem: shows that drift.
Zephyr Lane Audio started because founders kept sending in feeds where every episode sounded like a different podcast — one loud and brittle, the next buried and boomy, guest mics all over the place. That drift almost always comes from a rotating cast of editors, each with their own chain and their own guess at a loudness target.
So we built the opposite. One desk, one editor per show, one documented target: −16 LUFS stereo, true-peak under −1 dBTP, repair passed through iZotope RX before a single EQ move. Your intro bed, your host's voice, your ad-read levels — all logged and held steady across the whole season.
It's a small operation on purpose. We'd rather run a handful of shows that sound identical week to week than push volume through a ticket queue and lose the thread of what your feed is supposed to sound like.
Try before a season
Hand us one episode and hear the target on your own voices.
Book a single episodeHow we run the desk
Four rules the mix never breaks.
Not a manifesto — the actual working constraints that keep your feed consistent from episode 1 to episode 40.
Repair, then shape
De-noise, de-click, de-ess and mouth-click removal happen first, on the raw stems. EQ and compression only touch clean audio — never a noise floor baked into the tone.
One documented target
Every episode lands at −16 LUFS stereo (−19 mono) with true-peak held under −1 dBTP. Your numbers are written down, so week 12 matches week 1 whoever the guest is.
Your master, your sign-off
Nothing gets invoiced until you've heard the delivered master and approved it. Revisions are quoted in from the start, not bolted on after.
The same set of ears
You get one editor who learns your hosts, your bed, and your quirks — not a queue that reassigns your show to whoever's free that afternoon.
On the desk
What your stems actually run through.
The signal chain isn't a secret. Here's the room your audio passes through on the way to a finished episode.
- Repair
- iZotope RXSpectral de-noise, de-click, de-hum, dialogue isolation and mouth-click removal — the first pass on every raw track.
- Edit
- Pro Tools + ReaperComp editing across takes, per-speaker gating, cross-talk cleanup and room-tone matching for multi-mic rooms.
- Metering
- Loudness to specIntegrated LUFS and true-peak metered against your target on every episode — checked, not eyeballed.
- Monitoring
- Nearfields & a treated roomMixed on calibrated nearfield monitors and reference headphones in an acoustically treated space, not a laptop in a café.
- Delivery
- MP3 + WAV mastersTimestamped show notes, full transcript, chapter markers and audiogram clips — staged straight to your host on request.
- Records
- Riverside & SquadCastWe work from separated multitrack exports so a laptop mic and a broadcast mic can sit in the same room, evenly.
Who you're actually emailing
A working editor, not an inbox.
When you send files to Zephyr Lane, they land with the person who mixes them. No account manager relaying notes to a room you never see. You describe your target once, and the same editor holds it for the run of the show.
That means feedback loops are short — a note on episode 3 changes how episode 4 is cut, without a hand-off getting lost. It also means we stay small on purpose, taking on a limited number of standing shows so nobody's feed becomes overflow work.
Turnaround
Three business days from clean stems on single episodes; a standing 48-hour slot on the season retainer.
Scope
Quoted up front against your track count and runtime — you approve the number before anything gets edited.
Commitment
No retainers required to start. Try one episode, then move to a weekly cadence only if the sound holds up.
Slots book by the week
Ready to hand your feed to one steady pair of ears?
Send the raw multitrack and a reference episode. We'll quote it against your track count and get you on the calendar.
Start an episode Call (310) 619-1947