Clearer sound. Better feeling. Less guesswork.
Podcast Editing, Audio Cleanup, Tape Transfer, Restoration, and Final Polish for Stories, Archives, and Records
What i do
I help recordings become clearer, more listenable, and more emotionally effective — whether it’s a podcast, an old tape, or a record that needs the final push.
Podcast Editing & Cleanup
Clean, natural, emotionally respectful edits for narrative shows, interviews, and sensitive stories.
Tape Transfer & Restoration
Cassette transfer, archival cleanup, noise reduction, and mastering for tapes that deserve another life.
Mastering & Final Polish
Release-ready masters for music that needs depth, translation, confidence, and care.
HEAR THE DIFFERENCE
Careful audio work is easiest to understand when you hear it. These examples show how cleanup and restoration can improve clarity while preserving the natural feel of the source.
Podcast Audio Cleanup
Background noise, harshness, and distracting room sound can pull attention away from the voice. The goal is not to make speech sound artificial — it’s to make it easier to understand and more comfortable to hear.
Listen for: reduced background noise, smoother high-end harshness, and a voice that remains natural.
Audio Restoration
This example began as a compromised tape-sourced transfer. The goal was to reduce noise, improve balance, and bring the music forward without erasing the character of the original recording.
Listen for: less noise, improved clarity, better tonal balance, and more musical presence.
For audio that needs a careful ear
Some projects need more than a standard edit, transfer, or master. They need someone who can listen for what the recording is trying to be — especially when the source is noisy, fragile, unconventional, sensitive material, or hard to explain.
Hard-to-Explain Projects
For recordings that feel unfinished, unclear, strange, fragile, or difficult to describe — but still have something important inside them.
Imperfect Sources
Noisy tapes, rough transfers, archival recordings, distorted files, uneven voices, and material that needs care instead of brute force.
Unusual Music
Mastering and final polish for experimental, self-produced, ambient, noisy, and non-traditional records.
FEEL THE DIFFERENCE
The right audio help should make a project feel less overwhelming. Whether the source is strange, noisy, fragile, or emotionally important, my role is to listen closely, understand the goal, and help the work become what it is trying to be.
Creative Audio Solutions
“Scott understood what I was trying to do right away and helped me turn an unusual sound installation idea into something that actually worked in the space, which ultimately helped my vision materialize”
— Reeve Schumacher
visual + sound artist
co-founder LHOSTE ART CONTEMPORAIN
Making Audio Accessible
“Seeking Scott’s expertise to prepare, edit, and isolate voices from difficult recordings for patients with ALS and other neurological conditions has been transformative. His technical skill has salvaged audio that would otherwise have been unusable, giving patients back a synthesized voice that sounds like them and restoring something central to their identity.”
— Patricia Liu
Speech-Language Pathologist
Giving Music New Life
“Scott helped bring a 40-year-old recording back into the world with care, respect, and a deep understanding of the artist’s original intent. The result preserved the character of the music while giving it new life for a new audience.”
— Bryce
Founder, The Sagegazers
Archival Record Label
How It Works
Getting help with audio shouldn’t feel complicated. Send a note, share what you’re working on, and I’ll help you figure out the right next step.
1. Tell me what you’re working on
Send a note with your project, goals, concerns, and any audio examples.
2. I listen and recommend a path
Editing, cleanup, restoration, mastering, final polish, or a combination — depending on what the project actually needs.
3. I take it from there
Once we agree on the path, I handle the work with care, keep you informed along the way, and help carry the project across the finish line.
Not sure what your project needs? That’s okay. You don’t need the right technical language to start the conversation.
Sensitive Work, Handled With Care
Since 2024, I’ve edited, cleaned, scored, mixed, and supported nearly 100 episodes of Invisible Choir, a long-running true crime podcast ranked #4 by Entertainment Weekly on its list of the best true crime podcasts of all time.
That work matters to me because sensitive audio is never just technical. Every edit affects tone, pacing, clarity, and trust. My role is to help the story come through clearly while treating the people inside it with care.
“Scott has an incredible ability to take our raw scripts and production cues and shape them into something far more immersive, emotional, and cinematic. He not only cleans up the audio — he builds a sonic atmosphere and transforms our episodes into the engaging and moving experiences our listeners have come to expect.”
Michael Ojibway
Founder & Creative Director
Invisible Choir
START A CONVERSATION
You don’t need to know exactly what your project needs before reaching out. If it feels stuck, noisy, unfinished, or hard to explain, that’s okay. Send a note with whatever context you have. I’ll listen, give you an honest sense of what I can help with, and suggest a clear path forward.