The 9 Best Podcast Studios in Edinburgh (2026 Guide)

Type "podcast studio Edinburgh" into a search engine and you get a jumble of music rehearsal rooms, photography lofts and event spaces with a microphone propped in the corner. Genuine podcast studios, with proper acoustic treatment, cameras and someone who knows what the gain knob does, are thinner on the ground. So we did the digging. Every studio in this list is real, operating in or around Edinburgh, and verified at the time of writing. Where a studio publishes prices, we have included them. Where it does not, we say so instead of guessing, because invented pricing helps nobody.

One thing before you start ringing round. If you want the whole production handled (studio, crew, editing, clips, distribution), a full podcast studio hire service is usually simpler than booking rooms by the hour and stitching the rest together yourself. More on that further down.

The best podcast studios in Edinburgh, compared

These are ordered roughly by how podcast-specific they are, starting with purpose-built podcast rooms and ending with music studios that happily take podcast bookings. All nine are worth a look, depending on your format and budget.

1. The Studio at Monkey Barrel Comedy (Old Town)

Monkey Barrel is one of Edinburgh's best-known comedy clubs, so it is no surprise the venue built its own podcast room. The Studio, at 9 to 12 Blair Street just off the Royal Mile, is purpose-built for up to four people and comes with four Shure SM7B microphones (the podcast industry default), a RØDECaster Pro II and two Mevo cameras recording in 1080p. That is fine for YouTube episodes and social clips, though nobody will mistake it for cinema. An audio engineer and post-production support are available on request, remote guests can join over Zoom, and the room is wheelchair accessible. Booking is by hourly blocks with off-peak rates available; exact prices are on enquiry.

2. Upload Studios (Leith)

Upload Studios, on Albert Street in Leith, was built specifically for video podcasting, which still makes it something of a rarity in Scotland. It bills itself as the UK's leading podcasting studio, which is bold, but the setup takes the format seriously: acoustically treated, sound-isolated rooms and industry-standard film and sound equipment rather than a webcam on a stand. It caters for individuals, groups and businesses, with support on hand during recording rather than leaving you alone with the faders. Pricing is quoted to your needs, so budget for a conversation before you budget for anything else.

3. The WEL Podcast Studio (Hillend)

The WEL Podcast Studio sits in the Hillend Hub on Biggar Road, on the southern edge of the city by the Pentlands. You will need transport, but the trade-off is a genuinely full service: a producer or engineer runs the session, operates the kit, records, edits and hands you the finished file. The equipment holds up too. Sennheiser e845s plus a Shure SM7B, an Allen and Heath broadcast mixer, three Sony camcorders, Roland video switching, and adjustable lighting with customisable layouts. Remote guests can be recorded as part of the session. Booking is hourly; prices are not published, so ask when you enquire.

4. EH3 Studios (West End)

EH3 Studios at 18A Rothesay Place is a 38 square metre photography, video and podcast space in the West End. It is one of the few studios on this list that publishes its podcast rates: £75 for an hourly booking, or £150 for a three-hour block. The three-hour option works out at £50 an hour, which makes it the obvious buy unless you are unusually quick. Because the space doubles as a photo and video studio, there is proper lighting on hand, useful if you care how the show looks as much as how it sounds.

5. Offbeat (Royal Mile)

Offbeat has been recording audio in the heart of the Royal Mile for over 30 years, minutes from Waverley Station, and the client list reads accordingly: BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Penguin Random House and Audible. Two studio suites run Pro Tools Ultimate with Metric Halo conversion, and remote sessions are handled over Source Connect 4, IPDTL, Zoom and the rest. The bread and butter here is audiobooks, voiceover and ADR, with podcasts alongside, including an Audible true crime podcast that reached number one in 2024. This is the pick for audio-first shows where sound quality is the product. No published rates.

A mid-list reality check. Booking a room is the easy bit. The real work is the strategy, the filming, the editing and getting episodes in front of the right people every week. Earworm's podcast studio hire and production service covers all of it, studio included, from £1,500 a month.

6. Red Facilities (Leith)

Red Facilities, at 61 Timber Bush in Leith, is an audio post-production house with more than 25 years of broadcast work behind it. Podcast services cover recording, editing, sound design and distribution-ready delivery, with Source Connect Pro and ADR facilities on site. This is the end of the market for brands that cannot afford to sound amateur, and for shows that need broadcast-grade audio rather than a quick clean-up. Rates are not published, so expect a scoping conversation rather than an online checkout.

7. Black Cave Recordings (city centre)

Black Cave Recordings sits at Greenside End, near the top of Leith Walk. It is a recording studio first (music, mixing, mastering), but voiceover and podcast work is a regular part of the diet. There is a vocal booth, an SM7B and an AKG C414 in the mic locker, Pro Tools and Logic on the machines, and remote recording over Source-Connect and SessionLinkPRO. The studio lists the BBC, Universal and Apple News among the names it has worked with. Rates are on enquiry.

8. Banana Row Studios (Canonmills)

Banana Row on Eyre Place is a music rehearsal and recording complex rather than a podcast studio, but its recording studio has published rates: £40 per hour with a two-hour minimum, or £320 for an eight-hour day. For an audio-only show that needs a treated room and decent microphones, it does the job without ceremony. It is open until 11pm most weeknights, which helps if your co-host insists on keeping a day job.

9. The Noisefloor (Leith)

The Noisefloor in Leith is the budget option, with a catch. It runs on membership: £160 a month for three flexible five-hour sessions a week, which works out at a few pounds an hour if you actually use them. The kit skews musical (Genelec monitoring, a respectable mic collection), but podcasters record there too. The catch is that, at the time of writing, the studio is at capacity and running a waiting list. One for regular, self-producing shows willing to play the long game.

Podcast studio Edinburgh checklist: what to check before you book

Studios vary far more than their booking pages suggest. Before you commit to anywhere on this list, check the following.

• Video capability. If you want a video podcast (and for a B2B show you almost certainly do), ask how many cameras, what resolution, and whether anyone operates them. Two static 1080p cameras and a multi-angle shoot with an operator are very different products at very different prices.
• Engineer included or extra. Some studios include a producer in every booking, some charge for one, some hand you the keys and wish you luck. Know which you are getting before the clock starts.
• What you leave with. Raw multitrack files, a rough mix, or a finished edit? If the answer is raw files, budget for editing on top, because that is where most of the hours go.
• Treatment, not decoration. Acoustic foam on one wall is not the same as a properly treated and isolated room. Ask what has been done, or better, listen to something recorded there.
• Remote guest support. If half your guests will dial in, check for Source Connect, a proper remote recording workflow, or at minimum a tested video call setup with separate audio capture.
• Capacity and access. Room for your hosts and guests, step-free access if you need it, and somewhere to park or a sensible bus route. Blair Street and Biggar Road are very different journeys.
• The pricing small print. Minimum booking lengths, off-peak discounts, cancellation terms and whether editing costs extra. The hourly rate is rarely the whole number.

Hourly hire or full production?

An hourly studio makes sense if you have a producer, an editor and a distribution plan already. Most B2B teams have none of those, which is why so many company podcasts record three episodes and quietly stop. The alternative is treating the studio as one part of a system: strategy first, then recording, then editing, clips and distribution, so every session becomes YouTube episodes, LinkedIn clips and audio feeds rather than a single file nobody promotes. That is how we approach video podcast production at Earworm, and it is the difference between having recordings and having an audience.

Rather hand the whole thing over?

Earworm is a B2B video podcast agency working with brands including KPMG, Experian and Cisco. We handle strategy, studio recording, editing, clips, distribution and analytics, from £1,500 a month, with new shows launched in 4 to 8 weeks. Start with our podcast studio hire service, or book a call and we will take the studio search off your plate.