Longwave
A recording studio and production company. We make shows end to end, cut and mix yours, and hire the rooms out by the day
About the studio

After eleven years of making shows for other people,

we still think the room matters more than the gear.

2015
An editor at the Longwave Studio edit suite, headphones on, hand resting on a fader panel.
Two live rooms, an edit suite and four people who have made more than fourteen hundred episodes between them. We take a show from a title to a published feed.
A condenser microphone and pop shield on a boom arm above a dark wood table.
What we do

Three ways to work with us

Most shows start with one of these and move to another. Nothing here is a contract you cannot leave.
full production
We plan the series, book the guests, record it, cut it and put it out. You turn up and talk. Four episodes a month is the usual shape.
editing & mixing
You record, we finish. Clean-up, level match, mix, master, chapters and show notes. Back with you in three working days.
studio hire
Two live rooms and an edit suite, with an engineer in the chair. Multitracks land in your inbox the same evening.
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Latest

Fresh out of the studio

The most recent episodes from the four series we have in production. All of them recorded, cut and mixed in this building.
#041
The last ferry out
The Long Way Round
The last ferry out
#012
What the tide took
Hard Water
What the tide took
#027
Cut it in half
Second Take
Cut it in half
#009
The quiet quarter
Counterweight
The quiet quarter

Client Stories

A guest laughing mid-interview at a studio microphone.

"We turned up with a title and a rough idea.

Eight weeks later we had a show that sounded like it had been running for years"

Shows

Shows we make

Four series in production, recorded and finished in-house.
The last ferry out
Saoirse Hyde on the island route that closed after ninety years.
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The last ferry out
What the tide took
Dr Owen Gallagher on the six villages the coast has already taken back.
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What the tide took
Cut it in half
Amara Osei on the edit that saved her first feature, and the one that did not.
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Cut it in half
Rates

What it costs

Published, because asking should not be the first step. Longer series are quoted per project. Rates are examples and exclude VAT.
studio hire
£320 / day
Four microphones, two cameras in Studio B, engineer included. Half day £180.
editing & mixing
£240 / episode
Up to ninety minutes of tape. Three working days, two rounds of notes.
full production
£2,400 / month
Four episodes, planning, guest booking, artwork and distribution.