Four booths · Two studios · Open until midnight

Coworking With Booths That Are Actually Soundproof

Most so-called podcast booths are a phone box with foam glued inside, and every recording made in one has the building audible underneath it. Ours are built as rooms within rooms: isolated floors, decoupled walls, acoustic doors and independent ventilation, measured at better than fifty decibels of isolation. Around them sits an ordinary, well-run coworking floor — desks, meeting rooms, fast wired internet, good coffee — so a producer can edit at a desk in the morning and record at three without moving buildings.

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Large diaphragm condenser microphone in a shock mount

Panelled study room with a desk and bookshelves

About us

Built by People Who Kept Rerecording Episodes

The space was built by two podcast producers and an acoustician who between them had lost an unreasonable number of recordings to a passing tram, an upstairs neighbour's washing machine and the building's own ventilation. Every mitigation they had tried in ordinary rooms — blankets, foam, recording at night — solved the symptom and not the problem, because sound isolation is a matter of mass, air gaps and decoupling rather than of soft material stuck to a wall.

The booths were therefore designed properly and then measured. Each is a box built inside the existing structure on isolation mounts, with double independent walls, a heavy acoustic door with a full seal, glazed panels of laminated glass at different thicknesses, and a silenced ventilation path that changes the air without carrying noise. The measured isolation is published for each room along with its reverberation time, and anyone is welcome to bring a meter and check.

The coworking around them is deliberately conventional and well maintained: sit-stand desks, wired gigabit as well as wi-fi, meeting rooms that book without a fight, printing, lockers, showers, a kitchen with real coffee and enough plants that the room does not feel like a data centre. Members who record use the booths at a member rate; members who never record simply get a very quiet floor to work on, which turns out to be the reason most of them joined.

Advantages

Why Recordings Come Out Clean

Six things that decide whether an episode needs an hour of noise repair or none at all.

Grand reading room with long desks and lamps

Isolation That Is Measured and Published

Each booth is a decoupled room built inside the building on isolation mounts, with independent double walls, laminated glazing in two thicknesses, an acoustic door with a compression seal, and a silenced ventilation path. Measured isolation and reverberation figures are printed on the door of each room, and we will lend a sound level meter to anyone who wants to verify them. The practical result is that a tram passing ten metres away, the lift, the kitchen and a loud meeting next door are all inaudible on the recording.

Rooms That Sound Right, Not Just Quiet

A silent room with bare walls sounds like a bathroom. Ours are treated with broadband absorption at the reflection points, bass trapping in the corners and a small amount of diffusion, tuned to a reverberation time that flatters speech without sounding dead. Two rooms are slightly livelier for panel discussions and video, two are drier for solo voice work and audiobooks. Every room has been listened to as well as measured, which is the part most fit-outs skip.

Equipment That Does Not Need Explaining

Each booth has broadcast dynamic microphones on proper boom arms, an interface that records every participant to a separate track, closed-back headphones with individual volume controls, and a one-page card showing exactly which buttons to press. Levels are pre-set and limited so that a guest laughing loudly does not destroy a take. Anyone who wants to bring their own equipment can plug into a patch panel instead, and remote guests can be brought in cleanly on a separate track.

Booking Without Friction

Booths are booked by the hour online up to the last minute, and the door opens with the code sent at booking. There is no minimum session, no requirement to hire an engineer, and no charge for the fifteen minutes at either end that setting up actually takes. Regular producers can hold a repeating slot. Cancellations more than four hours ahead cost nothing, because a recording schedule collapses often and penalising that simply drives people back to recording in a bedroom.

Somewhere to Work Between Sessions

A recording day is mostly not recording: it is preparing questions, greeting a guest, listening back, rough cutting and writing show notes. The coworking floor around the booths handles all of it, with sit-stand desks, gigabit wired connections, two editing desks with calibrated monitoring and large screens, a quiet zone where nobody takes calls, lockers for equipment and a kitchen that is not a vending machine. Guests waiting to record are given somewhere comfortable rather than a corridor chair.

Open When Recording Happens

The building opens at seven in the morning and closes at midnight, seven days a week, because guests are available in the evening and international interviews happen across time zones. Members have access at any hour with their own code. Staff are present until nine and reachable by phone afterwards, and the booths are cleaned and reset between every booking rather than at the end of the day, so the second session of an evening starts as well as the first.

Modern open plan office interior with workstations

Services

What You Can Book

Booths, video studios, desks, editing suites, production help and corporate use.

Podcast Booths by the Hour

Four treated booths seating two, three or four people, each with broadcast microphones, boom arms, a multitrack interface, headphones with individual controls and a table that does not transmit knocks. Recordings are delivered as separate tracks to a drive or straight to your cloud folder before you leave. Booked by the hour with no minimum and no engineer required, at a member rate or a walk-in rate, seven days a week from seven until midnight.

Video Podcast Studios

Two larger rooms set up for filmed conversations: three cameras on locked-off framings, controllable lighting with a soft key and background separation, a choice of three backdrops, and a switcher that records both the multi-camera mix and the individual angles. Audio comes from the same broadcast chain as the booths rather than from the cameras. An operator can be booked with the room, or the whole setup can be run by one person from a single panel.

Desks and Memberships

Hot desks, fixed desks and small private offices on monthly membership, all with sit-stand desks, wired gigabit, lockers, meeting room credits, printing, showers and twenty-four hour access. Memberships include discounted booth hours and priority booking. Day passes are available without membership, and a quiet zone is kept where no calls or conversations are permitted, which is where about a third of the members choose to sit.

Editing Suites and Voice Work

Two editing rooms with calibrated monitoring, acoustic treatment, large screens and the common editing software licensed and ready, bookable by the hour or the day. The driest booth doubles as a voice-over room for audiobooks, dubbing and commercial reads, with a talkback line to the editing suite next door so a director can sit outside. Long audiobook bookings are priced by the day and include a proofing listen-back session.

Production Support

Optional help for people who would rather concentrate on the conversation: an engineer in the room, editing and mixing to broadcast loudness standards, noise repair on recordings made elsewhere, music and artwork sourcing, transcription, chaptering and delivery to the main podcast platforms. Everything is quoted per episode rather than per hour so a budget can be set in advance, and clients keep every raw file whatever else they use.

Corporate and Group Bookings

Companies use the rooms for internal podcasts, recruitment and training video, all-hands recordings and remote conference contributions where a clean feed matters. Half-day and full-day packages include the studio, an operator, catering and a private meeting room for preparation. Universities and schools book teaching sessions on recording and editing, and we run an introductory evening course four times a year that is open to anybody.

Contacts

Bookings, Tours and Memberships

Book a booth online at any hour, or come and see the rooms first — we will let you record a five-minute test and take the file away to listen to on your own headphones before deciding.

Memberships, video studio hire, production work and corporate bookings are arranged through the same office.

Studio18 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France

Phone+33 1 43 47 62 19

Emailquiettablestudios@icloud.com

OpeningDaily 07:00–24:00; members have 24-hour access