We Rated Every Podcast Studio in Manchester (Including Our Own, Honestly)

So Where Do We Actually Sit?

Here's the honest version. On a straight hourly-rate comparison, Galleon (£50/hr) and Colony (£60/hr) both look cheaper than our £69.99/hr — but neither of those rates includes video. Galleon's video jumps to £250/hr and Colony's to £140/hr once you add their camera package; our £69.99/hr already includes a 2-camera 4K video setup as standard, not an add-on. Compare like-for-like on video and we're not the expensive option here — we undercut Outset's audio-only rate while already including video. We're still not the most heavily equipped — 80 HERTZ's four-camera, triple-redundant broadcast setup is a different league of production value, and it should be, at that price. And we don't have the review history Outset and 80 HERTZ have built up — we've got two five-star reviews so far, not 77 or 135+. We're a new studio. Pretending otherwise would be exactly the kind of fake trust signal we don't put in our own marketing, so we're not about to start here.

What we do have, and what nobody else on this list combines in one place: transparent pricing published on the site rather than "enquire for a quote," 2-camera 4K video included in the base rate rather than as a paid extra, free on-site parking, genuinely seven-day opening at 10am–8pm, and raw files included as standard. If what you want is a straightforward, honestly-priced room with named equipment and no surprises at checkout, that's the gap we're built to fill — and we'd rather earn the reviews the honest way than claim ones we don't have yet.