Podcast production that’s on brand

Nothing compares with the intimacy of audio when it comes to connecting with an audience. So, if you’re looking to amplify your brand message and engage with hard-to-reach target markets, podcasts offer a creative and fun solution.

As the go-to place for creating broadcast quality branded podcasts, PRL Studio can help tell your story in a way that resonates. We’ll guide you through the whole process, from coming up with an original concept, recording and pre- and post-production through to distribution and marketing.

We record high-quality podcasts here at our professional-standard West London studios, or anywhere else you choose. If you’re interviewing people in other locations, we’ll capture their words in crystal-clear audio, so no one will guess they weren’t in our studio. We also film the podcast process, giving you the option to broaden your audience by using vodcasts, vlogs and videos across social media, websites and advertising campaigns.

FULL SCOPE
Production Track

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  • PRE-PRODUCTION
  • ✓  Concept, objectives and format development
  • ✓  Production plan
  • ✓  Visual and written identity (name, slogan, artwork, description)
  • ✓  Music and effects plan
  • ✓  Marketing and distribution strategy
  • ✓  Host training
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  • RECORDING
  • ✓  Rehearsal session
  • ✓  Recording of episodes
  • ✓  Recording of opener, interludes, musicbeds and effects
  • ✓  Video and photography options (multicamera view)
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  • POST-PRODUCTION
  • ✓  Rough cut
  • ✓  Sound treatment
  • ✓  Applying music and effects
  • ✓  Preparing for distribution
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  • MARKETING, HOSTING & DISTRIBUTION
  • ✓  Hosting and distribution to major platforms and apps
  • ✓  Pre-launch teaser campaigns
  • ✓  Listener growth campaigns
  • ✓  Special episode campaigns

RECORD & EDIT
Production Track

20
  • PRE-PRODUCTION
  • ✓  Production plan
  • ✓  Music and effects plan
  •  
  • RECORDING
  • ✓  Rehearsal session
  • ✓  Recording of episodes
  • ✓  Recording of opener, interludes, musicbeds and effects
  • ✓  Video and photography options (multicamera view)
  •  
  • POST-PRODUCTION
  • ✓  Rough cut
  • ✓  Sound treatment
  • ✓  Applying music and effects
  • ✓  Preparing for distribution
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BESPOKE
Production Track

20
  • Every show is different and every production has its own requirements. With the wealth of options to choose from, we can configure the best production package for you. Get in touch and let's talk about creating your show the way that works for you.
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How we help you create engaging and effective podcasts

Our West London studio is the perfect place to record your branded podcast. Sound-insulated and acoustically treated, it will give your voice a velvety quality that’s smooth and natural.

We use broadcast-quality recording equipment to guarantee pro-level audio, so even if you’re interviewing people from outside locations, they’ll sound as clear as if they’re physically in the studio.

Our podcast production team is made up of highly skilled sound engineers, editors, producers, videographers, graphic designers and marketers. This means you can draw on their expertise to create engaging and effective podcasts that showcase your brand and give you a platform to connect with specific audiences.

You’ll be assigned your own producer, who’ll guide you through the whole process. They’ll be there every step of the way – from original concept through to distribution – and their job is to make sure everything runs smoothly and to deadline.

With all our media production experience, we’ll make sure it’s seamless. Read on to find out more…

Pre-Production

Podcast's Concept, Objectives and Format

We understand how important it is to connect with your target audience, so we’ll help you pinpoint exactly where your podcast fits in with your content strategy. Then, we’ll work with you to develop the best format for your show – whether that’s a weekly interview-style podcast, expert panel discussion, immersive documentary, or something else entirely.

Production Plan

We’ll put together an efficient schedule for recording sessions and the rest of the production process and where possible, will record a block of episodes rather than individual sessions. We’ll also handle any necessary location planning, if some elements of your show take place outside the studio. We have the tech to accommodate remote guest contributors and make sure they enjoy being part of your production.

Visual and Written Identity

We know your show needs to stand out from the crowd. To make sure it’s talked about and shared, we’ll help you develop the creative vision including the title, an instantly recognisable logo, slogan and description that really resonates with your target audience.

Music and Effects Plan

Music and sound effects are vital when it comes to creating a great listening experience for your audience. When expertly woven-in, they set the scene, enhance the story and give your show a distinct soundscape that listeners learn to recognise. We can also create interludes if you want to include commercial breaks.

Marketing and Distribution Strategy

Right from the start, we’ll encourage you to think about how you’ll distribute and promote your podcast. To prepare for this we’ll help you decide what assets we should be creating, so they’re ready to use for marketing when the time comes.

Host Training

Finding yourself in front of a microphone for the first time can be unnerving. We help hosts with techniques to improve delivery, boost confidence and feel at ease in an unfamiliar recording environment. We’re also happy to advise on interview techniques, delivery and authenticity.

Recording

Rehearsal Session

Whether it’s leading the conversation, pacing the narrative, or building suspense in a story, recording a podcast can take a bit of practice. We make sure you feel at home in our studio or pop-up recording space, by holding a rehearsal session. This gives you a chance to try out different approaches and techniques, with us on hand to give professional and honest feedback.

Recording of Episodes

After rehearsal, you’ll feel confident and ready to start recording. Our producer and sound engineer will take care of the production-side, leaving you free to focus on creating great content for your show. We know recording can be thirsty work, so there are plenty of opportunities to take a break with a cup of our excellent coffee and tea, or a cold drink.

Some podcasts, such as an investigative series, are best recorded on location. In that case, we provide mobile recording equipment and help plan the session. If guests need to be interviewed remotely, we link them to our studio using the latest podcasting technology. All your guest will need is a web-browser for us to be able to achieve superb recording quality. We can also use a studio monitor to set up a visual link between the host and the guest, putting both at ease and creating a stronger connection.

Recording of Opener, Interludes, Musicbeds and Effects

As part of our production plan for your podcast, we’ll put together several audio assets, sourced from professional sound and music libraries. We can also create bespoke sounds and effects in our studio. These add character to your show and make it a better listening experience for your audience. Listeners learn to recognise distinctive sounds, so by making sure they’re in line with your values, we can use them to boost your brand.

Video and Photography Options

Adding video opens up a whole new set of possibilities for your podcast. During production, we create photo and video assets which you can use in a variety of ways. This ranges from posting your show on video-on-demand platforms such as YouTube, IGTV or Facebook Watch, to including them in your marketing or advertising campaign. We also offer multi-camera video recording options, with a range of backgrounds including green screen, so you can create a bespoke backdrop.

Post-Production

Rough Cut

Once our sound engineers and producer have created a rough cut of the recorded episodes, you’ll be able to check whether the story or conversation sounds how you imagined. Working with your producer, you’ll have a chance to discuss amendments and improvements before the material moves to the next stage of post-production.

Editing, Mixing and Mastering

You want your listeners to enjoy your show and come back for more, so we’ll work on the sound quality to create the best possible listening experience. As part of this, we’ll fix any audio problems such as taking out ‘ums’ and ‘ers’, normalising voice volume and fine-tuning the pace of the show by adjusting silences and transitions.

Applying Music and Effects

At this point, we’ll add the audio elements we prepared earlier – typically these include music, risers, atmospheres, jingles and other effects which give your podcast personality and really bring it to life.

Preparing for Distribution

With everything fine-tuned and ready for prime time, we prepare your episodes’ files in the formats optimal for publishing. They include sound files, episodes’ artwork as well as descriptions and show notes.

Marketing, Hosting and Distribution

Hosting and Distribution

Your podcast needs a reliable hosting service so that it can be fed seamlessly onto all the podcast listening platforms. We can set this up to make sure each of your show’s episodes is ready to be published around the world.

Pre-Launch Teaser Campaigns

It’s a good idea to start building anticipation among your potential audience in the run-up to your show’s launch. Our marketing team can give your podcast a head start by creating a teaser campaign tailored for social media channels and advertising networks that are relevant to your brand.

Listener Growth Campaigns

Using our industry expertise, we can design and run listener growth campaigns to help your podcast gain traction faster. It’s a great way to reach your ideal audience, increase exposure and build awareness of your show among those likely to be interested in it.

Special Episode Campaigns

Your podcast is likely to include one or more episodes that really stand out. This could be an interview with a special guest, or a key show in the series. We can create a campaign to make sure these flagship programmes don’t go unnoticed, and all your hard work pays off.

Get In Touch

If you’re thinking about creating your own podcast, we definitely can help. Get in touch using the form below or simply email us at [email protected]

Hire the Studio

If you’re all set to start recording and need access to a professional studio with a sound engineer (see it on the map), contact us and we’ll get back to you with available options.

Professional project management

With thousands of dubbing hours created, your dubbing will be in the care of our friendly, experienced producers. From pre-production, to recording, to mastering and delivery, they will align the project with your production and release plans to ensure the dubbing process is neatly in sync with them. In project management, we put emphasis on timely communication so by partnering with us you will gain an extended team looking after your film’s dubbing and/or sound design.

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Highest quality sound engineering

Through our studios located in London and Warsaw, not only do you gain access to a diverse pool of multilingual voice talent. At your disposal are also excellent facilities tuned to deliver the best sound in dubbing today. We use industry-standard audio equipment and software to create audio for your films:

Our studios have delivered thousands of hours of dubbing for films, animations and TV series. This is a testament to our creative teams’ experience but also to the expertise of our audio engineers. It’s important to be working with professionals who know how to capture your production’s essence and create a seamless, well-mastered language or M&E track that provides immersive viewing experience for your audience.

London Studio

Unit 4, Shaftesbury Centre
85 Barlby Rd
London
W10 5AZ
United Kingdom

Warsaw Studio

ul. Dominikańska 9 bud. 5
02-738 Warsaw
Poland

Original music and sound design

Beyond character development and dubbing, some of our projects include original scoring and SFX, creating unique film reality in one consistent package. We offer a complete sound design solution for any film, series or animation. This means that we handle the entire process from concept to predub mix to a perfectly mastered, immersive M&E track for your production.

Sound design

Our sound designers have years of experience in transforming and blending audio to create the perfect soundtrack for your production. All creative projects benefit from stunning sound and we’re here to help you get the best out of your production. We can spot everyday sounds that the listener expects to hear or blend in tones and other musical elements to create something beautiful and truly unique.

Sound effects

We can be bring your film to life, providing delicate sound effects that enhance a gentle drama moment, or creating a full-blown battle sequence with canon-fire to hi-tech laser weaponry. When correctly used, sound effects like the closing of a wooden door, or the biggest explosion can transform the emotional impact of a film. With our huge proprietary sound FX library and our creative team we can produce an M&E track to enhance your production and ensure its dramatic and emotional impact.

Music composition

We have built a network of dozens of great composers, experienced in working with creative development teams, producing the perfect track for your project. If you’re not ready for an original soundtrack, we can also carry out a music search for you, and propose ready compositions from our extensive library. And, as another alternative, we can also help you choose the right track from other online music libraries.

Dubbing and original voicing

If you’re looking to create the baseline language for your new film release, our production teams experienced in original voicing will be working on your project. Under the guidance of the specialist dubbing director, we will cast strategically, contribute to your character development and establish the character standards that other language editions may benchmark against in the future.

As you plan your local language adaptations, we will create alternative language versions for your film. Our facilities make it possible for us to create these versions consecutively or in parallel, depending on your release schedule and preference.

Pre-syncing for animations

When we work on original voicing for animations, we are often asked to create a pre-syncing track to support the animator’s work. We have an efficient process for this and can include it as an affordable option that brings immense value to the animating process.

Multilingual voice talent

The characters for your new film release will be cast from our extensive selection of voices. We work with a wide range of voice artists and in casting we put forward actors with specific experience in film dubbing.

As a studio with international presence, we support multilingual projects with native voice talent in:

  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Polish
  • Italian
  • and others

 

If your film requires specific accents like Queen’s English, American English, cockney or Schwäbisch, our production teams narrow their focus to select the suitable voice talent for you. This also goes for foreign accent combinations, e.g. English with Eastern European tones or an American speaking French, which in certain cases improves the quality of your characters’ adaptation.

Voice continuity

We understand that audiences get to know the characters and expect them to be consistent throughout the series. We can offer voice actor continuity if your projects require it so the viewers recognise the characters they got used to in previous episodes or parts of the series.

Promotional support

Many of the voice actors we work with are also open to supporting your promotional activities. Going beyond the standard teasers and trailers, our production teams can arrange for the actors’ social media appearances, participation in podcasts etc.

Professional project management

With hundreds of gaming projects delivered, your dubbing will be in the care of our friendly, experienced producers. From pre-production, to recording, to mastering and delivery, they will align the project with your development and release plans to ensure the soundtrack production is neatly in sync with them. In project management, we put emphasis on timely communication so by partnering with us you will gain an extended team looking after your game’s dubbing and/or localisation.

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Highest quality sound engineering

Through our studios located in London and Warsaw, not only do you gain access to a diverse pool of multilingual voice talent. At your disposal are also excellent facilities tuned to deliver the best sound in gaming today. We use industry-standard audio equipment and software to create audio for your video games:

Games voiced in our studios have been winning awards for best dubbing. This is testament to our creative teams but also to the expertise of our audio engineers. It’s important to be working with professionals who know how to capture your game’s essence and create a seamless, well-mastered soundtrack that provides immersive gaming experience for your players.

London Studio

Unit 4, Shaftesbury Centre
85 Barlby Rd
London
W10 5AZ
United Kingdom

Warsaw Studio

ul. Dominikańska 9 bud. 5
02-738 Warsaw
Poland

Original music and sound design

Beyond character development and dubbing, some of our projects include original scoring and SFX, creating unique game reality in one consistent package. In partnership with Endemic Game Audio, we offer a complete sound design solution for any video game project. This means that we manage the entire sound design and music creation process – so you can receive a perfectly mastered, immersive soundtrack for your game.

Sound design

Our sound designers have years of experience in transforming and blending audio to create the perfect soundtrack for your production. All creative projects benefit from stunning sound and we’re here to help you get the best out of your production. We can spot everyday sounds that the listener expects to hear or blend in tones and other musical elements to create something beautiful and truly unique.

Sound effects

We can be bring your game to life, providing delicate sound effects that enhance a gentle drama moment, or creating a full-blown battle sequence with canon-fire to hi-tech laser weaponry. When correctly used, sound effects like the closing of a wooden door, or the biggest explosion can transform the emotional impact of a game. With our huge proprietary sound FX library and our creative team we can produce a sound FX track to enhance your project and ensure its dramatic and emotional impact.

Music composition

We have built a network of dozens of great composers, experienced in working with creative development teams, producing the perfect track for your project. If you’re not ready for an original soundtrack, we can also carry out a music search for you, and propose ready compositions from our extensive library. And, as another alternative, we can also help you choose the right track from other online music libraries.

Game implementation

When the sound effects are ready, we can handle their full implementation into your game engine. Our technical expertise covers industry standard middleware technologies, and beyond. From haptic design services and dolby audio processing, to Wwise, fMod, Unity, Unreal, we understand that content is only as good as the technology which enables it.

Dubbing and original voicing

If you’re looking to create the baseline language for your new game release, our production teams experienced in original voicing will be working on your project. Under the guidance of the specialist gaming voice director, we will cast strategically, contribute to your character development and establish the character standards that other language editions may benchmark against in the future.

As you plan your local language launches, our dubbing teams will create alternative language versions for your game. Our facilities make it possible for us to create these versions consecutively or in parallel, depending on your release schedule and preference.

Localisation

If you would like the entire localisation process to be handled for you, we will help you keep all its elements under one umbrella. Along with an international localisation partner, we will manage the preparations for your launch in the new regions, from translations and cultural amendments to assets adjustments and, of course, dubbing.

Multilingual voice talent

The characters for your new game release will be cast from our extensive selection of voices. We work with a wide range of voice artists and for bulk of the roles we put forward actors with specific experience in video games. That said, we also look for opportunities to introduce fresh voices if they enhance the quality of your cast.

As a studio with international presence, we support multilingual projects with native voice talent in:

  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Polish
  • Italian
  • and others

If your game requires specific accents like Queen’s English, American English, cockney or Schwäbisch, our production teams narrow their focus to select the suitable voice talent for you. This also goes for foreign accent combinations, e.g. English with Eastern European tones or an American speaking French, which add authenticity to certain storylines.

Voice continuity

We understand that gamers get to know the characters and expect them to be consistent throughout the series. We can offer voice actor continuity if your projects require it so the players recognise the characters they got used to in previous editions.

Promotional support

Many of the voice actors we work with are also open to supporting your promotional activities. Going beyond the standard teasers and trailers, our production teams can arrange for the actors’ social media appearances, participation in podcasts etc.