ScopeMedia StudiosBook

Hire · SE5 9HW, South London · from £80 · open 7 days

One take, filmed and recorded.

A live session is a promise to the audience that the band played it once and that is what you are hearing. It needs a room quiet enough to record in and good enough to look at. Studio B is built as a room within a room with a cove that takes colour; the music studio tracks the engineered version in the same building; and the DJ room films a set with the lighting already rigged.

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Studio B's white cyclorama washed in deep purple light, with two large para softboxes, an LED panel, a reflector and a standing mirror arranged across the cove, and coloured backdrop rolls stowed above

The rooms for it

Studio B dressed with a pink sofa on the white cyclorama under a fresnel light
Studio BLive sets are one of the things the room is used for: a room within a room, sound treated and blackout capable, with a colour-washable cyclorama behind the band and an edit and playback area to check the take. The performance comes back as recorded, in the colour you chose.From £120Check Studio B availability
The music studio lit by violet LED strips, with the desk, monitors and vocal booth.
Music StudioThe tracked version: a treated vocal booth with a large-diaphragm condenser, nearfield monitors and a panelled, foam-treated room. Dry from £80 for a half day, or with an engineer on the desk at £140 a half day.From £80Check Music Studio availability
The DJ room square-on: two AlphaTheta CDJ-3000X players either side of a Pioneer DJ DJM-A9 with a white Reloop RP-7000 turntable at each end, Yamaha HS8 monitors on the wings of a hand-built concrete booth, beneath a red and white abstract canvas
DJ RoomA hand-built concrete booth with CDJ-3000X players and a DJM-A9, and professional film lighting rigged and included — the only room at Scope where it is. £75 an hour with a four-hour minimum, booked separately and outside a buyout.From £300Check DJ Room availability

Straight answers

What does live session video studio london cost at Scope?
Studio B starts at £120. Music Studio starts at £80. DJ Room starts at £300. Set-up and pack-down are inside your booked time.
Which room is best for filming a live music session?
Studio B. It is built as a room within a room and sound treated, it blacks out, and its cyclorama washes to colour, so the performance is both recorded clean and lit the way you want. Studio A is not sound treated, which is why it is not on this page.
Can we record the live session audio properly as well as film it?
In Studio B, yes — the room is sound treated, and you bring the capture chain. For a tracked or engineered version, the music studio has a treated vocal booth, a large-diaphragm condenser and nearfield monitors, dry from £80 for a half day or with an engineer at £140 a half day.
Can a DJ set be filmed as a live session?
Yes, in the DJ room: a hand-built concrete booth, two CDJ-3000X players and a DJM-A9, with professional film lighting rigged and included. It is £75 an hour with a four-hour minimum, booked separately from the studios and not part of a whole-building buyout. Cameras are not included.
Do you supply backline, a PA or cameras for a live session?
No in-house kit list is published for those, so plan to bring them, and tell us what is coming when you enquire so we can confirm what is on site. Lights are charged separately in Studio B and the music studio — please enquire about our lights.
Can a live session be streamed as it happens?
There is high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the building, but we have not published measured connection speeds, so email us the platform and bitrate and we will confirm in writing whether the connection supports it before you book. You bring the encoder.

More in the full FAQ.

How it works

  1. 01Tell us the line-upHow many players, whether it is acoustic or amplified, and whether the audio is captured live in the room or tracked separately. That decides between Studio B, the music studio and both.
  2. 02Book the blockStudio B is £120 for two hours, £220 for a half day and £420 for a full day. The music studio is £80 for a half day dry or £140 a half day with an engineer. The DJ room is £75 an hour with a four-hour minimum. Load-in, soundcheck and pack-down sit inside the booked time.
  3. 03Quote the lightsIn Studio B and the music studio, lights are charged separately from the room rate — please enquire about our lights and we will quote for the session. In the DJ room the film lighting is rigged and included.
  4. 04Bring the captureWe have not published an in-house kit list for cameras, backline or a live recording chain, so tell us what you are bringing — interface, multitrack, cameras — and we will confirm what is on site in writing.

Worth reading first

How to Shoot a Music Video in a StudioHow to shoot a music video in a studio: pick the room by the treatment, light the artist out of black, run playback properly and book the hours the looks need.How to Film a DJ Set in a StudioHow to film a DJ set in a studio: cameras placed around a booth that does not move, audio taken clean off the mixer, and light that still reads an hour in.Sound for Video in a Studio: Sync, Wild Tracks and ADRSound for video in a studio: sync sound in a treated room, planning dialogue around an untreated one, wild tracks, room tone, ADR and voiceover in the booth.Recording Studio Dry Hire vs an EngineerDry hire is £80 for a half day. With an engineer it is £140. The real question is whether the person on the desk is worth the difference.Studio Lighting Basics: The Room Is Part of the RigStudio lighting basics start with the room: a white cove lifts shadows, a blacked-out room is free negative fill. Then hard and soft light, falloff and colour.Multi-camera Interview Set-ups in a StudioMulti-camera interview set-ups in a studio: one, two or three cameras, matching lenses, the 180-degree line, lighting two angles, lav and boom, timecode.Planning a Single or Album Release Content Day in a StudioPlan a single or album release content day in a studio: press stills, cover art, a performance clip, vertical teasers and lyric cards, sequenced across rooms.

In the building with every booking

  • Kitchen
  • Dressing and prep room
  • Client lounge
  • High-speed Wi-Fi
  • Parking

In every room but one, lights are charged separately from the room rate, so please enquire about our lights and we will quote for what your shoot needs. The exception is the DJ room, where the professional film lighting is rigged in the room and included in the rate.

Anything not listed — ceiling heights, cove dimensions, power, capacities — is on request rather than guessed at. Ask us and you will get an exact answer.

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