Notes from a working studio
Audio technique, production workflow and how Lisbon actually works — written between sessions in Alfama, with the gear that is in the building.
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- Audio, production, Lisbon
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The Shure SM7B needs more gain than you think
It is the most photographed microphone on the internet and the most badly gain-staged. Here is how we run it in the Alfama podcast room.
11 February 2026
A video podcast is two productions at once
The failure mode is always the same: the episode looks fine and sounds like a conference call, or the other way round. Plan both, or drop one.
4 March 2026
How to record a DJ set that is worth sending
Promoters listen for thirty seconds. A phone recording of a room tells them nothing except that you own a phone.
15 April 2026
Where Lisbon actually makes things
The city is small enough to cross in half an hour and stubborn enough that each district still does its own thing. Here is who does what.
20 May 2026What a podcast studio actually costs in Lisbon
Most studio websites make you send an email to learn a number. Here are ours, in full, with the tax and the caveats.
19 August 2026A half day in Alfama, from the studio door
Guests arrive early or finish with an hour to spare. This is what we tell them, in walking order.
26 August 2026
The podcast session checklist we actually use
Nothing here is clever. All of it is something that has gone wrong in a real session and been fixed by writing it down.
2 September 2026
Notes from hosting side events during Web Summit week
During Web Summit week the city has more events than rooms. That single imbalance explains everything else about planning one.
4 September 2026How to start a podcast in Lisbon
Most podcasts die before episode three, and almost never because of the microphone. They die because the format was too heavy to repeat.
7 September 2026What equipment do you need to record a podcast?
The internet will sell you a podcast studio one cart item at a time. The real list is four things long.
7 September 2026How much does it cost to record a podcast in Lisbon?
The question behind the question is always the same: rent a room, or buy the gear. Here is the arithmetic.
7 September 2026
Where to record a podcast in Lisbon
Every studio in Lisbon will tell you it is the right one. Here are the criteria to check instead, applied to ourselves as strictly as to anyone.
7 September 2026
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Kreators produces. bridgr connects. Kreators is the production studio and event space of bridgr, the creative residence and community in Alfama, Lisbon.