The supply reel on our 1970s half-track deck, still in use.

edit the words.the tape follows.

Tapehouse is a podcast studio on Bristol's harbourside. We built our own editor: delete a word from the transcript and the audio is cut, spliced and smoothed, the way we used to do it with a razor blade and a reel.

Open the editorBook a room
01 / 05press play
Low TideEp. 41 · The night ferry
EditFillersMixChaptersPublish
47:12.447:12.4
9 fillers found in this scene · 6.4 s

the building

  1. 01
    Control room

    A 24-channel desk, two treated booths behind glass, and an engineer who'll tell you when your mic is too close. £45 an hour, editing included.

  2. 02
    Tape room

    Two working reel-to-reel decks. Shows record a "tape version" for fun, and we transfer old radio archives for museums.

  3. 03
    Archive desk

    Send us a box of cassettes: interviews, family recordings, demo tapes. We digitise, clean and transcribe them, £12 a side.

Room A · the desk
Tape room · 9.5 cm a second, like 1974
Archive desk · cassette transfers

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