From the first demo to the debut album, a good recording studio can make all the difference. Northern Ireland has a brilliant range to choose from, whether you’re after a producer-led room in the Cathedral Quarter, an affordable space to track your first EP or a residential studio in the countryside where you can live and breathe your record for a week.
Here’s our guide to the recording studios making records in Belfast and across the North right now, from long-established names to newer spaces.
Before you book, ask to hear recent work in your genre, check whether the day rate includes an engineer, and find out how mixing, revisions and file delivery are charged. Budget for mixing and mastering as well as recording. Funders including Help Musicians, PRS Foundation, Belfast City Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland can help with recording costs if you apply before your sessions, so check our Live Funding for NI Artists page for what’s open right now.
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Belfast
Start Together Studio
Oh Yeah Music Centre, Cathedral Quarter
One of Belfast’s best-known recording studios, Start Together has been based in the Oh Yeah Music Centre since 2007. Owned by producer Rocky O’Reilly, it’s where records including General Fiasco’s Unfaithfully Yours were made, and it remains a go-to for artists across every genre.
Its main studio has multiple live rooms and a spacious control room, with more than 60 microphones and a big collection of vintage and modern instruments and outboard gear. As well as production, recording, mixing and mastering, the team offers live filmed sessions, podcast and voice recording, songwriting sessions and workshops.
15–21 Gordon Street, Belfast BT1 2LG
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Half Bap Studios
Commercial Court, Cathedral Quarter
Founded in 2011 by Graham Davidson and George Sloan, Half Bap is a producer-led studio tucked away on the cobbles of Commercial Court in the Cathedral Quarter. Its acoustically treated live room, control room and vocal booth make for a relaxed, artist-friendly place to record, mix and master, and it also handles voiceover and theatre sound design.
Commercial Court, Belfast
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Earthmusic
Westlink Enterprise Centre, Distillery Street
Five minutes from the city centre, Earthmusic is run by respected producer and engineer Vic Bronzini-Fulton, whose clients over the years have included Interstate 75, Ciaran Lavery and Mannerly Hoods. It offers recording, mixing and mastering alongside rehearsal space, and it’s a long-standing, affordable option for local bands, open seven days a week for block bookings and late sessions.
Units 39 & 40, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ
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AMPS Studio and Training Centre
Conway Mill, West Belfast
Based in the historic Conway Mill since 2011, AMPS is a recording studio and sound training centre rolled into one. Its team offers recording, mixing, mastering and dry hire, along with rehearsal space and PA hire, and its accredited OCN courses in music technology make it a great fit if you want to learn while you record.
Conway Mill, 5–7 Conway Street, Belfast BT13 2DE
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Attic Studios
Blackstaff Mill, Springfield Road
On the fourth floor of the Blackstaff Mill, Attic Studios has six rooms that can be used for rehearsal or live recording. It caters for everyone from first-time bands to seasoned professionals, and it’s a handy option if you want to rehearse and record in the same place.
Unit 18, Blackstaff Mill, 81 Springfield Road, Belfast BT12 7AE
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Stoney Road Studios
Dundonald
First established in 1983, Stoney Road was brought back to life in 2020 by artist and producer Brian Houston and his wife Pauline, who own and run it. It describes itself as Belfast’s only residential recording studio, with rooms for live band tracking and drums, a Bechstein upright piano, vintage guitars and drum kits, and an engineer included with sessions. It also records voiceovers and podcasts.
40 Stoney Road, Dundonald, Belfast BT16 1UP
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Rest of Northern Ireland
Analogue Catalogue
Rathfriland, Co. Down
Set on five acres of Co. Down countryside about 40 minutes from Belfast, Analogue Catalogue is a residential analogue and digital recording complex founded by producer, engineer and tape specialist Julie McLarnon. With three live rooms, two control rooms, a synth room and a Bechstein grand piano, it’s hosted artists including Lankum, The Vaselines, Pillow Queens, King Creosote and Duke Special.
Unusually, it publishes its rates. Dry hire of Studio B starts at £280 a day, exclusive hire of the whole complex with self-catering accommodation for six is £400 a day, and engineers start from £120 a day. There’s also a writers’ retreat cottage, from £450 a week.
Drumdreenagh Road, Rathfriland, Newry
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Blast Furnace
Derry~Londonderry
Open since 1995 and a ten-minute walk from Derry city centre, Blast Furnace is the North West’s long-running recording and mixing studio. Run by studio manager and in-house producer Rory Donaghy, it offers recording, mixing, mastering and production, dedicated drum tracking with Mark Donnelly of Eatsleepdrums, and audio post-production for film.
Unit 11, Rathmor Business Park, Bligh’s Lane, Derry BT48 0LZ
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Manor Park Studio
Moneyglass, Co. Antrim
Run by owner and producer Neal Calderwood, Manor Park first opened in 1998 and moved into purpose-built premises in 2005. It’s a residential studio with seven live rooms, including a main live room of 5.5 by 8 metres, offering recording, mixing and mastering in a peaceful rural setting.
Moneyglass, Co. Antrim
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Cloud 9 Studios (Belfast Underground)
Banbridge, Co. Down
Formed in 2015 and originally based in Belfast city centre, Cloud 9 Studios, part of Belfast Underground, now operates from Banbridge. It offers recording, production, mixing and mastering, and says it has worked on more than 3,000 label-released productions.
Huntly Road, Banbridge
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Last updated October 2026.