Inside the studio

Six rooms. One creative engine.

Echo & Ember runs two working floors — Manchester and Islamabad — kitted for podcasts, video, photography, content and live activations. Book the room, or bring the brief and let us run the whole shoot.

The studio

Vision and execution, under one roof.

Echo & Ember started from a simple frustration: creative agencies that are all vision and no execution, and dev shops that are all execution and no vision. We wanted neither half — a studio that could sit in a strategy conversation about brand positioning in the morning and ship production code in the afternoon. That's only possible because we're not starting from zero. We're built on Slipy Technologies' foundation — a team with years of hands-on experience across commercial strategy, retail systems and enterprise software — which means the "digital" half of what we promise isn't outsourced. It's already in the building.

We hold every idea to one standard: would this actually stop someone mid-scroll, with a thousand other things competing for their attention? Most work doesn't survive that question. What's left is what we ship.

Manchester · Islamabad — two floors, one team.

Studio services

Every room, built for a specific kind of story.

Book a single room and a crew, or hand over the whole brief and we run production end-to-end.

Podcast StudioPodcast

Podcast Studio

Soundproofed room built for interviews people finish listening to.

  • 4-mic Rodecaster Pro II setup
  • Shure SM7B broadcast mics
  • Multi-cam 4K capture (Sony ZV-E1 ×3)
  • Acoustic treatment + isolation booth
  • Same-day rough cuts, weekly episode delivery
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Video Production FloorVideo

Video Production Floor

Cyc wall, cinema-grade cameras and a lighting rig for real productions.

  • 3-wall infinity cyc (white + green)
  • RED Komodo · Sony FX6 · Sony FX3
  • Aputure 600D / 300X full lighting kit
  • DJI Ronin gimbals + slider dolly
  • Client viewing lounge + wardrobe
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Photography BayPhoto

Photography Bay

Portrait, product and lifestyle photography under one roof.

  • 9-ft seamless backdrops (11 colours)
  • Profoto B10X strobes + modifiers
  • Product tabletop with sweep + macro
  • Tethered capture via Capture One
  • Same-day retouch turnaround
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Post-Production SuitePost

Post-Production Suite

Colour-graded edit bays where projects actually get finished.

  • Calibrated 4K reference monitors
  • DaVinci Resolve Studio · Premiere Pro
  • Pro Tools + treated audio room
  • Motion graphics via After Effects + C4D
  • Frame.io review-and-approve pipeline
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Content Creator RoomContent

Content Creator Room

Vertical-first setups for Reels, TikTok, Shorts — shoot ten a day.

  • Ring + softbox setups for talking-head
  • Rotating background wall (5 looks)
  • Teleprompter + iPhone 15 Pro rigs
  • Instant edit station · CapCut Pro
  • Batch-record + calendar publish workflow
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Event Activation SpaceEvents

Event Activation Space

Flexible floor for launches, brand activations and press evenings.

  • Up to 120 standing / 60 seated capacity
  • Full AV: line-array PA, wireless mics, lighting rig
  • In-house content team captures the night
  • Branded staging, signage + wayfinding
  • 72-hour post-event content package
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How to work with the studio

Brief. Book. Shoot.

01

Brief

Tell us what you're making — shoot, launch, podcast, campaign. One call, one page of notes, zero jargon. If it's not the right fit, we'll say so.

02

Book

Lock the room and the crew. Half-day, full-day or multi-day. Kit, wardrobe, catering and content-capture plan agreed up front.

03

Shoot & ship

Shoot on-site with our team, get same-day rough cuts, and receive final edits + a content package cut for every platform you need.

The kit behind the room

Real gear. Owned, not rented.

Every project we run — from a 40-minute podcast to a national ad film — is shot and finished on kit we own and know inside-out.

Cameras & lenses

RED Komodo 6K

RED Komodo 6K

Sony FX6

Sony FX6

Sony FX3

Sony FX3

Sony ZV-E1 ×3

Sony ZV-E1 ×3

Sigma Art primes

Sigma Art primes

Canon RF cinema zooms

Canon RF cinema zooms

Lighting

Aputure 600D Pro

Aputure 600D Pro

Aputure 300X ×2

Aputure 300X ×2

Amaran F22c RGB

Amaran F22c RGB

Profoto B10X strobes

Profoto B10X strobes

Astera Titan tubes

Astera Titan tubes

Audio

Rodecaster Pro II

Rodecaster Pro II

Shure SM7B ×4

Shure SM7B ×4

Sennheiser MKH 416

Sennheiser MKH 416

DPA 4060 lavs

DPA 4060 lavs

Pro Tools · iZotope RX 11

Pro Tools · iZotope RX 11

Post & software

DaVinci Resolve Studio

DaVinci Resolve Studio

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects · Cinema 4D

After Effects · Cinema 4D

Figma · Frame.io

Figma · Frame.io

Capture One · Photoshop

Capture One · Photoshop

How we work

Three principles we don't bend on.

Craft

The work has to be good enough to stop someone mid-scroll, every time, not just on the pitch.

Candor

We'll tell you when an idea won't work before we take your budget to prove it.

Compounding

One-off campaigns fade; systems (brand, content, product) get stronger the longer we run them.

The team

The people in the rooms.

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Bring your idea into the room.

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