How Much Does It Cost to Record a Podcast in Chiang Mai? (2026)

Short answer: recording a podcast in Chiang Mai ranges from almost nothing, if you already own the gear, to around 1,500 THB per hour for a professional studio that has everything set up and ready. What you actually pay depends on one thing more than any other: whether you are paying for a room, or for finished content.

The real price bands in Chiang Mai

DIY and home setups: the cost of your own kit. A corner of a room, a ring light and a clip-on mic can get you posting. The cash cost is low, but the quality ceiling and the editing time are both on you. Building a setup that actually looks and sounds professional, good mics, a mixer, cameras, lighting and some acoustic treatment, adds up to tens of thousands of baht before you record a single episode.

Bare room rentals: cheap, but empty. Some spaces rent as a photogenic room with power and daylight and nothing else. Cheap for what it is, but you bring every piece of gear and every skill yourself. This only makes sense if you already own a full kit.

A professional podcast studio: from 1,500 THB per hour. This is the mid range, and for most people it is the lowest cost per finished episode. You walk in, the gear is already rigged, someone runs the session, and you can have the episode edited for you. No buying equipment, no learning to run it, no setup time eating into your recording.

What "1,500 THB an hour" actually gets you at RealSpace

To make the number concrete, here is what is in the room at our studio in central Chiang Mai:

• Three Shure broadcast microphones, an MV7+, an MV7 and an SM7B, into a TASCAM Mixcast mixer, so up to three people can record on mic at once.
• Multi-camera video on a Sony FX30 and a Sony A7III, lit by two Amaran 300c lights, with a Neewer teleprompter available.
• An acoustically treated room, so your audio does not sound like an apartment.
• The option to take the raw files, or have the episode colour graded, edited and cut into social clips in-house.

Everything is set up before you arrive. You sit down and press record.

How to keep the cost per episode down

• Batch your episodes. Record two or three in one session and your per-episode studio cost drops sharply.
• Come prepared. Every minute setting up questions on the clock is a minute you paid for. Bring your outline ready.
• Use a membership if you record regularly. Ad hoc hourly booking is best for a one-off. If you are running an ongoing show, a membership that includes edited episodes usually works out cheaper per episode than paying hourly plus separate editing.
• Decide up front whether you want raw files or a finished edit. Editing is where a lot of hidden cost hides. If your own time is worth anything, having it edited for you is often cheaper than doing it yourself.

The honest summary

If you already own good gear and enjoy editing, a home setup is the cheapest option and a bare room rental covers you when you need a better backdrop. If you want to walk in, record a proper multi-camera episode and leave with finished content, a professional studio from 1,500 THB an hour is almost always the better value once you count your own time.

New here? Your first hour is 50% off. See the full studio details on our podcast studio page.