The Live Room
Rehearse & Track4.4 × 6.8 × 2.8 m — 30 m² floor
A room, not a box. Full backline, drum riser and a ceiling high enough to let your songs breathe.
Est. 2025 — Gosport, Hampshire
Rehearsal, recording, mixing and mastering under one roof. Rooms that sound right, gear that just works, and a professional behind the desk who actually listens.
Book a session→Hot Cat Studios is a rehearsal room, recording studio and mix room in Gosport, five minutes from the Portsmouth ferry. Two rooms, a full backline, and someone behind the desk who cares what comes out of them.
At Hot Cat Studios, bands rehearse, records get made, and the two feed each other. What the studio earns goes straight back into the rooms and the gear rather than out of the door, so it keeps getting better without anyone having to wait for it. Covers band getting tight for a wedding, or tracking your first EP — same room, same attention to detail.
4.4 × 6.8 × 2.8 m — 30 m² floor
A room, not a box. Full backline, drum riser and a ceiling high enough to let your songs breathe.
4.9 × 3.4 × 2.5 m — 17 m² floor
Nearfield-monitored and honest.
Every price below includes the backline, the PA, the mics, the tea — and on recording days, the engineer's setup time before you arrive. Recording is priced by the song or by the day, never by the hour, so the clock never decides when a take is finished. Book more than one song and the price per song comes down from there.
Want to hear it first? A few of the records made in these rooms —
BEEP BEEP BOOM
Pioneers
Write / Recorded / Co-ProducedSam Over
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London
South Coast Casino
Write / Recorded / Produced / Mixed / MasteredSam Over, Dan Johnston
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Peace Between
The Stoics
Recorded / Produced / Mixed / MasteredSam Over
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How To Be Happy
Nick Magenta
Recorded / Co-Produced / Mixed / MasteredSam Over
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KAIJU
UnFocused
Write / Recorded / Produced / Mixed / MasteredDan Johnston
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Hear everything we’ve worked on — the full showcase →
Two and three hour blocks in the live room. Backline, PA, mics, stands and mixing desk included. Bring your own cables, and your own snare and cymbals — or hire ours for £7.50.
£35 /2hr£47 / 3hr — save £5.50For bands who already know what the songs are. We mic them up, get good sounds and capture them properly — you direct, we engineer. A day runs roughly nine to five, and we aren’t strict about it.
£375 /dayPre-production, two studio days, mix and master in one price, plus three hours of rehearsal per song to tighten up beforehand. This is us shaping the record with you, not just capturing it. Extra days at £275. Book more than one song and the first is £850, every one after £700.
£850 /song2 days, mix, master & 3hrs rehearsalSend us your stems from anywhere. Two rounds of revisions included, and a master that holds up next to anything else in the playlist.
From £150 /trackA 600w PA, 16-channel mixer, four mics, stands and all the cables, out the door for the weekend. Enough for a function room, a small hall or a party.
£120 /hire* Snare and cymbals are a paid add-on — £7.50, bookable with your session.
“Sam at Hot Cat was incredible. Not only did he turn the mixes/masters around quickly at a high quality, but also helped with plenty of production elements and his guitar/bass wizardry. Couldn’t recommend more.”
— Nick Magenta, London · 2026“Hot Cat Studios is my go-to for all my bands. Reasonable pricing, good equipment and a great room.”
— Nathan, Gematria, Gosport · 2026“Sam creates a welcoming and creative space, ensuring the best sound and equipment are provided for your session. He is always keen to talk, share his knowledge of the industry, and help push you and your music forward.”
— Hannah, For the Monks, SouthamptonEverything in the room: full backline, PA and mixing desk, microphones and stands. The kit is set up and ready but comes without breakables, so bring your own snare and cymbals — or hire ours for £7.50. Guitarists and bassists need to bring their own cables.
Yes — regular block-booking bands can store amps and cabs on site at no extra cost, subject to space. Ask when you book.
Both. Some bands want the energy of a live take with minimal overdubs; others want to build it piece by piece. We'll talk it through before the session so the day runs the way you want it to.
Yes, and it isn't only for EPs. Two songs, three, a run of singles — whatever you call it, booking more than one at a time costs less per song.
The first song is £850. Every song after that is £700. So three songs is £2,250 rather than £2,550, and five is £3,650 rather than £4,250. Six or more and we'll price the block as a whole — an album is a different job to a run of singles, and per-song maths stops making sense.
The reason is practical: most of the cost of the first song is getting there. Mics rigged, sounds dialled, session templates built, everyone settled. Song two starts from all of that already done, so it's genuinely cheaper for us to make — and the saving goes to you rather than into the margin.
The songs need to be one project with the dates booked together. Come back six months later and the rig has long since been pulled down, so the saving isn't there to pass on.
Three hours per song, and it's pooled rather than parcelled out — a three-song project gets nine hours to use however suits. One long pre-production day before you start, three separate blocks, or split around the tracking dates.
It's included because it works. A band that's tight before the red light goes on gets far more done in a day, and you'll be rehearsing in the live room on the same backline you're about to record on.
The hours are yours from the deposit until four weeks after your last studio day, subject to the room being free.
Most land in two studio days, which is what the Production Package covers. We agree the plan at pre-production, so you'll know what we're aiming for before we start — and if something is running longer than we expected, we'll talk about it before we get there rather than after.
If a song does need more, extra days are £275 rather than the usual £375 — so the longer a project runs, the better value it gets.
It's also why the package is worth taking over separate days. Two days booked on their own plus mixing and mastering comes to £900; the package is £850 and the rehearsal hours are on top of that.
Rehearsals go through Jammed and are paid by card when you book. Bookings close 24 hours before the session, and cancellations inside 48 hours aren't refunded — we plan the week around who's coming in, and a late drop-out is a room we can't fill.
Recording and production aren't booked through Jammed. Use Start a project to send us the outline, and we'll come back with dates and a quote.
Once you're happy, a 50% deposit fixes the dates — single days as well as full projects. We'll send an invoice with our bank details built in, so it's a couple of taps to pay. The balance is due before we hand the final files over. Your rehearsal hours open up the moment the deposit lands, so you can start prepping straight away.
If plans change the deposit moves to new dates rather than disappearing: 14 days' notice for a one or two song project, 28 days for anything larger. Inside that, or if the project stops altogether, we keep it — the days are blocked out and we can't fill them at short notice. Rehearsal hours you've already used come out of it as well.
Unit A19, Sanderson Centre, Lees Lane, Gosport, PO12 3UL. Ground-floor load-in straight from the car park and free on-site parking. The car park gate is just down Moreland Road — come through there rather than trying the front.
Live availability, straight from our diary. Choose a room, a date and a length — you'll get confirmation by email without waiting on a reply from us.
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Email info@hotcatstudios.com and we'll sort you a slot.
Recording & songwriting projects
Production projects start with a pre-production meeting — what the songs need, how long it’ll take, what it’ll cost. If you just want a day with an engineer, say so and we’ll get you booked. Either way, send the outline and we’ll come back within 24 hours.