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How do I choose a studio environment for my podcast?

Your studio environment is the setting your podcast is filmed in — everything from a sleek tech studio to a rooftop skyline. You pick it from the Studio Backgrounds panel, alongside your avatar on the Avatar tab, and it gets baked directly into your avatar when you build it.

Step 1 — Choose your format​

At the top of Studio Backgrounds, pick between two formats:

  • 1–2 Guests — a standard, two-chair setting. Room for you and up to one guest.
  • Panel · 3 — a three-chair panel setting. Room for you and up to two guests.

Switching formats filters the environment grid below to only show settings built for that format, and picks a sensible default environment for you automatically.

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Switching from Panel · 3 back down to 1–2 Guests trims your speaker list to one guest if you'd already added two — the extra guest is removed automatically, since a two-chair setting only has room for one.

Step 2 — Browse and pick an environment​

The grid shows every environment available for your chosen format — Tech Studio, Photographer Studio, Football Studio, Basketball Studio, Gaming Studio, Political Studio, Study Room, City Rooftop, and more. Click any thumbnail to select it; your current pick is highlighted, and shown by name just below the grid.

Your environment gets baked in with your avatar​

Environment selection happens on the Avatar tab because it's part of the avatar build itself — when you click Build my avatar or Use this, your chosen environment is baked in together with your avatar in one step, not applied separately afterward.

That means:

  • Pick your environment before you build, since it can't be swapped out after the fact without rebuilding.
  • Once you move on to later tabs, your environment shows up as a locked-in, completed step ("Environment plate") rather than something you can still change.
tip

If you want to try the same avatar in a different setting, that's a rebuild rather than a re-pick — see How do I switch or rebuild my avatar?

What AwakeVerse handles for you​

  • Filtering environments to your format automatically, so you're never shown a three-chair panel setting while building a solo or two-person podcast.
  • Sensible defaults when you switch formats, so you're never left without a selection.
  • Baking your environment and avatar together, so what you picked here is exactly what appears in your finished podcast — no separate compositing step to think about.

When it's done​

Your environment choice carries all the way through to your finished podcast, visible as a completed step once you reach the Generate tab. From here, if you're doing an open conversation, add your guest next — see How do I add a guest to my podcast?

How do I build my avatar — from a photo or by generating one? · How do I add a guest to my podcast? · What is Podcast Studio?