SOS visits Real World Studios

[@WarmVoice]

What's not to love. The gear, the talented staff, the wonderful music created by the visiting artists, and the owner. World class ❤️

[@jeremythornton433]

This is fantastic! I'm so very glad this place exists! It's not just a great studio, it's a fully functioning gear museum. I've always thought the mixer should not be separated from the musicians. After all, the engineer is a musician, he just plays the mixer!

[@davidhopkins3004]

Ah, this brings back a wonderful souvenir of my visit there some years ago. Felt like stepping into the Tardis!!!! The walls echoed with the vibes left by the incredible artists that have recorded there. over the years .... Beautiful!

[@danniielle]

This is one of my favourite studios! Such an inspiration! 💖💖💖

[@iangibsonofficial]

I’m lucky enough to have been to Real World. It really is a very creative space.

[@iAAo99bai]

Lovely coverage. Good to see a video covering more than just gears, techniques, acoustics etc. This gives a sense of artistic-engineering-human context in studio setup. Wonderful stuff.

[@lamachineamixer]

Amazing tour of the studio, thank you! Peter Gabriel's US album was my main influence as I learned to be a sound engineer...

[@intheblink]

Seeing Dickie here was really good, but oh my goodness, it really made me realize how much time has passed. He has aged gracefully, but he’s so much more mellow. Same with Peter. I hope we get another Peter Gabriel album soon. The world needs it.

[@TheNewma225]

It’s a comin’!!!!

[@ChristopherWoods]

This is one of those bucket list venues for anyone involved or even interested in music technology, recording or performance. What a fantastically and thoughtfully built and maintained place. This video was a great (if short!) look into the main studio areas, and also great to see a fairly young staff of engineers and technicians working there. Ever since I first saw photos of the big room many years ago I always wished I could have done some work experience there ;-) one of the underappreciated gems of the British record business.

[@timhowes7088]

Great to see Bosendorfer as Peter’s piano choice. He’s not alone, many top artists choose this maker over other more obvious market leaders.

[@halcyondaystunes]

Wonderful little video. I've always been fascinated by Real World Studio. It looks an amazing place to be creative. The studios themselves and the outdoor surroundings are beautiful. You can definitely see how it has influenced Peter's music over the years. The stand out thing with this studio is all of the older gear being used still and preserved. It's a great thing to see. I wish this video was longer 😆

[@karakisla8]

I was just searching Real World studios these days, so good to see this video.

[@stellarrubio]

wow what an amazing space...very real! And love the contrast of tech and nature. Thanks for this refreshing and inspiring content!!

[@blerkh]

Wow! That looks like a Seventh Circle Audio chassis with 8 mic pres @5:21, the white one, under the SSL thing, to the left of the Distressors?

[@wuliwong]

Yes it is! Good eye!

[@jato1956]

What a place to call HOME!

[@kevjak51]

Dickie nice guy had a conversation with him about Peter when I went there, saying what a lovely guy Peter is.

[@antoniog2854]

What happened to the "Stone Room"? The one with the glass floor in the live room. where you'd see the river with fishes floating by?

[@santishorts]

I believe the Stone Room mutated into the current Wood Room. They look quite similar in pictures. EDIT: Disregard. Mr Jacobs below me graced us with the answer.

[@olijacobs4601]

offices as of about 10 years ago

[@PaulRichards78]

Love the one knob record for everything in the room This was the fantasy I had about my studio lol

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Beautiful. And sure, buy a Bosendorfer, you know, to tour with. 😂

[@simccaffrey]

@4:00 love the way you can just use a few spare channels of the desk as monitor stands...ah yunno, we have another thousand channels, just plob them on the console...

[@JohnH108]

These days mixing desks in a lot of studios are just very expensive laptop stands.

[@Audiojunkk]

Excellent video! What an incredible studio!

[@periurban]

0:54 Gary Lineker's talents know no bounds.

[@MyOwnWayMusic]

Very idyllic location and great spaces to work and ponder.

[@tyremanguitars]

would love to go there one day

[@leandrosilva6414]

Love this Series!! Keep up the good work!!

[@timn5008]

I was bowled over--what a set-up!--especially at the end when the train goes by! I have a commuter train run by right in front of my house/studio too, but my set-up is way more modest, to say the least. I'm guessing world-class sound reinforcement does the job for them. I wait a minute until the train is gone by, and then it's back to the recording.

[@Scotlanz]

Great video. Great studio. Has anyone ever seen Bob Leadbeater and Gareth Keenan in the same room?

[@kirtandreamrezzer]

Great insight into these ergonomic & magical recording spaces. Thank you! 💛🌟🌞

[@vicesquadpunk]

Millions of £'s spent on such an amazing studio and ancillary buildings that inspire creativity and yet, in my rented flat studio room we are also encouraged to work together in the same space 😂👍

[@murraywebster1228]

A dream come true, would love to work there, just one time, spaces and gear like this won’t be built and so fitted out anymore, hope it can survive….

[@JohnH108]

Interesting to see they still have a Fairlight there.

[@ericjohnson1811]

That was inspiring! Wow!

[@CrisBlyth]

Interestingly I see Peters Fairlight CMI IIx is out there, but not mentioned..

[@JamZorro]

Absolutely Fantastic

[@PiperbonesJ]

The speakers suggest Peter is in there a a good bit still...you can perhaps surmise what my next question would be...but I hope he has time to read that All Time Classic, The Memory Tapes of John I. Pearl ... all the best and great little tour of the little shop of blissful delights.

[@jeffhirata]

Wow, what are those monitors and huge subs? Never seen them before.

[@santibanks]

I think those are custom Exigy monitors. The former website of Real World listed them as "Exigy MHS2/S215B"

[@jeffhirata]

@@santibanks Interesting. Never heard of them. Way above my level!

[@santibanks]

@@jeffhirata probably above the level of most :P I don't even want to think about how much these cost… To be fair, you probably need a room the size of the Big Room to make them shine.

[@jeffhirata]

@@santibanks They certainly look expensive. I bet they sound amazing.

[@foxytv4896]

Yeah, Oli's now Head Engineer, cool! A pleasant and clever person for sure. :-)

[@tonyodoherty6241]

Excellent………more please!

[@judsonsnell]

I am looking at that SSL and wondering what the monthly electric bill is.

[@kingech_B15]

So that's where UAD got that nice little jingle from.

[@murraywebster1228]

Would have to have my own „Red Room“, Rest done with VST Connect Pro……

[@thehowlingterror]

A blessing and a curse sprung to my mind. Interesting all the same. Thanks

[@cmath8577]

Money well spent. Still amazing.

[@Fwuzeem]

Some really good music! Wondering how it is all paid for. Does Peter Gabriel have tons of money left over to run it all, or do people rent it out to record?

[@gjergjkastrioti1688]

By musicians booking the studio, which is how all studios either stay in business or close. It's a commercial production facility.

[@Fwuzeem]

@@gjergjkastrioti1688 ah I see. Thanks

[@coloaten6682]

Probably record labels rent it for their signed musicians as well. I'm sure PG has tons of contacts that call him to rent out space for bands/projects as well!

[@DVTOM]

Must be nice to have 100 million do have that.

[@kye903]

Needed more gratuitous footage of the ducks.

[@markbickmore5766]

Qw

[@officialsimonharris]

excellent video

[@richardpennington5445]

Can you imagine the cost of hard disc storage to support this process? Now not so bad but back in the 1990’s the cost must have been eye watering

[@therealpbristow]

IIRC, back then they were using a herd of DAT machines for the "record everything just in case" capability: Much cheaper (and less likely to go wrong!) back then than recording everything to hard disks (though there would be hard disks in the DAWs, once they came along. I'm guessing before that it was digital multitrack tape formats such as ADAT, alongside analog gear where preferred). (My source: Dim memories of Peter G. being interviewed about Real World Studios in SOS, back then when I was regularly picking it up at the newsagent each month! =:o} )

[@lasherthirteen7456]

ha! I recall bruford stating something to the effect of "I'd trade the duck pond for a decent headphone mix" BILL YOU OLD RASCAL ! I wonder if the headphone mixes still blow chunks?

[@intheblink]

I’d give multiple organs to change careers and get to hang out in this studio all day and live in Bath.

[@michaels5166]

the parts and manuals kept my interest..

[@mojito6629]

Do Peter Gabriel & family live there, daily? (Maybe not, although maybe they did, right?)

[@soundonsound]

No. Peter lives elsewhere and owns properties in several countries from what we’ve read.

[@wttw4942]

Cool and beautiful facility, and kind of smart concept in a way, I think it might be a little hard to work there with all those resonances bouncing on instrument strings and windows glass. Talking about something else I always asked to myself, why the recording industry engineering magazines, always show pictures of audio engineers posing like if it was some sort of action job! You know like equalizing and panning at the same time, etc . . . I mean , who does that sort of things in a real world mix session? Here for example we have Mr. Dickie Chappell looking like a DJ in a party, riding some vocal tracks up and down and panning signals from left to right like an incontrolable maniac!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Check out between 2:04 and 2:30! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That mixing board have fully programable automation just in case! He could program that action and even drink a coupe of coffee while checking it out W/O even touching one button after doing it. That should looked a lot more honest and less funky. LMAO! My great respects to MR Chappell he is a great engineer, no doubt about it. An I am just digesting the visuals that I see, comparing it to the way an engineer really works in a studio in a real world situation. I'm just having lots of fun with the magazines tendency of doing this stupid practice when they take pictures. It really looks very, very, very comedic and hilarious!

[@starlitedelite1]

❤🌻

[@tranquilitybase6417]

My dream job.

[@mojito6629]

The studio, especially the big room, has great environment, great atmosphere, great visual, but is it good acoustically as a recording/control room studio?? And... looking the big room from the outside always remind me of Darth Vader's helmet somehow 😁 (Is it just me? or is it even intended to?) Amazing studio and environment nonetheless

[@soundonsound]

I assure you it has some of the worlds best acoustic treatment designs. It’s very deceptive but from memory amazing how you can be in one area and not here much at all from other people around you. Unless of course you want to hear them.

[@ExpressoMechanicTV]

Fab.

[@LasseHuhtala]

Too many toys, wouldn't be able to concentrate. :-D

[@HungryManDJ]

THE DREAM

[@kennethmoncur4007]

My Mecca

[@topofthemornintoya]

Not messing about

[@xisotopex]

that looks like trout water...

[@frankfarago2825]

It's a weird one, for sure.

[@TheJoecoool]

water train ducks !!!

[@Mernard912]

is this heaven

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

KIDS IN VANZZZZ'

[@Artek604]

Don't know what the fuss it all about. My laptop, pair of headphones and copy of Ableton do all of this (and more)... j/k, obviously - that looks AWESOME!!!

[@antoniog2854]

totally! I have all that hardware gear as software on my laptop now - all I have to do is go to the park near my house which has a pond with ducks and fishes...and viola'..insta-Real World Studios-vibe. JK! lol

[@SecretAgentPaul]

It's 35 years since Sledgehammer was a hit. How did he afford all this??

[@antoniog2854]

35 year ago, and with a it like Sledgehammer, it "was" easy to maintain, probably. My question, is how does he maintain the place NOW? With all the old gear to maintain and so much staff around. He hasn't had a hit in a long time and I wonder how often the studios get booked.

[@tyremanguitars]

he has sold a lot of albums and toured the world, 35 years ago property was a lot cheaper than it is today and everybody bought albums.

[@tyremanguitars]

@@antoniog2854 royalties

[@WillyJunior]

He probably invested his money wisely.

[@antoniog2854]

@@WillyJunior Thats what I'm thinking. Royalties are not what they used to be in the age of streaming...unless you are Drake, Ed Sheeran, ect

[@howardshillingford4997]

I see black engineers are not allowed nor assistant engineers. I went through the same thing years ago at electric lady. It's a shame. Hardcore racism in full effect.

[@matiasss550]

they us UAD for conversion? LOL hahahahahaha

[@stevebliss7042]

Bit of a dump if you ask me

[@zip7806]

FU