Welcome to Real World Studios

Set in stunning rural surroundings near the city of Bath in South West England, Real World Studios is a unique residential recording facility where artists, producers and engineers can escape their daily distractions and focus solely on making music.

Great excitement and some indigent looking swans ...

May 18

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Great excitement and some indigent looking swans as a goose pays us a visit.

📷 @yorktillyer

#recordingstudio #musicproduction
#architecture #solidstatelogic #studiolife #RealWorldStudios #TheBigRoom
#residentialstudio
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#studiolife
#petergabriel #womad #realworldrecords

“That buzzing-noise means something.You don’t ...

Apr 28

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“That buzzing-noise means something.You don’t get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something.If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.” A. A. Milne’s Winnie The Pooh

Either the bees are back or there is an experimental noise band in the studio. Either way the sun is shining at Real World Studios

#RecordingStudio #MusicProduction
#architecture #TheBigRoom
#SolidStateLogic #studiolife
#RealWorldStudios #PeterGabriel #WOMAD #RealWorldRecords

📷 @yorktillyer

Hey everyone. We've got this lovely Hammond ...

Apr 25

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Hey everyone. We've got this lovely Hammond Concert E organ that we need to part ways with. If anyone would like to take it off our hands and give it a good home please send us a message! Free to whoever can collect it.
Balanced XLR + jack out, built in chorus/trem, sounds amazing. One key has snapped off.

Even the infectiously upbeat @bablbluz who are ...

Apr 1

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Even the infectiously upbeat @bablbluz who are recording in #TheWoodRoom this week and apparently enjoying the quintessentially English rain, appeared relived when a moment of sunshine came out way this afternoon.

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#architecture #TheBigRoom
#SolidStateLogic #studiolife
#RealWorldStudios #PeterGabriel #WOMAD #RealWorldRecords

📷 @YorkTillyer

Final places are available for May’s Producer ...

Mar 2

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Final places are available for May’s Producer Camp- a collaborative few days here at the studio designed to elevate your music making and creativity to a new level.
Interested? realworldstudios.com/producercamp

The birds are singing as the daylight begins to ...

Feb 21

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The birds are singing as the daylight begins to stretch out into the evening at Real World Studios.

#RecordingStudio #MusicProduction
#architecture #TheBigRoom
#SolidStateLogic #studiolife #reflection #watermill
#RealWorldStudios #PeterGabriel #WOMAD #RealWorldRecords

📷 @YorkTillyer

Peter Gabriel’s birthday gives us the perfect ...

Feb 13

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Peter Gabriel’s birthday gives us the perfect opportunity to post our team photograph.

We had the unusual opportunity to gather in The Big Room and get a photograph of Peter and many of the core Real World Studios team at the end of last year.

Peter said of Real World that it’s a “…a dream studio for me. The kind of environment that I’d always wanted”. We’re so happy to be part of that dream and work in the amazing environment he created - happy birthday Peter!

From left to right and back to front:
@louisrogove
@lamurton
@itspetergabriel
@fayedolle
@mateykay
@bobleadbeater
@dominic_inic
@bobmackenzie_
@timoliver40
and special guest Rafa

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#architecture #TheBigRoom
#SolidStateLogic #studiolife
#RealWorldStudios #PeterGabriel #WOMAD #RealWorldRecords

📷 @YorkTillyer

We’re offering up to 25% off to unsigned artists...

Jan 24

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We’re offering up to 25% off to unsigned artists through until the end of April.

realworldstudios.com/unsigned

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Real World’s versatile recording and mixing and post-production studios are some of the best sounding and most acclaimed in the world. They house an array of the finest audio equipment ever made, operated by a dedicated team of recording, mixing and mastering engineers.

Embraced in its breath-taking natural environment, Real World inspires creativity. Conceived by Peter Gabriel as both a paragon of technical excellence and an idyllic artistic retreat, it’s been the source of many landmark albums by musicians from all over the globe, and is also home to world music festival WOMAD and Real World Records.

Find out why artists from all over the globe choose Real World Studios

Discover Studios

Take a peek at the sleeping and eating facilities at Real World

Discover Residential

See who has chosen to make records here in the past