SOS visits Real World Studios
Рет қаралды 67,694
Күн бұрынIn our video feature, we go behind the scenes at Real World and meet the team who help make it one of the world’s premier recording facilities. Peter Gabriel’s personal engineer Dickie Chappell also gives us an exclusive sneak peek into Peter’s writing room and recording process. With an idyllic location, inspiring creative spaces and an incredible synthesizer collection, take a tour of Real World Studios.
00:00 - Start
00:16 - Intro
01:21 - The Big Room
03:32 - The Writing Room
05:39 - The Wood Room
07:59 - Microphone Collection
08:46 - Studio Tech And Upkeep
11:05 - The Red Room
More info: www.realworldstudios.com
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cutaways: York Tillyer
© Real World Operations Ltd
Interviews: Julian G Harding
© Sound On Sound Ltd
All music courtesy of Real World Records Ltd. All songs published by Real World Works Ltd.
www.soundonsound.com/people/s...
More info on Universal Audio: u.audio/sos
................................................................................................
Subscribe! sosm.ag/subscribe
Visit www.soundonsound.com
................................................................................................
Get FREE 170-page RECORDING TECHNOLOGY eBook: sosm.ag/recording-ebook
................................................................................................
LIKE Sound On Sound: / soundonsoundmag
FOLLOW Sound On Sound: / soundonsoundmag
Follow Sound On Sound on Instagram: @soundonsoundmag
#petergabriel #musicproduction #recording #studio
@WarmVoice Жыл бұрын
What's not to love. The gear, the talented staff, the wonderful music created by the visiting artists, and the owner. World class ❤️
@jeremythornton433 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
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!
@intheblink 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a comin’!!!!
@leandrosilva6414 2 жыл бұрын
Love this Series!! Keep up the good work!!
@lamachineamixer 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing tour of the studio, thank you! Peter Gabriel's US album was my main influence as I learned to be a sound engineer...
@timhowes7088 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@stellarrubio 2 жыл бұрын
wow what an amazing space...very real! And love the contrast of tech and nature. Thanks for this refreshing and inspiring content!!
@itube0103 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ChristopherWoods 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@karakisla8 2 жыл бұрын
I was just searching Real World studios these days, so good to see this video.
@kirtandreamrezzer Жыл бұрын
Great insight into these ergonomic & magical recording spaces. Thank you! 💛🌟🌞
@donkeyfacekilla1 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! What an incredible studio!
@halcyondaystunes 2 жыл бұрын
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 😆
@tonyodoherty6241 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent………more please!
@JamZorro 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Fantastic
@iangibsonofficial 2 жыл бұрын
I’m lucky enough to have been to Real World. It really is a very creative space.
@PaulRichards78 2 жыл бұрын
Love the one knob record for everything in the room This was the fantasy I had about my studio lol
@kevjak51 2 жыл бұрын
Dickie nice guy had a conversation with him about Peter when I went there, saying what a lovely guy Peter is.
@ericjohnson1811 2 жыл бұрын
That was inspiring! Wow!
@MyOwnWayMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Very idyllic location and great spaces to work and ponder.
@murraywebster1228 2 жыл бұрын
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….
@timn5008 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@sub-jec-tiv 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. And sure, buy a Bosendorfer, you know, to tour with. 😂
@foxytv4896 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Oli's now Head Engineer, cool! A pleasant and clever person for sure. :-)
@vicesquadpunk 2 жыл бұрын
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 😂👍
@tyremanguitars 2 жыл бұрын
would love to go there one day
@jato1956 Жыл бұрын
What a place to call HOME!
@simccaffrey 2 жыл бұрын
@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 2 жыл бұрын
These days mixing desks in a lot of studios are just very expensive laptop stands.
@thehowlingterror 2 жыл бұрын
A blessing and a curse sprung to my mind. Interesting all the same. Thanks
@officialsimonharris 2 жыл бұрын
excellent video
@periurban Жыл бұрын
0:54 Gary Lineker's talents know no bounds.
@Scotlanz 2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Great studio. Has anyone ever seen Bob Leadbeater and Gareth Keenan in the same room?
@PiperbonesJ 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@blerkh 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
Yes it is! Good eye!
@kingech_B15 2 жыл бұрын
So that's where UAD got that nice little jingle from.
@JohnH108 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see they still have a Fairlight there.
@antoniog2854 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
offices as of about 10 years ago
@woodyforrest313 Жыл бұрын
whoa, a mpc renaissance up and running! which means gabriel uses akai´s daw called mpc software. he is probably the only pro who does that.
@kye903 2 жыл бұрын
Needed more gratuitous footage of the ducks.
@markbickmore5766 2 жыл бұрын
Qw
@ExpressoMechanicTV 2 жыл бұрын
Fab.
@CrisBlyth 2 жыл бұрын
Interestingly I see Peters Fairlight CMI IIx is out there, but not mentioned..
@murraywebster1228 2 жыл бұрын
Would have to have my own „Red Room“, Rest done with VST Connect Pro……
@starlitedelite1 10 ай бұрын
❤🌻
@cmath8577 2 жыл бұрын
Money well spent. Still amazing.
@intheblink Жыл бұрын
I’d give multiple organs to change careers and get to hang out in this studio all day and live in Bath.
@judsonsnell Жыл бұрын
I am looking at that SSL and wondering what the monthly electric bill is.
@lasherthirteen7456 11 ай бұрын
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?
@wttw4942 2 жыл бұрын
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!
@tranquilitybase6417 2 жыл бұрын
My dream job.
@jeffhirata 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, what are those monitors and huge subs? Never seen them before.
@santibanks 2 жыл бұрын
I think those are custom Exigy monitors. The former website of Real World listed them as "Exigy MHS2/S215B"
@jeffhirata 2 жыл бұрын
@@santibanks Interesting. Never heard of them. Way above my level!
@santibanks 2 жыл бұрын
@@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 2 жыл бұрын
@@santibanks They certainly look expensive. I bet they sound amazing.
@michaels5166 2 жыл бұрын
the parts and manuals kept my interest..
@Fwuzeem 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
By musicians booking the studio, which is how all studios either stay in business or close. It's a commercial production facility.
@Fwuzeem 2 жыл бұрын
@@gjergjkastrioti1688 ah I see. Thanks
@coloaten6682 2 жыл бұрын
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!
@mojito6629 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@richardpennington5445 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
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} )
@HungryManDJ 2 жыл бұрын
THE DREAM
@DVTOM 2 жыл бұрын
Must be nice to have 100 million do have that.
@LasseHuhtala 2 жыл бұрын
Too many toys, wouldn't be able to concentrate. :-D
@gayperfume 2 жыл бұрын
wait, is that a fender plugin?
@artysanmobile 2 жыл бұрын
we all have fender plugins. Mine’s covered in blond tolex.
@mojito6629 2 жыл бұрын
Do Peter Gabriel & family live there, daily? (Maybe not, although maybe they did, right?)
@soundonsound 2 жыл бұрын
No. Peter lives elsewhere and owns properties in several countries from what we’ve read.
@kennethmoncur4007 10 ай бұрын
My Mecca
@topofthemornintoya 2 жыл бұрын
Not messing about
@xisotopex 2 жыл бұрын
that looks like trout water...
@TheJoecoool 2 жыл бұрын
water train ducks !!!
@frankfarago2825 2 жыл бұрын
It's a weird one, for sure.
@zvotaisvfi8678 6 ай бұрын
KIDS IN VANZZZZ'
@Artek604 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
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
@Mernard912 2 жыл бұрын
is this heaven
@SecretAgentPaul 2 жыл бұрын
It's 35 years since Sledgehammer was a hit. How did he afford all this??
@antoniog2854 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
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 2 жыл бұрын
@@antoniog2854 royalties
@WillyJunior 2 жыл бұрын
He probably invested his money wisely.
@antoniog2854 2 жыл бұрын
@@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
@stevebliss7042 2 жыл бұрын
Bit of a dump if you ask me
@howardshillingford4997 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@sluttrainer4061 2 жыл бұрын
The giant curved screen in front of the monitoring system bothers me. That's gonna introduce all sorts of bad acoustics
@zip7806 Жыл бұрын
FU