New REAL WORLD STUDIO WEBSITE...WOW

[Shaman]

Love the pics of the studio refurbishing....nice SSL....take a look thumbsup

here

[True North]

That has got to be one of the most annoying websites I have ever used. Anyone got 40 minutes to burn just trying to figure out how to navigate through what should be a fairly simple site?

Don't get me wrong I Love Peter Gabriel.....but that website is brutal

[Auratone]

Belle foto.

[thenoiseflower]

the studio is inspiring, even through the computer.

[Tomer1]

Its like a small town dedicated to studio recording

Defently alot of money,tought and time was spend there. thumbsup

[cajonezzz]

I wonder how much the big room books for?

[thejook]

Uh, that site gives pretty much NO information about the studio.

Great.

[chadly]

Originally Posted by thejook

Uh, that site gives pretty much NO information about the studio.

Great.

And I love it. It's Real World Studios. . . I think it's one of those places that doesn't have to tell you everything (I still want to know, though! I think they used to have it all posted) The sort of "if you have to ask the price, you probably shouldn't be there" thing applies to the gear list. But that's just my opinion- what does everyone else think? The best studios in the world- do they need gear lists posted online?

AMAZING PICTURES! Great site!

[Lindell]

wondeful pictures! I've been there a short visit once. That control room is MASSIVE.
You have this great view over a huge meadow right on front of you.....
I guess the rate is between £800-1200 for studio A.

Originally Posted by cajonezzz

I wonder how much the big room books for?

[SnakeCained]

I love that studio!

I had a brief go in the smaller AW900+ room a few ago and really liked it.

The whole vibe is creative and supportive and makes me want to work hard.

I quite like the photo collection on the website.

[Shaman]

Did someone realize the AWS control room has quite some similaritiy to dangerous dave´s room ?

Same red walls, same board, even same furniture...

[ISedlacek]

The uncontrolled slide show is a bit annoying. You cannot select the pictures yourself.

[djwayne]

Loreena McKennitt has a history of recording there. Her cd's sound great. Her comments about recording there, have been "The food is a feast", "Had the time of my life."

She also has a new cd recorded there recently, due out sometime soon.

[HotRats]

...not a recording studio...just a piece of God's house...

[rashadrm@hotmai]

The big room is still one of the most legendary and innovative recording spaces of all time.
The website design should be worked on a bit more to meet todays standards, something more on the lines of Sterlingsound.com. After all this is Peter Gabriel we're talking about here.
Is it just me or does the main building kinda have that Mad Max and the Thunderdome vibe from the outside?
The property is amazing.

[clip6]

Originally Posted by ISedlacek

The uncontrolled slide show is a bit annoying. You cannot select the pictures yourself.

On a Mac control click on the picture to reveal the flash control panel.

[DaBear]

Originally Posted by True North

That has got to be one of the most annoying websites I have ever used. Anyone got 40 minutes to burn just trying to figure out how to navigate through what should be a fairly simple site?

Don't get me wrong I Love Peter Gabriel.....but that website is brutal

I Agree....total waste of time.
They should sack web designer!!

[djwayne]

A letter from Loreena McKennitt regarding recording at Real World........


A VIEW FROM THE SWANS IN THE POND

As the days now reach their arms toward longer light, it is with some satisfaction that we have finished our most recent sojourn in the studio in England. The undulating Wiltshire countryside provided an appropriately serene and reflective visual backdrop to our music-making in the Big Room at Real World Studios, which always makes us feel like we are slipping into the comforts of a home away from home.

The Big Room really is a big room. It is multi-tiered and built with live performance tracking by multiple musicians in mind, and has long windows at the front that look out over a pond that never ceases to amuse and delight those of us who are inside wrestling with the musical notes. Last summer we found ourselves watching the heron that came to fish at regular hours and would remind us that it was time for tea. During our most recent visit, we were regaled by the visits of a swan family: seven of them in total, five cygnets and then Mom and Dad. Most wonderfully, they would often visit at night, gliding past the studio windows like silvery ghosts, bathed in the spill-over of light from the studio windows.

As usual, our days were long, but amazingly they didn’t feel that way. This is largely due to the wonderful design and size of space that we work in, like a big musical kitchen, spiced with the wonderful camaraderie of my musicians and colleagues.

After a ramble in the kitchen, some heading for the traditional English breakfast and others just for the croissants and delicious local jam, we would begin our day around 10am, take lunch between 1 and 2pm and then return to work until dinner was called around 7pm. We returned to the studio for the third instalment and would often work till at least 10.30pm if not much later. This daily cycle can go on for at least two to three weeks at a time without stop.

I am sometimes asked why we record at Real World Studios and not in Canada, which is my home base and where there are and have been some very fine recording studios. Our choice of Real World is largely due to two major factors.

The first consideration is being able to conveniently accommodate musicians from all parts of the world by setting up in a centralised location. In some cases, issues like work visas play a role. A second element is that due to the fact that I have also chosen to run my own label /management company, I find it psychologically helpful to be as far away from those kinds of matters as possible, or at least have them diminished by distance. I must truly live and function creatively from another part of my brain. I am firmly convinced there is a kind of “muscle memory” involved in familiar spaces, and although the studio there is familiar, it is still “fresh”, which I also believe is an integral element in the process of creativity.

This musical session once again involved my long-standing colleagues Brian Hughes and Donald Quan as well as Hugh Marsh and Caroline Lavelle. Our first musical guests were a wonderful viol group called Fretwork. The viols are a family of bowed instrument somewhat older than the violin family and are played without vibrato. I absolutely adore the sound they create, and anyone who has played a bowed instrument can appreciate how challenging it is to create a beautiful sound without vibrato.

I also invited some of our Greek friends who had joined us in the summer, to record a lovely piece from the Mediterranean. As with many Celtic melodies, it seems that its origin been lost and is enjoyed if not claimed by many countries in the Mediterranean .

Our last musical guest arrived from Oslo, a wonderful woman and superb musician, Annbjørg Lien, who plays a couple of bowed instruments from Scandinavia. One is called a hardanger fiddle and the other (which looks like an elongated hurdy-gurdy) is the nyckelharpe. The latter truly is a haunting-sounding instrument and before we knew it, word had gotten around to some of the others in the studio environment that there was an “unusual instrument” on the property. We soon had a flock of visitors… like bird watchers come to spot a rare bird!

We wound up the session a little ahead of seeing the snowdrops peek above the sleeping earth with all its beauty and bounty. And just as we were leaving, the fury regarding the insensitive display of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was starting to get under way and at this moment is only barely starting to subside.

Through my music, I have tried in my own humble way to explore many facets of history and humanity through the strong belief that there is more to bind us together than tear us apart. Although on one hand we all cherish the right to freedom of expression, the greater challenge, I believe, is having the wisdom in the interests of social harmony and respect to know when to exert it. I would like to add my voice to the many others around the world who come from various religious and non-religious persuasions who believe that the voice of sensitivity, moderation, tolerance, forgiveness and love is the one which must prevail. In all the ways we can make music in the world, hopefully we can make sure that that raising our voice for peace is heard.

– L.M.

[djwayne]

You're welcome !!

[initialsBB]

Originally Posted by True North

That has got to be one of the most annoying websites I have ever used. Anyone got 40 minutes to burn just trying to figure out how to navigate through what should be a fairly simple site?

Yeah, no kidding -- "Latest News", "Studio Availability", "Enquiries." Such mindboggling complexity

[lucey]

We were there last month ... even mixed a little on the SSL 900+ (thanks to Owen the Studio Mgr. for setting that up) and we had a tour of all the rooms. It's a lovely place with no attitude.

The website is beautiful. The images move at the pace of the studio within the Box landscape. If giving in to that pace annoys you ... maybe don't go there to work.

If you have questions they have Owen for those, after 20 years of service he's far better than any website info blurbs.


The main room was actually smaller than I imagined from the photos. A very nice room, just smaller than I imagined. My favorite detail is the HVAC ducting ... huge ceramic pipes, so no cold air flows over metal (resulting in positive ions or energy loss - as in most of the airconditioned world).

Neutral air ... lovely.

[lucey]

and if you negative cynics need any proof of your condition ...


From Latest News:

"Although the website is only half the age of the studios we though we'd better make some chages to. This is very much a work in progress over the coming weeks, but hopefully we will be bigger and better, reflecting the improvement to the facilites around us - The studios have a new SSL XL 9000 in the flagship Big Room studio, a complete redesign and refit in The Production Room with a sleek installation of an SSl AWS 900+ to complement the much improved acoustics. There's new catering on site from Energigi and flexible new spaces in our Millside studios.

The website's going to be racing to keep up with and show you all the changes around us. In the meantime we present the essentials.

With regards, Webmaster"





It's pretty sad when one of the most beautiful studios in the world gets grief from a cadre of internet regulars too rushed to judge to even read the website's "too little" content ... or maybe I expect too much from Gearslutz?

[thejook]

Originally Posted by lucey

and if you negative cynics need any proof of your condition ...


From Latest News:

"Although the website is only half the age of the studios we though we'd better make some chages to. This is very much a work in progress over the coming weeks, but hopefully we will be bigger and better, reflecting the improvement to the facilites around us - The studios have a new SSL XL 9000 in the flagship Big Room studio, a complete redesign and refit in The Production Room with a sleek installation of an SSl AWS 900+ to complement the much improved acoustics. There's new catering on site from Energigi and flexible new spaces in our Millside studios.

The website's going to be racing to keep up with and show you all the changes around us. In the meantime we present the essentials.

With regards, Webmaster"





It's pretty sad when one of the most beautiful studios in the world gets grief from a cadre of internet regulars too rushed to judge to even read the website's "too little" content ... or maybe I expect too much from Gearslutz?

Well, if the pace of PG's album releases are any indications, this thing should be done in oh, say 10 years.

[djwayne]

Originally Posted by thejook

Well, if the pace of PG's album releases are any indications, this thing should be done in oh, say 10 years.

With a studio like this, he could put out a cd every week if he wanted to.

[jindrich]

hey just found a way to save the images from that flash movie.

if your on safari, go to window>activity
from that window click on the arrow that shows the real world studio website.

as the flash movie loads you will see the images load on that window as well, like this one, one at a time:

http://www.realworldstudios.com/imag...s_slides_1.jpg


just double click on them and it will be downloaded.


this trick also works to download videos from youtube



your welcome ;-)

edit: actually i found out the images are a direct link from the website itself, so you can acces them just by clicking on the url above, and change the number to the image you want to get to the rest of them

like i want this woodenrack, and the aws behind ;-) :

[Cojo]

Is that floor made of MDF and ducttape???

http://www.realworldstudios.com/imag..._slides_39.jpg

/Cojo

[proxy]

Originally Posted by jindrich

http://www.realworldstudios.com/imag...s_slides_1.jpg

The pics are awesome. That looks like a nice big rack of 33114s...!

[7 Hz]

Originally Posted by Cojo

Is that floor made of MDF and ducttape???

http://www.realworldstudios.com/imag..._slides_39.jpg

/Cojo

Looks to me like cardboard and duct tape - a good idea if you have a nice floor and are gonna be moving slabs of mixing desk over it.

It's great there are still studios like this. Long live real world :-)

Website could do with some equipment lists and prices I think.

[warmer]

I used to live near these studios, but could only look on from the outside

One day, one day, one day.....(my mantra)

[Jules]

Originally Posted by True North

That has got to be one of the most annoying websites I have ever used. Anyone got 40 minutes to burn just trying to figure out how to navigate through what should be a fairly simple site?

Don't get me wrong I Love Peter Gabriel.....but that website is brutal

Website drove me mad too.. must have missed the 'work in progress' part..