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.

Real World’s versatile recording and mixing, post-production and rehearsal rooms 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 professional 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.

Latest News

New Website

We are pleased to announce our new website. Please bear with us as we iron out [...]

Lisa on maternity leave

Our bookings co-ordinator, Lisa, is on maternity leave from today. We welcome Emma to the team [...]

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band – Big Machine

Recorded at Real World in the Big Room, Wood Room and even the stairwell, Eliza [...]

Roland AIRA – 360 Video

360 VR video shot in the Big Room by Roland

Sidestepper – Que Te Llama Live in the Big Room

Sidestepper release Que To Llama, Live from the Big Room.

Marillion – FEAR

Marillion have released their latest album, F*** Everyone and Run; which was recorded at Real [...]