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Evolution Studios
Evolution Studios is a 1,000 sq foot recording, tracking, mixing and production facility based in central Oxford. Since opening in 2012 we've worked with a diverse range of bands and actors including Frank Turner, Philip Selway, Charlie Cunningham, RY X, Fixers, Sir Ben Kingsley, Harry Shearer, Emilia Clarke and Alexander Armstrong, amongst many others.

A great sounding spacious control room with beautiful views and natural light, featuring three computer screens. Live rooms and four separation / vocal booths with oak floors, acoustically controllable with baffles and an Indian sandstone wall. Front-end including mic preamps, compressors and FX from Universal Audio, SSL, TL Audio, 1960's BBC, Lexicon, TC Electronic, etc.
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Nick has over 25 years' experience in the music business. During this time he has played keyboards for Ride, Frank Fish and the Fins, Hurricane #1 and The Almighty, amongst many others. As well as playing live, Nick has always been involved in writing, producing and recording music across many genres.
The live room is an acoustically versatile space in which musicians can create a fully live performance without sacrificing audio quality and minimising microphone spill. In its natural live state, the room's oak floor creates a warm ambience which is great for drums. The controllable sandstone walls can also add presence and even anger to drums.
Trident 80B with 32 Mic / Line Inputs all with lovely B series four band EQ and a separate monitor section. I brought the desk from Sawmills Studio in Cornwall. They had three originally, one which they still use. The other two were stored and used for spares. Built originally in 1983, we took the best one painstakingly restored it, added another 8 channels as the original only had 24 channels.
Our recent film and TV work includes two full-length feature films, Let Me Go and Carmilla, as well as regular work for Fifth Gear, Red Bull Media and the BBC. We are equally at home recording, mixing and editing corporate and TV ads, audio books and podcasts. On the technical side we are used to working in stereo or surround sound to picture.
As a multi network interface and multi algorithm audio gateway codec, the CENTUARI II supports almost any encoding format, such as G.711, G.722, Layer 2, Layer 3 (mp3), mp3PRO, Linear, MPEG 2/4 AAC, MPEG-4 AAC HE, apt-X, Eapt-X, and should handshake with nearly all other codecs. At Evolution Studios we have the best in class, industry standard Web based ISDN alternative.
Reviews (3)
Alex Babic
Alex Babic
Mar 24, 2021
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Best recording facility in Oxford. Nick is one of the best sound engineers I know.
Lisa Fitzgibbon
Lisa Fitzgibbon
Nov 12, 2019
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Highly professional, inspirational studio. I highly recommend Evolution to all pro’s looking for a space to work in.
Mark Elphinstone
Mark Elphinstone
Oct 08, 2018
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Nick and his studio is of the very best. There is a full trident mixing desk just to kick off the very best of audio equipment. Our band have had excellent results recording here.