Est. 1991 — Path of Condie, Perthshire
TPOT — TPot Recording Studios: a residential recording studio in Path of Condie, Perthshire, Scotland. Albums recorded, mixed and mastered by producer Robin Wynn Evans on a vintage Raindirk analogue console since 1991.
A storied residential recording studio with an epic view.
Production from a man who made the stories.
A living engine-room for 100s of artists for over 35 years.
01 / The Producer
Robin Wynn Evans learned the desk in London — then found a better room.
SwanyardLondon · Tape Operator
His way in was the building itself — at 19, Robin took a job on the Swanyard construction site with one aim: get noticed, get through the door. When the legendary studios opened, he was the one person who knew where every cable ran. The tape-op chair was his. Spandau Ballet, Heaven 17, The Damned and the Blow Monkeys were making records down the hall — and Robin pulled assistant-engineer duty on Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls.
PowerplantLondon · Engineer & Producer
Then Powerplant, once part of Battery Studios — every side of the glass at once: engineering, mixing, producing, mastering. Credits alongside Dodgy, David Gilmour, the Manic Street Preachers and Sam Brown.
1991Path of Condie
Robin and Sam Brown bought an old schoolhouse high in the Ochil Hills — the most remote, most restful room they could find for music to thrive in. They called it TPot Recording Studios. Thirty-plus years later, it's still the room.
The View's number-one debut — born and managed here.
Dundee's The View came up the road as a hungry, unsigned four-piece from a housing estate and left with the bones of one of Scotland's best-loved records. Hats Off to the Buskers shot straight to the top of the UK Albums Chart on 22 January 2007, went platinum, earned a Mercury Prize nomination, and launched Kyle Falconer's Dundee drawl and the band's full-tilt guitar attack into the mainstream.
Pete Doherty followed. Then Glastonbury and the Mercury Awards. That's how it tends to go when the room and the producer are right.
Selected credits / back catalogue
02 / The Room
Two windows onto nothing for miles.
The live room was the school's old assembly hall — high ceilings, daylight, wood. Its windows look straight down a glacial glen with a burn at the foot of it. The nearest neighbour is a long way off — which is exactly what Robin and Sam came here for.
What's in it
A 1970s Raindirk desk and a wall of analogue outboard. Recorded off the floor, everyone playing at once — the way records used to get made, because it still works.
Full equipment list
Recording
- Large high-ceiling live room
- Glass-doored booth
- Large acoustically treated control room
A/D Convertor
- UAD Apollo 16
- UAD Apollo X8P
- Mac Studio M4
Software
- Pro Tools Studio 2026
- Selected UAD plugins
Console
- Raindirk Series 3
- 24 mic/line inputs
- 8 groups
- 12 echo returns
- Full GPO patch bay
Instruments
- Yamaha Conservatory Piano, c. 1974
- Fender Rhodes 73
- Jennings Triple Manual Organ
- Farfisa Organ
Outboard
- Urei 1176LN silver-faced
- Valley People Gain Brain compressor / limiters ×2
- Valley People Keepex gates ×2
- Yamaha GC2020 stereo comp / limiter
- Alesis 3630 compressor
- Aphex Aural Exciter Type B
- Roland SDE2500 digital delay
- Drawmer DS201 dual gate
- Frontline dual drum synthesiser ×2
- Alesis CLX440 stereo compressor / limiter
- DBX 286s
Microphones — Condensers
- AKG C12
- Neumann KM184 ×2
- Neumann U87
- Neumann TLM193 ×2
- AKG 414 EB
- AKG C214 stereo pair
- Audio Technica ATM33a
- Rode NT1
- AKG C1000c ×2
- Sontronics ribbon mic
Microphones — Dynamics
- Shure Beta 57 ×3
- Shure SM57 ×8
- Shure Beta 58 ×3
- Shure SM58 ×5
- Sennheiser 421 ×2
- AKG D12
Headphones
- Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro ×7 pairs
- Beyerdynamic DT100 ×7 pairs
- Studiospares HAR4 4-channel headphone amplifier
Monitoring
- HEDD Type 30 MK2
- Genelec 8030A pair
- Genelec 7050B active subwoofer
- Turbosound TXP151 ×6 PA (for rehearsing)
Backline
- Fender Ultra Chorus guitar amp
- Vox T60 bass amp
- Peavey MX VTX Series guitar amp
- Blackheart 3 W / 5 W valve guitar amp
Miscellaneous
- Percussion box of tricks — shakers, tambourines and more
- Studio drum kit
- Vox bass amp
- Fender and Peavey guitar amps
03 / The Hub
Hundreds of artists. One extended family.
Everyone who comes gets the same TPot — full attention, no hierarchy, a number-one band and a first record treated exactly alike. Most don't really leave. Connections made here turn into collaborations, side projects and whole new bands.
Through the doors
Full client list
- Good Guy Hank
- Laura Targett
- Andrew Bond with Mike McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly and Eddie Sheehan
- Lizabett Russo
- Tim Edey
- Sam Brown
- Dodgy
- Falasgair
- Jacob Jolliffe
- My Pet Rocket
- Harry Bird
- Graeme Stephen, Fraser Campbell and Roberto Cassani
- Albi Taylor
- Slyder Smith
- Sociograss
- Adam Holmes
- Triptic — Greg Lawson, Mario Caribe, Phil Alexander
- Sorrel Nation
- Noise Club
- Ross Ainslie
- Mike Warren
- Mohan Evans
- TwinsTown
- Nick Shane
- Peter Quinn
- Papa Hotel
- Emerald Sunday
- The Foo Birds
- The View
- The Law
- AMWWF
- RAAR
- Heavy Duty Box Company
- Jon Mackenzie
- Michael Rattery
- The Curtains
- Beatnik Prestige
- Craig Jeffery
- Dave
- Luva-Anna
- Rush Hour Soul
- Than
- The Ruffness
- The Cuts
- The Feral Children
- The Getdowns
- The True Gents
- Bob Hilary
- Emmelle
- Calum Campbell
- Silibil and Brains
- The Creeping Ivies
- The Age
- The Sky Mangle
- Break The Butterfly
- Charlotte Brimmer
- The Niblicks
- Charlie McKerron
- Barry Wobble
- Heidrum
- Ohio State
- Sienna
- The Red Rags
- Tarneybackle
- Fraser Ross
- Paul Cotton
- The Black Charge
- The Holy Ghosts
- Lunaseed
- Off The Radar
- Clay Machine Gun
- MRAS
- Gob
- Ronnie Parry
- Vaarstract 66
- Bohemian Monk Machine
- Crabs
- Brother Sea
- Phil Lee
- Tommy Womack
- Geneva
- Barry Nisbett
- Ed Muirhead
- MASS
- Aaron Clark
- The Twistettes
- Deadbolt
- Stephanie Fraser
- Lauren Jackson
- Tunna
- Indian Bone
Wire + Wool
Seven-piece Dundee powerhouse. Bluegrass bones, Celtic soul, punk energy.
Wire + Wool came to TPot with three fiddles, mandolin, banjo, double bass and boundless energy — the kind of band that fills a room just walking in. Formed out of weekly sessions at the George Orwell pub in Dundee, they recorded their debut album here with Robin, released in 2016 to rave reviews from the folk and Americana press. "Full on bluegrass punk and roots revival heaven."
Celtic Connections. Southern Fried Festival. Supported The Saw Doctors and The Waterboys. La Roche Festival in the Alps. Wire + Wool are one of the biggest draws on the UK folk circuit.
Silibil N' Brains
Two Scots. Fake Californian accents. A £250,000 Sony deal. The music industry's most outrageous con — and the music was made here.
Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd — from Dundee, not San Jacinto — came to TPot and made their debut record here with Robin producing and engineering. The Eat Your Brains EP (2013) and the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels LP were both recorded at TPot. The splatter-horror video for "Eat Your Brains" was shot right here in the Perthshire hills — an unofficial, zombie-infested homage filmed in the glen outside.
Their extraordinary story — two Scottish rappers who faked American identities, got signed to Sony, headlined tours, and hung out with Madonna and Green Day before the whole house of cards fell — became The Great Hip Hop Hoax, a BAFTA-nominated documentary by Jeanie Finlay.
Ross Ainslie
& The Sanctuary Band
Perthshire-born. Scotland's most sought-after piper.
Ross Ainslie was born in Perthshire in 1983, mentored by pipe legend Gordon Duncan, and is now described by The Scotsman as Scotland's most sought-after piper. He lectures at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, performs as soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo. He is also the man who played bagpipes for Snoop Dogg on arrival at Glasgow Airport.
The Sanctuary Band is the live collective behind his 2017 album Sanctuary — the first in a trilogy exploring themes of personal healing, blending Highland pipes, smallpipes, whistles and world music into something ancient and entirely now. Fellow TPot regular Tim Edey is among his closest collaborators.
Tim Edey
Double BBC Folk Award winner. One of folk music's great multi-instrumentalists.
Tim Edey is one of the most sought-after musicians in Celtic and contemporary folk — guitar, melodeon, piano, tin whistle, voice. He grew up in Kent, is now based in Perthshire a few miles from TPot, and has toured the world with The Chieftains, Christy Moore, Sharon Shannon, Ross Ainslie, Capercaillie and many more.
In 2012 he won both categories in which he was nominated at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards — Best Musician, and Best Duo (with harmonica player Brendan Power). In 2020 he won Musician of the Year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. Mike Harding at BBC Radio called him "one of the world's greatest melodeon players."
On 9 April 2022 he came into TPot and recorded an entire live album off the floor in a single day. It was released on Bandcamp a month later.
"A ferocious passion and a beautiful tenderness, sensitivity, respect, understanding & love perpetually shines out through the music of virtuoso musician Tim Edey."
— Sharon Shannon
Mohan Evans
Raised at TPot. Soul-stirring singer-songwriter.
Mo is Robin and Sam's son — and grew up in this building. Path of Condie had no TV signal. What it had was every instrument he could reach, a vintage console to tinker with, and a succession of extraordinary musicians coming through the door. He taught himself drums, guitar, piano and production the way people do when music is simply the air in the room.
His mother is Sam Brown, the singer behind the worldwide hit Stop and daughter of rock 'n' roll legend Joe Brown. Mo inherited the lot: the instinct, the voice, the feel. He writes and produces everything himself, and the songs are as epic and soul-stirring as you'd expect from someone for whom TPot was childhood.
His 2023 single River Walk has crossed 298,000 streams on Spotify. The Paint Us A Dream EP followed the same year.
TPot TV / Sessions & Live
What happens when the camera rolls.
Every session at TPot is a recording — and some become films. TPot TV is the YouTube channel: live performances captured in the room, Roundhouse sets, in-studio sessions and fragments of what gets made in Perthshire.
The beginning.
Shot through the control room window on a rain-soaked Perthshire afternoon — this is The View at TPot at the very start of their journey. Everything that came after started here.
Archive
The View
Face for the Radio — at TPot
24:43
Langan Band
TPot TV Session
4:47
Sorrel Nation
Dead Man's Road — Roundhouse Session
TPot Session
Watch on YouTube
SoundCloud
Years of sessions, live recordings, demos and archive material — much of it never released anywhere else. This is where the room lives between albums.
04 / The Terms
Three ways to make a record.
The Sessions
Five days recording. You leave with the album tracked — mixing handled elsewhere.
The Whole Record
Five days recording, then mixed and mastered by Robin. You leave with a finished record.
The Day
One day at the desk. For a single, overdubs, or anything that doesn't need a week.
Every record is different — rates are quoted on application. Tell Robin what you're making and he'll price it.
Stay
The whole place is yours.
A secret bookcase separates the studio from the accommodation. Step through it and you're inside a lovingly restored Victorian schoolhouse — original features, real character, and a four-person outdoor hot tub with an unbroken view down the glen. In winter, on clear nights, the aurora borealis visits. You live, write and record in the same building. This is how records get made properly.
The house sleeps up to eight artists: private bedrooms, full kitchen, communal living space. Included in both residential packages at no extra cost — rated five stars on Airbnb.
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee airports are all within an hour's drive. Pick-up and drop-off from any of the three can be arranged — just ask when you book.
Flying from London, Manchester, Liverpool or Birmingham? There are direct flights to Edinburgh and Glasgow daily. If you can fly, you can get here.
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05 / Booking
Make a
record here.
Dates go fast and the studio is small. Tell Robin what you're recording.
Thanks — Robin will get back to you by email.
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