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9th August 2022

Abbey Road Red’s Monthly Round-up – July 2022 Edition

What are the music tech stories you should know about from July? Here’s the fifth instalment of a new series sourced by our innovation arm Abbey Road Red and their research across the music technology and start-up ecosystem. ...

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7th August 2022

2022 Mercury Prize: Get Your Music Mastered by the Engineers Behind this Year’s Nominees

Learn how albums by Yard Act and Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler were mastered at Abbey Road – and how we can do the same for all ...

6th August 2022

RS144 Premix Box #GearThatMadeUs

This week’s 'Gear That Made Us' features the EMI RS144 Premix Box. Described by EMI as a 4-way mixer, this unit was established in the early ‘60s as a means of adding more mic inputs to the REDD mixing desks. ...

4th August 2022

Photographer spotlight: An Interview With DeShaun Craddock

Over the last month we've been profiling some of the talented photographers who participated and had their work shortlisted by our judges, including Rankin, Moses Sumney, Shygirl, Sacha Lecca, Jill Furmanovsky, Dana Scruggs and Simon ...

What’s the Difference Between Mixing and Mastering?

Discover what online mastering and mixing is and what the differences are between these two vital stages of music ...

Parquet Floor #GearThatMadeUs

You may recognise this particular parquet wood flooring from photos inside Studios One, Two and Three from the past 91 years. The same flooring remains today in Studios One and Two, having carried the weight of countless recording giants and helping to create the sound of every piece of music recorded within our walls since ...

Photographer spotlight: An Interview With John Lyons

Over the last month we've been profiling some of the talented photographers who participated and had their work shortlisted by our judges, including Rankin, Moses Sumney, Shygirl, Sacha Lecca, Jill Furmanovsky, Dana Scruggs and Simon ...

AI Mastering vs Online Mastering: What’s the Difference?

Discover what artificial intelligent mastering is and what the differences are between AI mastering and Abbey Road online ...

EMITAPE #GearThatMadeUs

EMI produced magnetic tapes in various formats from the 1950s through to the early 1980s. Each tape box had a unique ID number with corresponding labels found in each studio control room. Once a master tape was completed it would receive an “AR” number and be filed in our tape library. ...