We’re thrilled to announce today that our education arm, Abbey Road Institute, will relocate its flagship school and education programme to London’s Angel Studios this Summer. After 40 years of recording, Angel Studios sadly closed its doors last year. With rumours of the storied location being turned into flats, we will be ensuring the music plays on in the historic ...

Score a sequence from STUDIOCANAL's BAFTA-nominated ‘Saint Maud’! | EXCLUSIVE Competition. We’ve teamed up with our friends over at STUDIOCANAL to bring you an exclusive competition. Download and score a scene from the British psychological horror film ‘Saint Maud’ for the chance to win a personal feedback session with the film’s composer, Adam Janota Bzowski, along with £500 worth of Spitfire Audio vouchers! ...

Composer Max Richter released ‘Voices’ last August, a work where he set readings of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to music. Today he releases the second part of ‘Voices’, which is a purely instrumental work that builds on the musical themes. The music for ‘Voices 2’ was recorded during the same sessions, with the same players as the first, with Max recording additional piano parts during the summer at Abbey Road in Studio One. ...

One of the most famous artists of his time, Paul Robeson was an American bass-baritone singer active from the 1920s through to the 1950s. He lived an extraordinary life, from his incredible musical talent, political accomplishments, linguistic mastery and his performances on stage and screen, not to mention a fleeting yet legendary career as an American football player. Abbey Road’s Cameron Colbeck returns with his ‘Genius of’ series, examining the true greatness of Paul ...

Creating lo-fi music in the digital realm is all about inducing the flavour of analogue imperfections, tape machine modulations and the colourations caused by worn equipment and mechanical artifacts. From adding more wow and tape flutter effects with our Waves Audio J37 plugin, to adding vintage vinyl noise and crackle with the Abbey Road vinyl plugin, here are a few tricks to add analogue imperfections and that warm nostalgic vibe to your ...

In part three of Mirek Stiles’ epic History of Film Scoring at Abbey Road, he turns his attention to the 1990s. Read here as Mirek explores creation of the scores to titles from ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Interview With The Vampire’ to ‘Braveheart’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and the return of the ‘Star Wars’ ...

Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney's 1971 masterpiece ‘RAM’ turns 50 years old this year, and receives the half-speed master treatment from Miles Showell at Abbey Road. The record was also the only McCartney album to be credited to both Paul and his late wife Linda and was recorded over a five-month period from the autumn of 1970 onwards. The LP was started in sessions in New York but created mainly at the couple’s farm in Scotland, and first released by Apple in May ...

In 1968, the introduction of eight-track recording and increasing sonic experimentation by The Beatles and other groundbreaking artists meant that the capabilities of Abbey Road Studios’ REDD .37 and REDD .51 consoles were being stretched. This called for a new desk. The name of the console was TG12345, with the TG being an acronym for The Gramophone Company. Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles delves deeper into the desk, delivering eight insightful facts about the iconic ...

Our Abbey Road Equalise programme is designed to inspire and empower under-represented groups to enter and find their place in music production. To celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility, we've produced a mini documentary filmed during a one-day recording session with a fully Trans*/ Non-Binary / Gender Diverse production team, including Charlie Deakin Davies, Max Blue Churchill, Jesley Faye and artist Andrea Di ...