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Abbey Road Rooms: Mastering Suite 30 with Frank Arkwright and Miles Showell

Our latest behind-the-scenes room tour sees us step inside Room 30, home to engineers Frank Arkwright and Miles Showell. Frank has worked on music by the likes of Cat Burns, Arcade Fire, New Order, Belle and Sebastian, Johnny Marr, Mogwai, Frank Turner and Buckley and Butler. Miles' credits include music by ABBA, Sam Ryder, Amy Winehouse, The Beatles, The Cure, Iggy Azalea, The Alan Parsons Project and INXS. They are both a part of our online mastering team and are available to master your music to get it sounding as good as it possibly ...

5th January 2023

Abbey Road Rooms: Mastering Suite 13 with Simon Gibson and Andy Walter

The latest in our behind-the-scenes tour sees us step inside Room 13, home to Abbey Road engineers Simon Gibson and Andy Walter. Simon and Andy take us through some of the equipment they use to master tracks from the latest digital tech to analogue gear that has been a part of the Abbey Road mastering process for ...

9th October 2022

Abbey Road Rooms: Mastering Suite 6 with Sean Magee and Oli Morgan – PART TWO

Abbey Road room tour - Part Two: behind the scenes with Oli and Sean. Part two of our behind-the-scenes look at where our Abbey Road engineers Sean and Oli work their magic at our world-famous ...

2nd October 2022

Abbey Road Rooms: Mastering Suite 6 with Sean Magee and Oli Morgan

Abbey Road room tour: behind the scenes with Oli Morgan and Sean Magee. See where our Abbey Road engineer’s Sean and Oli work their magic and discover the tech and equipment used to mix and master music at our world-famous ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Altec 605As #GearThatMadeUs

In this week’s 'Gear That Made Us' we bring you the legendary Altec 605A speakers. Two of which found a home in Studio Two’s control room throughout the ‘60s. On the left was 605A #8 and on the right, 605A #3. Because stereo recording was secondary at the time, the right-hand speaker saw a lot more action than the left as engineers were only monitoring from ...

The Red Chairs #GearThatMadeUs

Around 1960, Abbey Road decided to replace the seating throughout the studios. Old wooden chairs that had been around since our opening in 1931 were finally upgraded to these new red leather models. ...