We are deeply saddened to hear that Abbey Road’s beloved Jack Adams has passed away. Jack was an integral part of the Abbey Road family and will be fondly remembered for his immense warmth and remarkable contribution to music. His mastering can be heard on records from David Bowie, Elvis Presley and Lou Reed to Depeche Mode, Groove Armada and Jean Michel Jarre to name but a few. ...

The 50th anniversary of the iconic album, 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band', will be commemorated this year with the release of a variety of new editions, including a super-deluxe box set on eight discs featuring 159 newly mixed and mastered outtakes, demos, jams and more. The set, also available on 2 CDs and 2 LPs, arrives today. ...

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, attended sessions for our mastering engineers are still not permitted. So how can we allow artists and bands to be part of the final process in the production chain? Well, when Chilean band Bintage got in touch with our mastering engineer Oli Morgan looking to stem-master their latest LP, Oli found an innovative solution thanks to our newly acquired start-up company, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Half-speed vinyl masters of Dire Straits’ immortal 1985 album ‘Brothers In Arms’, and Mark Knopfler’s soundtrack to 1983 film ‘Local Hero’ have been announced for release on 19 March. Remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road, ‘Brothers in Arms’ is the eighth biggest selling album of all time in the UK having sold over four million copies, and features hits such as ‘Money For Nothing’, ‘Walk Of Life’, ‘So Far Away’, ‘Brothers In Arms’ and ‘Your Latest Trick’. Mark Knopfler’s first film soundtrack for Bill Forsyth’s film ‘Local Hero’, is also being reissued as a half-speed mastered version on the same day. ...

This year marks 20 years since the release of The National's self-titled debut album. In celebration of the anniversary, the band have released a reissue of the record, alongside reissues of two more pieces of their early catalogue, 2003's ‘Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers’ and 2004's ‘Cherry Tree’ EP. The collection has been remastered at Abbey Road by our own Christian Wright, which “helps make these much-loved records sound as vital as ever”. ...

Goat Girl's second album 'On All Fours' sees the band veer away from the confrontational lyricism of their debut & indicates Goat Girl’s maturing perspectives in discussing the world's injustices and social prejudices, using the music to explore global, humanitarian, environmental and mindful wellbeing. ...

Interested to find out more on stem mastering and the benefits it can offer over stereo mastering? At the end of last year, Abbey Road mastering engineer, Oli Morgan, explained all in his live stem mastering masterclass and Q&A, presented in conjunction with Andrew Mackay and the studios’ mastering partner for India, Bohemia ...