Do you ever find your mix sounds great on one section of your track, but overcrowded or muddy on another part once more textures come in? If so, you may want to try using sidechaining. Abbey Road Recordist Matt Jones explains what sidechaining is, how to use it and his tips on how to achieve the best results with it. ...

As a new decade begins, we take a look at some of the up and coming artists we feel you should be paying attention to in 2020. Each artist has a special connection with Abbey Road, having either recorded, performed or mastered ...

Abbey Road's Technical Engineer, Ian Taylor, takes us through the central nervous system of each of our studios' control and live rooms, and the latest patching underway for Room Seven's TG Transfer ...

As 2019 draws to a close, we asked the Abbey Road team to look back and reflect on what has been a particularly phenomenal and poignant year for the studios. From their favourite projects to work on, stand-out gigs and best albums of the year - find out more about Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles, Jack Franklin, Judith Nicholas and Sam ...

From two days of intense recording and mixing in The Gatehouse and one morning of mastering in Room Five came the alternative festive single All I Want For Christmas Is A Work Email. Inspired by Rebecca's passion of writing sad Christmas songs, she then premiered the track on Jo Whiley's BBC Radio Two show last Thursday (5 ...

Introducing the latest addition to the Abbey Road family - the Mellotron M300! Originally built circa 1968, the mellotron has been kindly donated to us by the family of the late Tom Doncourt and fully refurbished by the original manufacturers Streetly Electronics. The M300 arrived replete with a bronze plaque dedication to Tom and a photo of Tom on the zebra crossing only several years ago. Discover more about the rare instrument that finds itself back at Abbey ...

Lose yourself in the incredible moments from the Abbey Road Red Hackathon 2019, showcasing the most unexpected collaborations and innovative performances, beautifully accompanied by Chagall's ‘Dallas’ and Halina Rice's ‘Reaction ...

Modelled directly from time-proven saturation chains at Abbey Road, it provides inspiring saturation and distortion unlike any other device. The plugin offers two versatile desk distortion flavours: the crunchy tube REDD sound, and the rounded solid-state TG12345 tone. ...

How do you begin writing a song? From the importance of a chorus, to using visual stimulus as a source of inspiration, we recap the main tips, insights and processes that Maverick Sabre, Rachel Furner and Novelist shared to aspiring songwriters and artists during last month’s Abbey Road Studios’ Songwriting Masterclass at BBC Introducing ...