To kick start our #AbbeyRoadEqualise week, we’re thrilled to be sharing our first Equalise studio session which we ran at the end of last year in Studio Three with Warner artist Hamzaa, Platoon’s Kali Claire, producer Melle Brown and musician, Cynesha Brown. ...

The Presence Box was based on an earlier Abbey Road design from 1955 and re-created as the RS127 in 1962. It was required to add to the available treble frequencies on the EMI recording ...

On 11 February 1991, 30 years ago today, Massive Attack released the record that would come to define them. 'Unfinished Sympathy' was written by Massive Attack’s Daddy G, 3D and Mushroom with vocalist Shara Nelson and producer Jonny Dollar, recorded in the Coach House Studio, with the strings orchestrated by Wil Malone in Studio One and recorded by former Abbey Road chief engineer, Haydn Bendall. ...

Not only are we celebrating 30 years of Massive Attack’s 'Unfinished Sympathy', 10 years ago today, Lady Gaga released the lead single from her second studio album, 'Born This Way'. ...

AKG’s C12 is one of the best-known tube condenser microphones in history. The original CK12 capsule is widely considered to be one of the finest condenser microphone capsules out there. The AKG C12 Capsules were made by hand and were far more intricate than those fitted to equivalent Neumann mics in the 1950s (Neumann U47 etc), incorporating more than 120 individual parts. These are colloquially known as ‘brass’ capsules due to the brass housing, although the coating of the capsule itself is sputtered gold.The microphone requires an external power supply with a remote pattern ...

Join TEDxLondonWomen on Saturday 6 February for a day of TED-style talks from 14 inspiring and thought-provoking speakers. Broadcast live from Abbey Road Studios to you - wherever you are, be part of the TEDx experience live in your living room! ...

Prior to the mid-1950s, automatic gain control devices were not to be found in Abbey Road's equipment collection. So, one of the most obvious improvements made in 1954 was a limiter which the Research Department developed, lead by Mike Batchelor. The RS114 valve limiter meant that artists could record without any restriction on the dynamic peaks and resulted in apparently louder records which permitted the backing to be brought further forward. ...

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 ...