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 ...

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 ...

Congratulations to all the 2020 Recording Academy / GRAMMYs nominees! We’re pleased to announce that many of the projects recorded, mixed and mastered at Abbey Road have been included within the nominations. From composer Alan Silvestri’s immense score for ‘Avengers: Endgame’ recorded in Studio One, to our very own Simon Gibson, nominated for his work on ‘The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters’ – read the full list. ...

As we wind down after the excitement of night hacking in Studio Two culminated by Chagall's first time performance with #LISAimmersive, we are once again congratulating all the winners from the #AbbeyRoadRed Hackathon ...

Our final panellist for Abbey Road Studios’ Songwriting Masterclass at BBC Music Introducing Live on 31 October is Irish singer-songwriter and rapper Maverick Sabre. Find out more about the artist and what to expect from the masterclass that includes Novelist and Rachel ...

Our second panellist for Abbey Road Studios’ Songwriting Masterclass at BBC Music Introducing Live is Mercury Prize nominee and Grime artist Novelist. Once dubbed ‘The Poster Boy of Grime’, Novelist burst onto the UK music scene with his cutting lyricism and impeccable production. Find out more about Novelist and what to expect from the masterclass that includes Maverick Sabre and Rachel ...

Simon Gibson has 30 years experience at Abbey Road, mastering both stereo and 5.1 surround projects that span from rock and pop to symphonic orchestral soundtracks. We go inside Simon’s mastering suite as he takes us through his 5.1 surround sound set-up, the equipment and plug-ins he uses and an insight into his mastering process featuring Carly Paoli’s ‘Liberty’, taken from her album ‘Live at Cadogan ...