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20th October 2021

Abbey Road Amplify: Sound on Sound Presents The Listening Service

Calling all artists, producers and composers! Abbey Road engineers John Barrett, Lewis Jones and Paul Pritchard have joined forces with Sam Inglis, Editor of Sound On Sound magazine, to analyse your music as part of Abbey Road Amplify! ...

19th October 2021

Abbey Road Amplify: Abbie McCarthy in conversation with Jammer

The line-up continues to grow for our Amplify 90th anniversary festival as we’re delighted to be welcoming BBC Radio 1’s Abbie McCarthy as she hosts an intimate conversation with one of the true pioneers of the grime scene, Jammer.Abbie will sit down with Jammer in Studio One to discuss his musical journey so far; how he started, what inspires him and his biggest lessons ...

7th October 2021

How You Can Fix Flat Sounding Drum Overheads #ProductionHub

Drum overhead recordings are sometimes poorly recorded and can lack the excitement, energy and brightness to drive a mix forward. However, they can be easy to fix with the right processing techniques! On our #ProductionHub, we look at how you can create exuberant overheads for your mix using transient shapers, EQ, reverb, and saturation plugins from Waves Audio and Abbey ...

28th September 2021

War Child UK and Abbey Road Studios announce ‘Day of the Girl’ music industry event

Announced today! We’re thrilled to be teaming up with War Child UK for our exclusive music industry day in celebration of ‘Day of the Girl’ – a new initiative from War Child UK. Hosted in partnership with our Equalise program, which is designed to inspire and empower underrepresented groups to pursue a career in music production, the event will take place in the iconic Studio Two on 11 October. ...

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22nd August 2021

Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 with Ginger Baker at Abbey Road Studios – The Story Behind The Records with Jeff Jarratt

Fifty years since he released his stunning Afrobeat debut, 'Fela Fela Fela', Fela Kuti remains a cultural and political icon around the world. It is well documented that Fela recorded three albums at Abbey Road Studios, with two in particular recorded over the space of two days with his band the Africa ’70 and Cream - Band's Ginger Baker. Former Abbey Road producer Jeff Jarratt, who worked on both these sessions alongside Tony Clark, John Kurlander and John Leckie, shares his account of how the legendary records, 'Afrodisiac''and 'Live!'' were recorded over a weekend in Studio ...

20th August 2021

Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of Frank Ocean's 'Blond'

Four years after his ground-breaking debut album ‘Channel Orange’, Frank Ocean introduced his long awaiting fans to ...

16th August 2021

BBC Introducing X Abbey Road Studios - Olivia Nelson

Chosen by Radio 1Xtra’s DJ Target for BBC Music Introducing, Olivia Nelson was given the opportunity to record, mix and master two tracks at Abbey Road across three days. Watch Olivia behind-the-scenes in our mini-documentary. ...

12th August 2021

Mastering with Abbey Road's Simon Gibson

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 ...

What is Half-Speed Mastering? with Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios

Ever wondered how a record is cut-to-vinyl at half-speed? Step inside award-winning mastering engineer Miles Showell’s mastering suite at Abbey Road Studios as he takes you through the process and explains more about the “holy grail of vinyl cutting” - half-speed mastering. ...