While music has always been part of her life, Dion entered artist management relatively recently, but the impressive success of her artist and son, Novelist, has shown that she has a natural talent for this work. Joining the music industry as a manager after previous roles as a key worker, helping homeless women in London, Dion is a mother of four and balances managing a family with managing Novelist. She is a regular guest on Novelist’s popular BBC 1Xtra show and has now branched out with her own show on Balamii radio, spreading positive vibes with her sharp and uplifting ...

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. ...

Hosted by female industry leaders and rising talent, get ready for a week of free online talks, mentor sessions and masterclasses in the lead up to International Women’s Day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Following the launch of our latest plugin with Waves Audio, the RS124, Abbey Road’s Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles, explains the history behind the “holy grail of smooth ...

With platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok incorporating music into their services, aspiring artists and musicians can now distribute you’re their music to these platforms and earn royalties each time your their music is used in content. To get your music on any of these platforms, independent artists need to upload their music via a distribution service. That’s where a service like Spinnup comes in. ...