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16th January 2022

Production Hub: How To Get a Punchy Kick Drum with Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles

The kick drum plays a vital part in most genres. Sometimes you have to make it sound aggressive and punchy, other times, wide and fat. Our Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles, takes us through how to give a kick drum more power and definition. From EQ and dynamics to transient design, low-end enhancement and sample augmentation. ...

9th January 2022

Orchestral Arrangements for Pop #ProductionHub

Abbey Road's John Barrett and Lewis Jones demystify the recording process from an engineer's perspective in this brand-new Q&A. Covering everything from technical setup and venue choice, to understanding an artist’s vision even if they have no classical ...

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 ...

23rd September 2021

Top Tips for Adding Depth to a Mix #ProductionHub

Does your mix suffer from a lack of definition? Is it too flat and upfront, or has so much depth that it's an indistinct wash of sound? If so, chances are you’re misusing or overusing reverb. In our latest Production Hub article, we’ll take a look at six vital pointers for working with reverb in your mix, and how the Abbey Road Waves Audio Chambers and Reverb Plates can ...

16th September 2021

Which Compressor Plugin Should I Choose for my Mix? #ProductionHub

Which Compressor Plugin Should I Choose for my Mix? Compression is hugely important when producing and engineering music, both for dynamics control and sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

How To Get A Wider Vocal with Mid/Side EQ | Production Hub

“By keeping the mids and low end centered, you make sure that the mix stays punchy and mono-compatible. This works particularly well with stereo reverbs, delays, backing vocals and anything that is panned wide.” ...

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. ...