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Meet the Masters: interview with Abbey Road engineer Oli Morgan | Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road engineer Oli Morgan on what it’s like to work at Abbey Road and why online mastering is so ...

Meet the Masters: Abbey Road Engineer Alex Wharton

Abbey Road engineer Alex Wharton talks us through his life in music and explains how all musicians can take advantage of online ...

Why Trust is Vital in the Mastering Process

If you’ve poured everything you have into creating a piece of music that you care passionately about, it can be incredibly tough to get it over the finishing ...

Production Hub: How Does Spatial Audio Work Inside a Game Engine?

How does spatial audio work inside a game engine? Head of Audio Products Mirek Stiles is back with another Production Hub video, this time sharing how you can create and explore spatial audio in the cross-platform game engine ...

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. ...

8th December 2021

How To Carve Your Career As A Producer Or Engineer? What We Learnt from Abbey Road Institute's Amplify Panel Talk

How can you start to carve your career as a producer or engineer? As part of our 90th-anniversary #Amplify event, Abbey Road Institute hosted an award-winning producer and engineer panel, who discussed their different routes into the industry. ...

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! ...

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 ...