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6th August 2022

RS144 Premix Box #GearThatMadeUs

This week’s 'Gear That Made Us' features the EMI RS144 Premix Box. Described by EMI as a 4-way mixer, this unit was established in the early ‘60s as a means of adding more mic inputs to the REDD mixing desks. ...

EMITAPE #GearThatMadeUs

EMI produced magnetic tapes in various formats from the 1950s through to the early 1980s. Each tape box had a unique ID number with corresponding labels found in each studio control room. Once a master tape was completed it would receive an “AR” number and be filed in our tape library. ...

Altec 605As #GearThatMadeUs

In this week’s 'Gear That Made Us' we bring you the legendary Altec 605A speakers. Two of which found a home in Studio Two’s control room throughout the ‘60s. On the left was 605A #8 and on the right, 605A #3. Because stereo recording was secondary at the time, the right-hand speaker saw a lot more action than the left as engineers were only monitoring from ...

BTR 3 #GearThatMadeUs

The BTR 3 is a stereo recorder used from 1959 to around 1970. Unlike many other EMI designs, the BTR 3 was made exclusively for the studios at Abbey Road. Only about two dozen were ever made, and only three are known to survive ...

Introducing OMNIBUS from Audiomovers — A virtual patch bay for your Mac

Audiomovers, now part of the Abbey Road family, is helping music professionals around the globe to stream, listen to, and record high resolution multichannel audio remotely and in real time. They now present their latest software, ...

RS114 Limiter #GearThatMadeUs

Today’s 'Gear That Made Us' is the EMI RS114 Limiter. A mono automatic gain control device developed by former chief engineer Mike Batchelor and used on countless Beatles records. By 1955, EMI had recognised the need for a device to stop - or “limit" - extreme volume peaks, without affecting the volume of the rest of the track. They commissioned the RS98, which was replaced by this RS114 less than a year later. ...

EMI TG12345 #GearThatMadeUs

TG desks were used to record our two most famous albums: The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’. When transistors began to replace valves, EMI was at the forefront, developing these ‘solid-state’ mixing desks. The first of which was installed in Studio Two Control Room over the weekend of 23 November ...

Love Ssega Campaigns For Clean Air By Releasing His New Single, 'Capes For Blue Skies'

The former Clean Bandit frontman is taking a stand for clean air. Following up on his recent art project, Ssega has released 'Capes For Blue Skies' to continue raising awareness on pollution in the ...

Studio Two Quilts #GearThatMadeUs

One of the most distinctive features of Studio Two, these hanging quilts or “sleeping bags”, as they’ve been called, were introduced in 1955 and originally made from a fabric called Cabot’s ...