Abbey Road Red alumnus LifeScore Music has announced a new milestone today in a partnership with Yoto, an award-winning audio platform for kids which can use physical cards with contact-less communication technology to listen to audiobooks, music, sound effects and more. Their latest collection was created using music composed by LifeScore Co-Founder Philip Sheppard and recorded in various sessions at Abbey Road. These recordings were then reinterpreted by Philip and the LifeScore team using their Cellular Composition™ technology, which uses artificial intelligence to compose infinite new pieces of music from the source material. ...

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 ...

Abbey Road Red is proud to share the news that five of our alumni are listed in Busines Cloud’s inaugural top 130 list of media tech innovators in the UK. It is a testament to their brilliant teams and technologies to be featured at this voting stage and we are hoping some or all will make it through to the top ...

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. ...

In this, the second of a three part series, we give the floor to our Head of Audio Products, founder of the Abbey Road Spatial Audio Forum and board member at Abbey Road Red, Mirek Stiles, to give you a detailed overview of how he set up the microphones for the spatial audio aspects of the ...

Abbey Road Red’s Innovation Manager, Karim Fanous, introduces a special video and the first of a three-part blog series on spatial audio featuring LifeScore and Abbey Road’s Head of Audio Products and the founder of the Abbey Road Spatial Audio Forum, Mirek ...

Introducing the long-awaited Abbey Road / Waves Audio RS124 Compressor plugin. Few pieces of gear define music history as the RS124 does. The custom-built compressors were the secret weapon of Abbey Road engineers during the ‘60s. The RS124 was an extensive in-house modification of the American Altec 436B compressor, where it’s believed only 25 units were ever created, and each serial number was hand-built by Abbey Road/EMI technical legends Bill Livy, Len Page and Mike ...

Here at Red, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the history of background music, uncover its origins just over 100 years ago and milestones in its evolution through to the present ...

Making critical mix decisions on the centre content of a stereo image is amongst the hardest things to achieve when working with headphones. Our Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles, explains why this is so important and how the Waves Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin can ...