Abbey Road Studios is thrilled to announce a partnership with Spitfire Audio, which begins with Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations. Together, Abbey Road Studios and Spitfire Audio share a vision of creating a beautiful, vast and varied series of sampled instruments. Our goal is to inspire music makers all over the world with the unique sound of Abbey Road. ...

Last week Sony PlayStation’s lead designer and all-round gaming legend Mark Cerny presented a technical deep dive into the system architecture for the much anticipated Sony PS5, and I have to say the messaging around audio is very exciting indeed (if you are into that sort of ...

Last week, Abbey Road Spatial Audio Forum founder and Head of Audio Products Mirek Stiles hosted the first virtual Spatial Audio Forum. The group which included Stephen Barton - Composer, University of York's Dr. Gavin Kearney and DELTA Soundworks' Ana Monte, to name a few, discussed the future of sound and virtual music ...

After more than 10 weeks, the Abbey Road team is thrilled to return to the famous house in St John’s Wood, to welcome back the creative community for recording and mastering. Re-opening the doors and making history as the first studio session is Decca Records artist Melody Gardot. The world-renowned jazz singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was poised to record with the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Orchestra when the COVID-19 restrictions came into place. With the safety and wellbeing of the Studios team and guests as the top priority, Abbey Road has introduced new operating guidelines that will allow for social distancing and create the safest possible working environment. ...

In the previous instalment of my riveting blog, I introduced the enlightened reader to the curious little back story of how Abbey Road forged an allegiance with Anvil Film and found itself at the centre of the movie scoring universe. I also hinted that some of the film projects to grace the studios would have been enough to make Sir Edward Elgar’s moustache hairs stand on end - well I wasn’t joking. In this chapter we will look a little closer into some of the wonderful, extraordinary, eccentric and sometimes just plain wacky titles recorded at the studios during the primary decade of its new ...

Abbey Road’s Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles, assesses the hype and reality behind so-called ‘8D’ ...

Announcing ‘Abbey Road Asks’, a new partnership with PSNEurope that will see us share thoughts and insights around creativity and the very latest tech trends and production tools. The feature will be published across their print and digital platforms, with contributions from our engineers and experts in digital & tech ...

AI and creativity: what do the artists think? Abbey Road Red, our music tech incubator, continue their artist series with Benoit Carre, the artist behind Skygge + Artificial Intelligence and Musician In Residence at Spotify, who reveals his thoughts on the use of AI within the creation of music. ...

Lose yourself in the incredible moments from the Abbey Road Red Hackathon 2019, showcasing the most unexpected collaborations and innovative performances, beautifully accompanied by Chagall's ‘Dallas’ and Halina Rice's ‘Reaction ...