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7th November 2021

The History of Recorded Music has its roots firmly planted at No. 3 Abbey Road

How an elegant sixteen-room, three-story town house built in 1830 changed the course of music history forever, the ripples of which are still unquestionably strong, inspiring and infectious. ...

28th January 2021

How To Set Up A Spatial Audio Session? - Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles & Red’s Alumnus LifeScore

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 ...

19th January 2021

Spatial Audio at Abbey Road Studios with Red Alumnus LifeScore

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 ...

22nd October 2020

Announcing A New Partnership with Spitfire Audio

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. ...

Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles Explores The Tempest 3D Audio Tech for Sony's PS5

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 ...

Head of Audio Products Mirek Stiles Leads First Virtual Abbey Road Spatial Audio Forum

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 ...

The Historic Re-Opening of Abbey Road Studios

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. ...

The History of Film Recording at Abbey Road Studios | As Told By Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles | Part Two

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 ...

25th April 2020

8D Audio – The New Revolution In Sound? | Abbey Road's Mirek Stiles Explores

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