Bring Abbey Road’s Legendary Sound to Your Productions
Since stereo was patented at Abbey Road in 1933, Abbey Road Studios have introduced multiple innovations in recording technology and defined the art of music production.
The studios’ impressive history includes celebrated work by The Beatles, Frank Ocean, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Kate Bush, Lady Gaga, Oasis, Sam Smith, Amy Winehouse, Adele, and countless more, as well as scores to films from Star Wars movies and Raiders of the Lost Arc to The Lord of the Rings, Black Panther, Tar, and Avengers: Endgame.
The Abbey Road Collection faithfully recreates the studio’s legendary raw signal path—tape, preamps, consoles, compressors, vocal effects, reverbs, saturation, microphones, all the way to the studios’ vinyl cutting gear and complete mastering chain.
Developed with Abbey Road Studios, with painstaking attention to detail and accuracy, this outstanding collection isn’t a just a tribute to musical history—it brings unique sonic edge to today’s productions.
- Created closely with Abbey Road Studios for full authenticity
- Precise modeling of ultra-rare gear not available anywhere else
- Mix with the J37 tape machine used on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s
- Master with Abbey Road’s complete mastering chain
- Experience the vintage console used on The Dark Side of the Moon
- Wrap your vocals in the ambience of classic reverb chambers & plates
- Add rare compression, saturation, and vocal doubling effects
- Capture the warm sound of vinyl production and playback
12 Plugins Included
- Abbey Road Chambers
- Abbey Road EMI TG12345 Channel
- Abbey Road J37 Tape
- Abbey Road King’s Microphones
- Abbey Road REDD Consoles
- Abbey Road Reel ADT
- Abbey Road Reverb Plates
- Abbey Road RS124 Compressor
- Abbey Road RS56 Passive EQ
- Abbey Road Saturator
- Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain
- Abbey Road Vinyl
Abbey Road’s Tape. Preamps. Vocal Effects. Reverbs. Consoles. Vinyl Effects. Mastering Gear. The Complete Rare Signal Path—in Your DAW
- The Power of Authentic Analog Tape
The J37 tape machine was the centerpiece of Abbey Road’s recording process. Detailed modeling has captured its distinctive warmth and character, as well as different tape formulations, speeds, and bias settings.
- The Complete Abbey Road Mastering Chain
The modular TG Mastering Chain has been an integral part of Abbey Road’s mastering suites since the 70s. From Pink Floyd to Nirvana to Ed Sheeran, this has been the secret ingredient that adds coherence and authority to any mix.
- Legendary Reverbs: Chambers to Plates
Abbey Road’s plate and chamber reverbs are instantly recognizable for their depth and warmth, as well as for their haunting qualities on classic vocal performances—most famously John Lennon’s vocal on the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” You get all these reverb flavors in the Abbey Road Collection.
- Ultra-Rare Gear: Saturation, Compression and EQ
Abbey Road were known to develop their own gear throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s. These units were crucial in fashioning the Abbey Road sound. The ultra-rare Abbey Road Saturator, RS124 Compressor and RS56 Passive EQ plugins add their distinctive wizardry to the signal chain.
- ADT: The Vocal Effect Created for John Lennon
The Abbey Road Collection includes Reel ADT—a precise emulation the tape-based vocal doubling effect, originally invented to allow John Lennon to double-track his vocals automatically. Create richer, thicker, more textured vocal takes with this faithful modeling of the immediately recognizable effect.
- The Vinyl Time Machine
Bring back the sound of yesterday—and today: this precise model of Abbey Road’s vinyl cutting and playback gear gives your music the vintage warmth of vinyl records, played on classic turntables, using classic styluses.
- Classic Console Channel Strips
From the tube-powered REDD desks that recorded the Beatles in the 1960s, to the solid-state TG12345 that powered the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Abbey Road’s consoles have seen it all. Their carefully curated EQ controls, and brilliant dynamics processing, were key to forging the sound of rock and pop’s greatest classics.
来自SMPiGGY工作室的评价:
Waves的Abbey Road合集, 是Waves合集中非常有收藏价值的一套插件. 这其中, EMI TG12410是我之前单独就购买了的, 是非常有实用价值的总线及母带套件. 而这次升级到全套的合集, 主要是为了另外几个特色插件.
J37磁带机
这也是著名磁带机品牌Studer在1964年发布的第一款多轨磁带机, 也在Abbey Road服役多年, 如果希望得到最古早的磁带韵味, J37能比A800给得更多.
RS124
这款压缩器是在Abbey Road发现Altec 436Bs的各种缺陷后, 进行的独家订制并从未发售. 在一些厂牌如Chandler得到了复刻权后, 他们制作的RS124也出现在了各大工作室和名曲中, 如Beyonce的”Lemonade”(使用了RS124压缩, Tony Maserati混音), Maroon 5的”Red Pill Blues”(专辑中使用了RS124压缩器及REDD.47话放), Red Hot Chili Peppers的”Return of the Dream Canteen”和”Unlimited Love”两张专辑(均使用了RS124压缩, REDD.47话放, 及TG12345总线压缩等, 由Ryan Hewitt混音)
EMI TG12345
这是个稍微老于TG12410的通道条插件, 但它是最具备Abbey Road风格的插件, 因为它参与了七张非常具有影响力的专辑制作, 其中包括披头士的”艾比路”和平克弗洛伊德的”月暗面”
Chambers和Plates
混响室和板式混响. 这两个混响插件, 也是捕捉了Abbey Road Studios空间特质的为数不多的插件之二.
其它几款插件也各有特点, 比如Reel ADT, 来源于当时Abbey Road传奇技术工程师Ken Townsend为列侬和披头士录音的需求所专门开发的Artifical Double Tracking(人工双轨录音技术), 这种在源声前后漂移的叠声技术, 可以带来非常奇妙的听觉感受. 再比如Vinyl刻盘机, 它虽然和磁带机类似, 但又能带来更不稳定的动荡感, 如果希望为自己的音乐添加复古的黑胶感, 它会很有帮助.
如果你有兴趣, 其实Youtube频道”Produce Like A Pro”的主持人Warren Huart刚刚在2023年7月份制作了一期专题节目 – The Abbey Road Story – A History Of Recording Innovation(艾比路往事 – 一段创造性录音的历史), 里面详细的讲述了EMI的前身, 购置Abbey Road, 招募The Beatles和各种创意性录音以至于改写音频历史的故事. 当然, 包含了我所提到的这套音频插件合集中的一切.
以上都是影片中的截图, 这部影片几乎巨细无遗的展现了艾比路最辉煌的全程.
不论是不是Beatles或Floyd的歌迷, 哪怕从音频技术学习的角度出发, 这一套复刻了影响世界流行音乐走向的Abbey Road设备的合集, 都值得每个音乐人收藏及研究.
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