Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the precious and fetishized sound of Abbey Road Studios is that it relies to some extent on various bits of home-made, one-of-a-kind equipment that appear to the untrained eye. , as it may be otherwise. House in a quiet corner of the set doctor who
“The first thing I asked myself when Bowers and Wilkins approached us about Studio Mode was, how do we make it authentic?”, Mirek Stiles, head of audio products at Abbey Road Studios, tells Wired. “Abbey Road and its parent company EMI manufactured their own compressors, suppressors, and the like, especially during the 1950s and 60s, so how do we capture that sound?”
Which means that not only did Bowers & Wilkins and Abbey Road Studios find themselves trying to capture the “sonic fingerprint” of a physical room and import it into the digital domain, but they also found themselves creating a unique, a – also tried to replicate the effects of of spreaders, compounders, and other Heath Robinson-esque studio equipment. The kind of equipment at Abbey Road Studios is the stuff of pro recording legend—so much so that when one of these masterpieces becomes available, interest runs deep, and The speech is wild.
Despite the obvious and considerable challenges presented in bringing the Abbey Road Studio mod to market, Mirek seems vaguely pleased with the results. “A car cabin is such a small and unassuming environment. But I already had some tools that I thought could help — and what’s important for an authentic sound is the recording equipment in the studio and the techniques that make the recording. Engineers use. Once the studio sound is mapped to a physical sense, many experiments result in a reliable formulation.”
I’ve heard the Abbey Road Studio mod in action, and frankly there’s no arguing with its effectiveness. A colorful and immersive user interface, almost reminiscent of a screen Garage bandA Volvo EX90 allows the owner to dial between “vintage” and “modern” studio sound via a 180-degree horizontal plane, while vertical adjustment between the studio room and control room is also available. The user can select a position on either of these two axes to achieve the sound they are most happy with and enjoy a visual display that rivals any other automotive in-car audio experience. Feels ahead of
