RECORDING WEEK 2023: Wandering the quiet corridors of Abbey Road Studios is a strangely tranquil experience. Garrisons of Studer J37 Tape Machines solemnly stand guard, while famed artefacts, such as antique REDD recording consoles sit in wait, indifferent to the decades of technological advancement that followed their capturing of popular music’s most foundational moments.
You might be forgiven for thinking you were passing through a museum of a studio whose best days lay in prior decades, but behind the nondescript pine door of Studio Three, the intense business of record production continues in full swing.
