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This $99 plugin recreates a classic studio technique invented at Abbey Road for The Beatles – and it's free for the next three days

AIR Music Tech has made Tape Double Track available as a free download until December 8

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2025

“Eric said that the only way he’d play on it is if he sounded like the Beatles”: Legendary Abbey Road record producer, Ken Scott, explains how Eric Clapton ended up playing an uncredited solo on a Beatles classic

Scott also reveals the recording technique the team used to make sure Clapton's solo sounded Beatles-esque

Guitar World · Nov 25, 2025

“George Martin came up to me that morning and said, ’Oh, I’ve got a poser for you... I know it’s never been done before, can you do it?“: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

MusicRadar · Jul 12, 2025

"I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn

We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

MusicRadar · Nov 7, 2023

"We take the original image and split it through a double vibrocated sploshing flange with double negative feedback": The Beatles, Les Paul, or Larry Levine? Who really discovered flanging?

Lennon and George Martin are often given the credit, but flanging might well have been around for years before they 'discovered' it

MusicRadar · Jul 26, 2023

The McCartneys and Abbey Road

In her new documentary "If These Walls Could Sing," McCartney takes us into the rooms where Sir Paul created hits

Salon · Dec 16, 2022

Take a deep dive into Abbey Road history

David Hepworth's book, with foreword by Paul McCartney, takes fans from its 1931 EMI beginnings to today

Salon · Oct 8, 2022