The reverberating sounds of Abbey Road’s legendary Studio 2 echo chamber are now at your fingertips, complete with Abbey Road Studios’ long-lost S.T.E.E.D. setup. From beautiful natural chamber reverb to surging delay cascades – the door is finally open.

From beautiful natural chamber reverb to surging delay cascades, the rich sounds of the legendary Abbey Road Studio Two echo chamber are now at your fingertips, complete with Abbey Road’s long-lost S.T.E.E.D. setup.

The Abbey Road Chambers plugin recreates a defining part of the studios’ legendary sonic signature – the echo chamber used by Abbey Road’s pop engineers to create exciting reverbs, delays and other unique spatial effects on countless classic recordings by the Beatles and beyond.

Developed together with Abbey Road Studios, Waves’ Abbey Road Chambers puts you at the controls of the Studio Two echo chamber, complete with the original valve Neumann KM53 microphones and Altec 605 speaker, as used on almost every pop recording done at Abbey Road during the 60’s.

Abbey Road Chambers also gives you an additional set of the original filters going into the chamber – EMI’s RS106 hi/low pass filter and the EMI RS127 Presence EQ – to further sculpt the perfect chamber sound.

Also featured is a complete recreation of Abbey Road Studios’ original S.T.E.E.D. (Send. Tape. Echo. Echo. Delay.) setup – a system designed to extend the chamber’s natural sonic palette into new territories, by splitting the signal and creating a feedback loop from the studio’s REDD console, through a dedicated tape delay, via RS106 and RS127 filters, and then to the chamber and back.

As a bonus, the plugin also includes two additional legendary spaces: Abbey Road’s famed Mirror Room, and the Stone Room from Olympic Studios, London.

Abbey Road Chambers is designed in a modular fashion: You can send your tracks just to the chamber, or you can isolate just the S.T.E.E.D. effect, or you can combine both for the full range of sonic possibilities opened by the original Abbey Road setup.

From natural chamber reverb, to authentic tape delay, to complex hybrid effects – the door to the one-of-a-kind vintage acoustics of the Abbey Road chambers is finally open.

• True-to-life capture of Abbey Road’s legendary Studio Two echo chamber
• Created in collaboration with Abbey Road Studios
• Shape effects from natural chamber reverb, to authentic tape delay, to complex hybrid effects
• Complete modeling of Abbey Road’s original S.T.E.E.D. setup
• Dedicated EMI RS106 and EMI RS127 EQs to further sculpt the chamber effect
• Your choice of additional spaces: Abbey Road’s Mirror Room and Olympic Studios’ Stone Room
• Choose classic or modern speakers, including Abbey Road's original Altec 605
• Choose vintage or modern microphones, including Abbey Road’s original Neumann KM53
• Variable mic and speaker positions
• Artist presets by Dave Pensado, Jacquire King, Guy Massey and many more

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Very, very interesting plug-in. Hi-tech emulation of what was really a fairly lo-tech approach to reverb, allowing hands-on excursion into the workshop where part of modern history took sonic shape. It's very nice, this complement to the EMT Plates plug-in, previously built by Waves. I tried it today, in front of one of three U47 mics I have and wearing my beloved David Clark (aviation-look) monitor headphones. My favourite setup, great for toying away with the new plug-in, now serving as a learning tool in its own right. Amazing. Oh and this brings back a personal memory I have of Abbey Road. Let me put it here. As a youngster in the early 'eighties, from Amsterdam but living in London, I once wandered into the (then still original) Number 2 studio, and spent some time there, alone, sitting down at a piano in the middle of the room. Just as I finished playing some of my own chords while looking around the space, a lady entered. I felt somewhat caught and embarrassed, but then the lady softly asked: "Has the piano been tuned to your liking?" I guess I kind of apologized for my intrusion but we both laughed and all was fine.

 

Last edited: Aug 8, 2018

Nostalgia is for suckers. Move forward and INNOVATE! The Beatles were great in the day but suck NOW!