MASTERING

MASTERING

 
Abbey Road has been at the forefront of mastering for decades, in both technology and expertise. We specialise in finding those final touches of magic that can make a record even more moving and captivating. Maybe that’s using a custom-built EMI TG12410 mastering console from the ‘70s, or perhaps it’s the plugins in our new Dolby Atmos Music Mastering Suite. With a total of six cutting-edge mastering rooms, an unrivalled selection of analogue & digital gear and a growing family of engineers with the best ears in the business, anything is possible.

Our team has worked on hundreds of thousands of tracks. Bestselling albums and blockbuster film scores, obscure underground gems and cult classics. Their experience spans genres, technologies, formats, and iconic eras in music. Now you can work with them side by side here at the studio or connect remotely via our Online Mastering service.
 

What we offer

Attended Mastering

Take an active role in shaping the sound of your master with an attended session at the world’s most iconic studio. Abbey Road's unrivalled combination of award-winning engineers and unique portfolio of vintage and state-of-the-art equipment has seen it become a leader in audio mastering.

Online Mastering

Our Online Mastering service makes the facilities at the world's most famous recording studio available to anyone, anywhere in the world. Online mastering is a convenient, secure and cost-effective way to get your music mastered by one of our world-class engineers.

Stem Mastering

Stem Mastering is a process that offers greater control over the sonic shape and balance of your music.

It allows the engineer to not only shape the overall tonal balance of a track, but also to go even deeper into each component part to help achieve an even better result.

Dolby Atmos Music Mastering

Dolby Atmos is an audio format that allows the creation and delivery of audio beyond the classic stereo, immersing the audience in a realistic 3-dimensional audio experience.

Using our purpose-built Dolby Atmos Music Mastering Suite, we are able to manipulate the location of sound by enabling us to control its direction around the audience; enhancing the clarity, depth and fidelity of the audio.

 

Conservation & Archive

Music should live on forever.

Our specialist Conservation & Archive team are world-leaders in transferring work to secure, future-proof, high resolution formats that stand the test of time. We can digitise a wide range of analogue media, including reel-to-reel magnetic tape, vinyl records, shellac 78s and metal masters as well as digital material such as DASH, Pro-Digi, DAT, U-matic and Exabyte tapes.

Over the years we’ve developed our own process and methods. But we also know that no single project is ever the same; the approach we take is always as unique as the creation that we’re working to protect.
 

Additional Services

 

Mastering Rooms

Room 35

Room 35

 

Mastering Engineers

 

Mastering Partners

To ensure everyone can access our unrivalled mastering service, we work with several trusted partners across the world. If you would like to find out more about working with our mastering partners, simply get in touch using their contact details below.

 

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Abbey Road Studios

3 Abbey Road
London
NW8 9AY
UK

Please note that Abbey Road is a working studio and business and as such, is not open to the general public for visits or tours. For information on vacancies and internships in the UK, please visit the Universal Music website.