Recorded a score there just last month. Covid meant social distancing so... strings in One and winds in Two. And it worked. You can always rely on the Abbey Road crew to be at the bleeding edge of creativity and just making things work. Been going there for over thirty years now and still get the shivers down the spine walking through the door.

As a young man in the late 70's, I worked in 2 on a jazz/rock album engineered by Jeff Jarratt. Couldn't believe my luck. Just DI 'd my P bass and it sounded brilliant - and still does! Memories...

By sheer chance and some good luck I got in to "The Beatles At Abbey Road" presentation on either the first or second day back in July 1983. It was the first time the public was allowed into EMI/Abbey Road. Due to major work being done on the control room they decided to put together an audio/video presentation and sell tickets which ran for about 6 weeks. With permission from the Beatles/Apple they were able to use alternate takes for the program. This was the first time this stuff had ever been heard. All of the material would appear on bootlegs and eventually be released on the Anthology series. It was an incredible experience when the lights went down and the presentation started, to hear never before heard Beatles session recordings, in Studio Two, on the EMI Altec 612 monitors (with the Altec 605a drivers). A peak "religious experience", um, in my life. As far as I know, there have been no public events in Abbey Road/Studio Two since then, until just recently, in November 2021.

What an honor to tour such a magical place. The energy in that space must be unreal.

The Beatles Get back was the best 6 hours i've seen in a long time and this is the best cribs i've ever seen. So much history in both the Beatles series and this video. Just love it.

I emailed ahead and tried booking a session on a whim when I was visiting London in 2012. No such luck just getting in for a few hours! Ended up visiting outside and getting a photo at the gate. It's still a dream to record there!

I loved to see him with the thumb on the tape flange. We'd run a Studer 2" 24 track and the Studer A100 1" 2-track at the same time. mark the head (tape) of the song with a white grease pencil to be sure of sync on each pass. Then the guitar solo plays to the 2-track first and we'd thumb flange the 1" machine for manual flanging. Then the 1" machine fed signal to the 2" Studer. circa 1981. Great days. All thru a Neve 8038. Great vid Christian.

MAN! This one was SO much for for an old Beatles nerd like I am. It seems though, the M49 guts were also M50 guts, but that's way to technical for most anyone to notice nor care about. It's really hard to imagine all of that classic gear, even the RS124s were ever taken out of use! Thank you both for making this fabulous tour video.

The closest I got was the gift shop, which was actually fascinating in and of itself. Apparently it used to be the main canteen (lunchroom) and there were pictures of the Beatles & George Martin taking their tea between sessions. There were a few pieces of equipment (a tape machine, etc) and loads of pictures everywhere. I of course wish I could've gone through the door in the back that lead to the building proper but just seeing the studio, the zebra crossing and spending time with the clerks who were so cool and generous with their time. Me and the wife had loved London for years and were walking on air the 3 weeks we were there while the clerks were fascinated that we were from Las Vegas. Great day. I learned basic recording on a Tascam 424 four track and instead of bouncing between 2 four tracks as discussed in the video I 'bounced' the 4 tracks to my DAT machine (flash kit for the mid 90's) and then back to a fresh tape and track(s) on the 424. I use DAW's now but still try and work similarly to the PortaStudio submix days because it does make you commit and sculpt the song in a sensible way, kind of like a painting. Excellent video.

Old place, old gear, all what I like. More of this, please!

Wow - that was super interesting - I loved the Neumann valve facts and the old Redd console and BTR machine - Thanks Mirac and Chris

Amazing! Thanks for the tour!

This was AMAZING!! thank you for the tour!!

Very awesome tour by Mirek, what a comfortable guy to be around. I've seen a ton of studio tours and this was the most well paced, informative and guided one of them all.

Thank you for bringing this series back!!! Plz do more of these!!

Thanks for this all-too-brief tour of "The Holiest of Holies" for music worshippers!

What an amazing feature! I've always wanted a tour of studio two and just get super nerdy. This was out standing! Such a great job.

What a great show! Thank you for this one!

Wonderful walkthrough of Two. An audiophile's dream. So much history. Thanks for giving such a great tour.

Wonderful treat, thanks for the tour Mirek

Christian, this was by FAR my favourite cribs yet. Thanks for all you (and the gang) do!

This has been awesome, thank you!

I fair enjoyed that wee tour, thanks!

I was privileged to play drums in the isolation room in Studio 2, back in February 2017. They told me I was the first to use it! Everything about the experience was an absolute dream. Hope I can come back one day! Thanks for sharing this.

So amazing to have the opportunity to see this classic studio and all its features

Absolutely fascinating, Christian. Thanks so much for sharing this!

A fascinating piece of work sir, I’ve never had the joy of visiting Abbey Road. Many thanks for making this!

Thank you for the tour! :)

Awesome! Great walkthrough! Thanks for sharing.

What a treat! A wonderful video. Great to see part of musical recording history. Thank you

Wonderful. Thanks for the Magical Mystery Tour

I didn't realise this was a recent video, I really did find this interesting, thank you so much for uploading this educational video! I loved it! Very good questions as well Christian!

Absolutely fantastic! Great peek under the venerable hood. Thanks very much! 🙏🏻

Nicely done, Christian. Really enjoyed it.

That was thoroughly enjoyable!

This was awesome, thank you so much Christian and Spitfire! Very informative and well produced, we're extremely lucky to be given such an insight into this piece of music history.

Thanks for the inside look into recording history at Abbey Road. That history shaped the soundscape of the lives of so many of us who grew up with the amazing music recorded at Abbey Road… I feel blessed to have had such an amazing soundtrack to my life. Thanks to all the musicians, technicians, engineers, and tea ladies that made it all possible.

Delightful wonderful and fantastic! Thank you!

Wow, it's totally fantastic to see the inside of this incredible studio. The ultimate moment was when Mirek lifted up the four track and we got to have a look inside. I've never seen anything like it before, and I'm truly in awe at the design and construction of this truly historic machine.

Thank you for doing this. For a certain kind of person, seeing these spaces is a dream that will most likely never be realized. I really got a feel for the studio and the control room. I worked in a very basic studio in the late 80s and studios of this caliber were the dream. I can at least feel like I have experienced a little of the magic. I also appreciated seeing the B&W speakers - I have been a fan of their sound since the first time I heard heard them.

I really enjoy this kind of documentaries!! Amazing job and information!! Love.

This was fantastic thank you so much! Loved all The Beatles gear & Mirek showing the inner workings of it. Such a fascinating tour thru a magical place!

Wow! Simply great! Thank you! Merry Christmas!🎄🌟🎁❄️

Great…loved to see this iconic studio….!

Excellent stuff, I’ve looked at that vintage gear in Beatles books since I was around 8yrs old, (57) this month, so I love getting glimpses of it now and hearing the stories, I’m glad they have hung onto some of it.

I was in this room and upstairs in the control room. I work and design for MPL (Paul’s licensing co) and visited England in 2004. Got to tour the entire studio. One of the most magical days of my life.

A must watch music history lesson! Thank You Christian and Mirek!! Quite engaging!!

Brilliant video, thanks for investigating.

Always so proud of getting to record with my band there... iconic room, and incredible engineers to top it off.

This was awesome, thanks!!!

Fascinating look inside the legendary studio, thanks!

Brilliant. Many thanks.

Videos like this makes me love youTube. Thanks for sharing. I've now seen things I never dreamed I would ever see. Massively interesting!

really enjoyed this video!

This is the mother of all Creative Cribs! I worked there a few times a while back. Very well done, Christian & SA Team and of course Merrick for the encyclopaedic knowledge! Thanks for the extra interesting content.

A great mini-tour, thanks guys. Looking forward to studios 1 and 3!

Wonderful post! Peering into a place that is on my bucket list to record at!!

That was GREAT

What a stunning piece of history we can look at here... Thank you so much to spitfire audio and abbey road teams.... Regards from France 😎🥂

What a treat! Terrific interesting and informative video. Listening to Mirek generously share his knowledge and expertise on the equipment being showed adds greatly to touring this incredible studio. So much awesome equipment in one space ... mind boggling. Have enjoyed a few video visits to Abbey Road, but this one is phenomenal. Thank you.

Recorded Studio One with London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Chorus + Principals - and Wayne Marshall as Jasbo Brown - on the horrid Upright piano which I tuned under his direction. I had conferred with Simon Rattle (Conductor) over the tuning as I felt that a community, like Catfish Row, who couldn't afford to bury their dead could hardly afford the services of a qualified Piano Tuner. This was agreed, so Wayne & I collaborated before every performance in getting that old upright to be suitably out of tune - yet basically at A=440 for the sake of the LPO in the Pit. And this is what happened at Abbey Road for the recording session in 1986. This sound track was used as a backing track for the later dubbing of the Video recording with the original Glyndebourne cast.

I really enjoyed this! Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic, Christian - thanks!

Even the soundtrack of this video is perfectly recorded and processed

Fantastic video! So good, and props to Jon Brion!!

Studio 2 is holy ground. I hope to visit before I die.

This is GREAT, thanks!

Bought this together with Eric’s choir. I now know and understand what hapiness is in it’s purest form. These samples are AMAZING.

What a joy seeing round the studio it always amazes me what great music was created during that golden age in the 1950 -90's without all the technical excess of todays digital use was just pure talent of the artists and engineers in those days

Finally I can see what the area the Beatles looked like where they recorded in. I own two Keeley Abbey Verb Chamber guitar pedals which gives me the Beatles guitar sound. Also my Acoustic lead series G120DSP amp gives me the guitar sound. The mid-delay nails down George Harrison's Les Paul Lucy tone sound.

OMG! I used to have to line up a Studer J37 every morning in 1970! NOT fun. As the preset pots were accessed through the tops of the modules you had to pull out the top two sets to adjust the bottom two first and the replace the top two and adjust them, while crouching down and fumbling the top buttons to get the tape above to spool and play. We used to make our own test tapes as well. But the risk in analogue recording used to give everything that "edge" which today digital has defeated! Happy Days!

This is the greatest "virtual" field trip. Wow what a great deep dive into Studio 2. Brilliant!

I got emotional when the 47 mic came out. Sublime.

Very cool, thanks!

A precious time travel through Abbey Road's history. Thank you for the visit.

Fascinating - more from the other Studios (One and Three) soon please....

It still amazes me that I've been in this room, on my own! It was during a break in a classical recording in studio 1, and I went walkabout.

Awesome series here Christian wow

Yay cribs is back. Hope to see more as well.

The reverb in that room is mad..you can really hear it while they are talking.

Actually, at 28:43 A Day In The Life used two Four Track machines in tandem to record the Orchestra, utilizing a very primitive synchronizing method that was very hit-or-miss. They recorded the pulse of the motor onto a track of the second machine and then used the recorded pulse to drive the motor of the first machine and keep it at the same speed. It worked perfectly for the Mono mix, but when it came time to do the Stereo mix, they had a different machine. Producer George Martin was pissed, as you can hear the Orchestra is slightly late, but it doesn't matter.

Thanks for sharing, I have been using the reverb Wave plugins, seeing the real thing is amazing ! Mainly the reverb room !

Visited Abbey Road Studio 2 this November for 90th Anniversary Festival, nice vibe in this room :) Thank you, psychedelic heroes, keep creating weird stuff!

this has been gold. many thanks.

Great work guys. I have no use for ABBEY Roads 2 but I'm still supporting you guys. Keeping my eyes open for what's next.

Lovely, thank you.

Excellent work.

Big thank you to Mirek Stiles. What a wealth of knowledge and history he must have. Great host. I assume proficient at his job also. 20 years @ Abbey Road is quite the resume headline.

Christian, What made some of those mics were the factories that are no longer that made certain products for the Neumann mics for the capsules etc. just after or before WWII. I hear someone has found some of those products and been able to buy the parts, for some sort of re-release. I'll find out which company did that. BTW, I have Klaus Heyne modified U 87's from the 70's, which can still be modified. I used to have a matched set of U 47's that Klaus modified also. AMAZING mic. I'll fine a picture somewhere. Cheers!!

Amazing.

Very cool. I am recording my next solo piano CD on that Steinway Grand in June 2022. Goosebumps!!!!

wow those mics! the stories and historic performances they have captured!

Thanks! Great video!

Just loved it’s! Much of the soundtrack to my life was created there. Kind of a big deal.

Bright spark, flammable! I like it! ;D

Amazing, hope they tour Studio 1 as well!

Such a cool video!

Breathtaking

Drool. My bucket list includes visiting (or especially recording) in this room, but alas as far as I got was to sit on the front steps while on vacation back in 2015 while a session was happening. Just soaking up the vibes!

A great video! You ask and talk about all the right things Christian, I think . I had a wander around studio 2 and the control room by myself about 3 years ago - I was working as an event chippie on a birthday party that had rented Studio 1 and 2 for 3 days. During slow moments I was just free to poke about late at night, sit in front of the Neve. I'm not sure the Red 17 was there.. I remember there being another rack on top of the other too, my only other memory of gear was a Chiswick compressor in that rack. Mostly I was imagining a time of Kate Bush and "swinging in the chair at Abbey Road", probably prompted by her picture on the stairs. Played on the Celeste and that lackered piano . It was oddly inspiring - I kind of felt at home.