Thanks to a new plug-in from Waves, the reverberating sounds of Abbey Road’s legendary Studio 2 echo chamber can now be at your fingertips, complete with Abbey Road Studios’ long-lost S.T.E.E.D. setup. From natural chamber reverb to delay cascades with the Abbey Road Chambers plug-in, the door is finally open.
Get The Abbey Road Studio 2 Sound
The Abbey Road Chambers plug-in recreates a defining part of the studios’ legendary sonic signature – the echo chamber used by Abbey Road’s pop engineers to create reverbs, delays and other unique spatial effects used on classic recordings by the Beatles and many others.
Developed together with Abbey Road Studios, Waves’ Abbey Road Chambers plug-in gives you access to the controls of the Studio Two echo chamber, complete with the original valve Neumann KM53 microphones and Altec 605 speaker.
Abbey Road Chambers 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 refine the sound some more.
There is also a complete recreation of Abbey Road Studios’ original S.T.E.E.D. (Send. Tape. Echo. Echo. Delay.) set up – a system designed to extend the chamber’s natural sonic palette 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 plug-in also includes two more legendary spaces: Abbey Road’s famed Mirror Room, and the Stone Room from Olympic Studios, London.
Learn More About The Abbey Road Studio 2 Echo Chamber
Join Mirek Stiles, Head of Audio Products at Abbey Road Studios, as he revisits the history of Abbey Road's echo chambers and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how Abbey Road's Studio Two echo chamber was recreated as a Waves plug-in.
Waves Abbey Road Chambers Features Summary
- 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 modelling 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
Listen To Some Audio Examples Using The Waves Abbey Road Chambers Plug-in
- Female Vocals - 0:01
- Male Vocals - 00:32
- Drums - 00:59
Female vocal by Ilana Lorraine. "Thank You" written by Ilana Lorraine and J.
Abbey Road Chambers (V10) - System Requirements
- Mac
- CPU
- Intel Core i5 / i7 / Xeon
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- 8 GB free disk space on the system drive
- Operating System - 10.11.6 - 10.13.5
- Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1024x768
- Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
- USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
- Support for Visually Impaired Users
- Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4
- VoiceOver Utility enabled
- Pro Tools 12.7
- Logic 10.3.1
- Please note: Waves Central and preset management via the WaveSystem Toolbar are currently not supported.
- CPU
- Windows
- CPU
- Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon / AMD Quad-Core
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- 8 GB free disk space on the system drive
- Operating System
- Windows 7 with SP1 64 bit
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Windows 10 64 bit
- Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1024x768
- Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
- CPU