Audio Engineering Society UK

Title: ‘Remastering and Audio Restoration at Abbey Road Studios’
Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, London
Description: Lecture by Simon Gibson of Abbey Road Studios
Start Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Date: Tuesday 11th May 2010

EMI has an archive going back to 1898 and, since Abbey Road Studios opened in 1931, there has been a gradual increase in the remastering of that back catalogue for new formats. Starting with a potted history of EMI, the early years of recording and the work of Alan Blumlein, we move on to the emergence of remastering at Abbey Road and the systems and techniques used today. The talk will then concentrate on the use made of CEDAR Audio’s Retouch software in the audio restoration of The Beatles album remasters as well as its more usual use in the creation of music for the video game The Beatles Rockband. Along the way we will hear rare audio extracts from EMI’s archive and clips from The Beatles’ recordings to demonstrate these remastering and restoration techniques.