The Waves Abbey Road Vinyl Plugin reckons to be a precise model of Abbey Road Studios’ vinyl cutting and playback gear, ‘designed to give your music the vintage warmth of vinyl records played on classic turntables and needles’.

Designed in collaboration Abbey Road Studios, the plug-in captures each stage of the vinyl production and playback process, allowing choice of the sound of a pure acetate (lacquer) cut or the print master vinyl pressing from the factory as well as ‘playing’ the records on two distinct turntable types with a choice of three cartridges. The audio can also be processed by a model of Abbey Road’s TG12410 mastering console on the path into the vinyl lathe.

Abbey Road Vinyl can also mimic the position of the tone arm as it tracks across the record, changing the frequency response and distortion artefacts. Vinyl noise, pops and crackles can be applied, and there is a gradual slow-down/stop turntable effect, and wow and flutter effects cann be used for ‘analogue warmth’.

‘One of the really amazing things about this plug-in is that it allows you to experiment with the vinyl sound in ways and situations that just wouldn’t be practical in the real world,’ says Abbey Road Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles. ‘This is a really authentic plug-in of the vinyl sound, which no one has done before. The sound that’s been captured with this plu-gin, and the work that Waves has done, is absolutely amazing.’

‘This is the true sound of vinyl cutting at Abbey Road, adds Geoff Pesche, Vinyl Mastering and Cutting Engineer at Abbey Road Studios. ‘The noise, the clicks, the bumps, the wow and flutter, all that ‘nasty’ stuff on records that people love – the analogue sound and the warmth.’

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