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The REDD.37 and its successor, the REDD.51, had a similar design with added outputs needed to accommodate Abbey Road Studios' new four-track tape machines. Both models featured 14 Painton quadrant faders to control the level of eight microphone input channels, two auxiliary channels, and four master
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Abbey Road Studios’ technical engineer Lenn Page established the Record Engineering Development Department (REDD) in 1955 to develop equipment that would facilitate stereo recordings. At the time, mass-produced recording studio equipment was not available, and EMI/Abbey Road custom-built equipment
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Chandler Limited established a partnership with Abbey Road Studios to develop and produce several plug-in emulations of the studios' classic recording gear, including a plug-in that emulates the REDD.47 microphone amplifier circuit from the REDD.51 mixing console.
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outputs. The REDD.51 featured new amps that offered more headroom and lower distortion; Abbey Road installed the first REDD.51 in Studio 2 in 1964. Only three REDD.37s and four REDD.51 consoles were ever built.
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in London before being installed at Frying Pan Studios inside the MONA Museum in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia), where it is fully restored and working. One REDD.37 console, purchased by
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in 1992 and used at his own Gregory Town Sound studio in The Bahamas. The only remaining REDD.51 in existence, originally employed in the EMI studio in Milan, Italy, is located at
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Abbey Road Studios was forced to retire their 4-track REDD consoles in November 1968, replacing them with the
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were produced with the REDD consoles at Abbey Road Studios. Pink Floyd's 1967 debut album,
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The first REDD console, the REDD.17, was developed in 1958 by Peter Burkotwitz at
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that emulates the REDD.17, REDD.37 and REDD.51 mixing consoles.
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"Vintage Rewind: EMI REDD.51"
ISBN
978-1-4584-2197-5
"Classic recording consoles: SSL, Neve, and REDD"
"4 Decades of Iconic Consoles"
"Gregory Town Sound"
"Studio File: British Grove Studios, London"
"Waves Abbey Road REDD"
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