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Abbey Road REDD Consoles.

The REDD.17, REDD.37 and REDD.51 valve consoles built for Abbey Road.

£29
Waves Abbey Road REDD Consoles
Compatibility
VST3 · AU · AAX
Formats
Waves
Developer

Overview

Valve desks, three of them.

REDD Consoles models the three valve desks Abbey Road's own Record Engineering Development Department built in-house for the studios in the 1960s. The REDD.17 and REDD.37 are built around Siemens V72 tube amplifiers, the REDD.51 around the studio's own REDD.47 preamps, and each carries a different weight and character. Equalisation is deliberately minimal, a few musical curves rather than surgical control, and pushing the drive is where the raw, hard 60s sound comes from.

Highlights

Models three REDD valve consoles: REDD.17, REDD.37 and REDD.51
Built by EMI's own engineers for Abbey Road, only a handful existed
Valve colour present before any control is moved
Driving the input thickens rather than distorting
The three desks differ audibly from one another
Nearly all the Beatles catalogue passed through them
Mono and stereo components
Part of the Abbey Road Collection

Compatibility

Specs and requirements.

Licence and delivery

Formats
VSTVST3AUAAX NativeAAX DSP
Licence
Perpetual licence
Delivery
Instant download
Type
Channel Strip
SKU
1246-2753
Product code
SGREDD

macOS

OS
11 or later (native Apple Silicon)
Processor
Apple Silicon & Intel

Windows

OS
10 or later (64-bit)
Processor
64-bit Intel / AMD

Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are both natively supported.

Waves

About the maker

Meet Waves.

Waves Audio, founded in 1992 in Israel, is one of the world's largest developers of audio plugins and signal processors. Its catalogue spans EQs, compressors, reverbs, and vintage console emulations used across music, film, broadcast, and live sound.

Waves Abbey Road REDD Consoles

£29