Reverb has a pretty big one for you all today – they’re selling the recording console used by the Beatles to record iconic Abbey Road album is coming to Reverb. The restored EMI TG12345 recording console will be for sale through the official Reverb shop of London’s recording studio experts, MJQ Ltd, starting October 29 right here.
“Abbey Road is one of the best albums that’s ever been made, and it sounds so good because of this recording console,” said Dave Harries, who participated in numerous Beatles recording sessions with the console in the 1960s. “Because of the way that Abbey Road was recorded, the album has a distinctive sound that hallmarked the future of pop recording.”
Getting your hands on a EMI TG12345 hasn’t been easy, either. According to Harries, the console’s sound was so superior and distinctive that George Harrison asked EMI if he could buy one for himself, only to be turned down out of a fear that the console would be replicated and sold to one of their competitors.
“If you talk to the engineers who have used it, they’ll tell you the same thing: It’s a beautiful sounding machine…it enhances everything that goes through it,” said Mike “The TG Man” Hedges, acclaimed producer and engineer known for his work with The Cure, U2, and more.
“I even once threatened to stop working at Abbey Studios after being told that they planned to switch from EMI to a different brand of consoles. That is how I managed to purchase the consoles. A deal was done for me to acquire the replaced consoles”
So get your wallets ready, because this ain’t gonna be cheap.
