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Chandler Limited and Abbey Road Studios announce the REDD Mixing System
First EMI recording console introduced in over 50 years
[London, 13 January 2026] — Chandler Limited and Abbey Road Studios today announced the REDD Mixing System, a fully modular, hand-built analog console that unites every era of EMI’s legendary recording technology into a single, expandable platform. The console will be on display during The NAMM Show 2026, January 22 – 24, in the Anaheim Convention Center North Hall, booth 15913. Marking the first EMI recording console introduced in more than five decades, the REDD Mixing System enables engineers to design a personalized desk by freely combining REDD, TG, and RS channels and busses in virtually any configuration. The system is equally suited to compact personal studios and the most demanding world-class control rooms, offering unprecedented flexibility without compromising legendary performance.
Six years in development, the REDD Mixing System is the result of an intensive collaboration between Chandler Limited founder Wade Goeke, Abbey Road Studios’ Head of Audio Products Mirek Stiles, and the wider Abbey Road engineering team. Designed to reflect both classic EMI construction techniques and modern studio workflows, every modular channel cassette is 100 percent hard-wired, transformer-balanced, and hand-assembled in the spirit of the original EMI Hayes manufacturing facility. Reinforcing Chandler Limited’s long-standing commitment to uncompromising build quality, switches are hand-populated and wired eyelet-style, PCBs are hand-soldered and hand-loaded, and no surface-mount components, ribbon cables, or PCB-mounted switches are used anywhere in the system.
“Development of the new desk was a labor of love,” says Goeke. “I wanted to include all the different sounding gear we make with Abbey Road in a modular approach that is more suited for modern recording setups.” The system’s versatility includes solid state and tube signal paths, simplified reamplifying and pedal insertion and flexible control room options. The visual identity of the REDD Mixing System’s heritage is completed by beautifully illuminated LED backlit faders that match the vintage EMI look while housing newly designed modern mechanisms.
The REDD Mixing System’s modular architecture allows cassettes to be mounted into a console frame occupying 12U of standard rack space. Near-limitless expansion is possible by populating additional bays. Systems can be easily assembled, reconfigured, or disassembled as needs evolve, with tube and solid-state cassettes freely intermixed throughout the desk.
Input cassette options include a Class A TG2-style microphone preamplifier paired with a four-band Curve Bender EQ, and an all-tube REDD mic pre/EQ featuring switchable Pop and Classic EQ curves. In development is a MKI TG cassette based on the original germanium transistor TG desks, circa 1969, with release planned for Q4 2026.
Buss options are Class A TG2-style Buss cassettes or tube Buss cassettes based on a newly developed RS61-type circuit. Each Buss cassette includes a stereo wet/dry mix control with a switchable insert point, NAB/IEC stereo buss EQ, preamp-style coarse and fine gain controls for setting buss drive levels or fine-tuning buss gain structure. Low-level inserts on each console send allow for instant reamping from any console input cassette without the need for external reamp boxes, while also making it easy to integrate guitar pedals or other low-level devices directly into the signal path.
For higher channel count configurations, 12-Channel Expander cassettes provide additional flexibility, each housing twelve Class A TG2-style circuits and transformers. Multiple expanders can be combined to create large “mix-in-the-mix” systems or to accommodate additional instrument and effects returns, with four busses and four sends available on each channel. The stereo Master Buss cassette, also designed for larger configurations, features Class A TG2-style circuitry, wet/dry mix capability, and a switchable insert point. The comprehensive Control Room cassette supports three sets of speakers and provides selectable monitoring of busses, sends, master buss, auxes, and external inputs. Additional features include talkback routing to busses, sends, all outputs, or headphone systems; discrete op-amp headphone amplification with ultra-clean performance and musical tone; discrete op-amp speaker outputs; and essential monitoring controls such as mute, mono, dim, and polarity.
“I was introduced to the TG and REDD desks at Abbey Road Studios when I was 18 years old,” says Abbey Road’s Stiles. “I’d never seen or heard anything like them. I was blown away watching how producers like Mike Hedges, Jon Brion or Peter Cobbin would use them to color the sound of their recordings and mixes in such a musical way. It’s been a great pleasure to witness Wade revive these beautiful engineering classics for artists, producers and engineers of today, all of course with a modern innovative twist.” As proof of performance, a REDD Mixing System was placed into active production use by nine-time GRAMMY® Award–winning producer Dave Cobb, who used the console on GRAMMY® Award–winning albums for Jason Isbell and Brandi Carlile. “I truly believe the music production community now have access to a tool that will re-define what the mixing console is and how it’s used creatively,” Stiles surmises. Goeke concludes, “This has truly been the design-of-a-lifetime and one I hope adds to the legacy of EMI, Abbey Road and Chandler Limited.”
The REDD Mixing System will initially be available in the United States exclusively through Chandler Limited as a special-order system with expected deliveries beginning in August 2026.
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Photo Caption 2: The first EMI recording console introduced in more than five decades, the REDD Mixing System enables engineers to design a personalized desk by freely combining REDD, TG, and RS channels and busses in virtually any configuration for applications ranging from compact personal studios to the most demanding world-class control roomsAbout Chandler Limited
Headquartered in Shell Rock, Iowa, Chandler Limited, Inc. is a boutique manufacturer of high-end signal processors, mixers and amplifiers for musicians and audio professionals. Recognized globally for its exquisitely handmade products and the company’s high-profile clientele, Chandler’s product offerings include the EMI Abbey Road Studios series, its unique Germanium transistor series of products, 500-series modules, microphones and guitar pedals.CHANDLER LIMITED, INC., 222 South Cherry Street, Shell Rock IA 50670
Phone 319-885-4200; FAX 319-885-4202; website www.chandlerlimited.comAbout Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road is the home of music-making. We are the world’s first and most iconic recording studio, and a leader in sonic innovation, with the experience and craft to bring out the best music in any vision or idea.
For almost 94 years, we’ve welcomed the artists who have shaped music and popular culture. From the greats - The Beatles, Fela Kuti, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Yehudi Menuhin, Massive Attack, Amy Winehouse, Oasis, Nick Cave, Stevie Wonder and Shirley Bassey, to the legends of today - Lady Gaga, Little Simz, The Smile, Florence, Dave, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Frank Ocean, Ezra Collective, Sam Smith, Morgan Wallen and Stormzy.
Once a nine-bedroom house, we’re now a global community of artists, experts, inventors, and engineers, whose technology and expertise can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Alongside our studios and writing spaces, we work to develop groundbreaking technology that continues to change the future of music-making. Through our learning programmes and workshops, we’re creating one-off experiences and empowering a new generation of talent.
This home has created soundtracks to nights in, nights out, heartbreaks, and first loves. Epic adventures and life-affirming stories. We’ve been home to the greatest film music of the last 45 years. From Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Star Wars and Harry Potter movies, and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, to Barbie, Gravity, The Shape of Water, Tar, Wakanda Forever, Frankenstein, and all the Marvel titles. Across genres, generations, and continents, Abbey Road helps music makers move the world. Come on in.
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