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The Sound of EMI/Abbey Road!
The EMI TG12345 Curve Bender is the ultimate TG equalizer issued in celebration of the 75th birthday of Abbey Road Studios. The Curve Bender was conceived by Chandler Limited designer Wade Goeke and Abbey Road senior engineer Peter Cobbin and is based on the vintage EMI TG12345 desk used to record The Beatles and Pink Floyd. This newest EMI equalizer continues the tradition of EMI EQs started in 1951 with the RS56, affectionately entitled the Curve Bender by EMI designers and continued with the TG12345 in 1968, and TG12412 in 1974. The newest version takes the simple but beautiful sounding TG12345 equalizer and realizes it in a fully featured and rethought package for today's use.
During his mixing of numerous Beatles related projects including, Anthology, Yellow Submarine, and Imagine, Peter Cobbin thought of having a fully featured and ultimately flexible version of the original desk EQ units. After Wade presented him with a working version of the famed console EQ Pete realized his time had come and set Wade to making his unit. Peter asked for four bands and filters based on the slopes of the original desk but with overlapping and expanded choices. Wade turned the 9 selections on the vintage version into 51 EQ points plus a multiply switch that increases the boost/cut to 15db (as well as sharpening the Q), filters, and bell/shelf selections on the high and low bands. The result is the Curve Bender, a simple equalizer from the rich past of EMI and Abbey Road that's now come full circle into a modern powerhouse suitable for recording, mixing, and mastering.
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"It can be argued that Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon is one of the best-sounding records of all time. It was on billboards charts for nearly seven years! Wade Goeke with the help of Abbey Road senior engineer Peter Cobbin has meticulously recreated the original circuitry of the EMI TG12345 MKIV console that was used to record Dark Side. If you love the sound of Dark Side Of The Moon and want to recreate the signal chain that was used, buy a TG2, Zener Limiter and Curve Bender. You will have two channels of amazing sounding preamp, dynamics, and equalization. I was offered a chance to buy the original TG console used to record Dark Side, but I don't see the reason to spend well over a million dollars on a vintage console when I can get the same circuitry at a lower cost through Chandler Limited. The TG series along with the Zener Limiter and Curve Bender really are the same beast! Don't compromise - buy a Chandler unit today! "
Maynard Madsen
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