Behind The Console: Mastering Engineer Oli Morgan Interview | Inside Abbey Road

Thank you to the wonderful people at Abbey Road Studios & Abbey Road Institute for their cooperation, support, and supplying of materials that made this possible.

Producer: Warren Huart
Camera: Adam Steel
Editing: Adam Steel

Photos from The Art of Recording Vol.1, Abbey Road Studios x Legacy+Art
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[Producelikeapro]

What are some of your favourite mastering tools in your music production?

[Beatledave]

Very much enjoy your Abbey Road tours Warren! Such a magical place most of us will never see but can thru your videos. So very interesting! Thank you!

[PL-]

Thanks for another great and very interesting video. Did not expect myself to watch the full when starting, but watched it to the end

[Joey-rpvg]

Great stuff, Oli you Rock!!!! Wonderful to see how the big guns work. Great series of Abbey Road. Thanks very much

[thesongacademy]

Thanks for another great Abbey Road video Warren

[EricGPLAP]

what great insight in this Abbey Road series!

[jonathanrichard]

Lurssen Mastering Suite, EQ-432, Vari-Mu plugins. A Big Thank you to the Mastering Engineers at Abbey Road. Thank you Warren for bring us there on-line. The Tips I got for Mastering have made Everything Sound Better!!!

[jonathanrichard]

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"Listen, lookit, very simply: Musicologically and ethnically the Rutles were an essentially empirical melange of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passe and temporarily transcendent lyrical content - while with its historically innovative melodic material, transposed and transmogrified by the angst of the Rutland ethnic experience, which elevated them from the alpha exponents of, in essence merely beta harmonic material into the prime cultural exponents of Aeolian cadenza cosmic stanza form."

- Dr. Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr. (aka Monty Python's Eric Idle), occasional visiting professor of Applied Narcotics at Pleaseyourself University in California.

It is very well known that the Rutles availed themselves of all the studio trickeries used by the engineers at Abbey Road studios.

The Rutles - a living legend that will live on long after other living legends have died - owe their very sound, popularity, and existence to Abbey Road Studios (which, btw, did not have that moniker prior to "Abbey Road, " as it was just called, boringly, EMI STUDIOS. Later, the Rutles would move their studio operations to Baker Street, paint the building up like THE FOOLS, and rock the denizens of London on their lunch break from the rooftop of their building, just PRAYING that the bobbies would come and "bust them, " just so the movie they were making, LET IT ROT, would have a cool ending. Whattaya gonna do, it's just show business. That could never have happened on the rooftop of EMI STUDIOS. Not in a hundred years.

Rock On, Abbey Road Studios, Rock On!

[gutekzpoligonu]

Hi Warren, I have a quick Q:

From Your experience and others Greats that You've learned from/talked to: How many dB's below the final mastered song I should finish my mix for mastering engineer? How much "room" leave for them to push for final touch?

[infinaneek]

Ha I went to Kingston and then BIMM in Brighton.

[RockmannMusic]

I do agree on the Welsh Flag but I do not want to sit in the "middle of the band"

[paulEmotionalaudio]

I’ve always supported what the Produce Like a Pro team do but honestly, the comment that it’s “trolling to say that the issues you’re talking about should be fixed at the mix stage” is ignorant at worst and pandering to the interviewee at best. I’m not a writer or composer but my impression was that, at the preproduction stage, the intent was always to minimise the amount of writing done when recording. My goal as a recording engineer was always to have the mixer do as little as possible and as a mixer, have the mastering engineer tell me they did nothing. I know most audio people feel the same. Having the capability to do stem mastering is great but we’re unnecessarily further deferring decisions and commitments that should be made at the recording and then mixing stages. Surprised you don’t feel that way.