Google publishes "Inside Abbey Road" that allows you to experience the legendary "Abbey Road Studio" 360 degrees in street view

It is in London, EnglandAbbey Road StudioYou can walk around "Inside Abbey Road"Has been released. On the site that the studio and Google co-produced, we can walk around in the studio like a "Google street view" and experience various special contents.

Inside Abbey Road
https://insideabbeyroad.withgoogle.com/en/welcome

The Abbey Road Studio opened in 1931 is a studio used by the big names such as the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Cliff Richard, Radiohead, Oasis, Lady Gaga in recent years, the historical construction of the world of music A studio that can be called a thing. In the studio where you've heard it once, if you are a music fan, ordinary people could not get into the stairs quite easily, but by starting this content provision anyone can visit the studio at any time It is.

When you open the page you will see the entrance door to the building of the studio. By clicking "Step Inside" you can step into the scene where numerous record works were born.


"First Studio (Studio One)" to enter the foot after entering the foot is possible here, it is possible to listen to a recording experience, a movie containing a studio's scene, a detailed explanation.


Clicking on the blue or red icon displayed on the screen makes it an interactive page that allows you to experience detailed information corners and YouTube movies.


It is possible to hear studio comment by Mr. Giles Martin who is a son of George Martin who is a name producer deeply involved in the Beatles work and also producer himself.


Even so, it is a spacious and ceilinging studio. That should be the case, this first studio has the capacity to record orchestra, and the soundtrack of the movie "Star Wars" is recorded in this studio.


If you move the viewpoint a little, you can see the scene unique to the studio, such as chairs and pianos placed for the orchestra, and cables hung on the wall.


When you move to the control room where the mixer desk is placed, it looks like this. It is a control room of Abbey Road Studio where many recording engineers admire once.


Large studio and large mixer table is introduced. It is located in Neve's "88RS"The analog console of the highest peak that its price reaches 100 million yen. Boasting a high quality sound that does not get close even in the era of digital prime, it has a strong popularity in a unique analog sound. Clicking the light blue icon displayed on the desk ... ...


I was able to experience the mix down of the songs. You can adjust the volume balance of sound sources recorded separately, such as drums, guitar, orchestra, vocals, etc, and you can experience your mix while listening comprehensively with the example model. In the end it is possible to match the answers, so it may be interesting to try simple mix tests.


If you move the cursor to the lower left of the screen, you can display part of the whole map. Contents are hidden in the icons on the map, for example, when clicking the icon written as "Sting" ......


I was able to see the image of a singer / Sting who plays a song such as masterpiece "Englishman in New York" with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. There are over 70 such contents in the studio everywhere.


Next, I went to "the second studio". The second studio here is a studio where the Beatles had recorded a lot of work, where the former member Paul McCartney said "It's comfortable next to home." A lot of musicians other than the Beatles have left the work at this studio, and if you like music you should hear the sound of this studio before you know it. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is "the most famous studio in the world" in a sense.


You can also see the recording scenery of the band "Oasis" which was also recorded at the second studio.


Of course, content related to the Beatles was also prepared. By the way, Paul · McCartney said this second studio was too favorite, and it seems that he built a studio like this at home.


It is possible to enjoy various interactive experiences in the control room of the second studio.


In the content using the 4-track tape recorder "J37" that the Beatles used for recording of "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", overdubbing the sounds of various instruments to an old-fashioned 4-track tape recorder Stuffed, you can try to complete the song.


In addition, you can view records of recordings left in the studio. This recording sheet, the Beatles in 1969 "Oh! Darling"It was left when I recorded, and the sign of John Lennon is left.


"The 3rd Studio" is a studio with a relatively small space, and it is a place where more experimental work production was done. From old pink Floyd such as Kanye · West, Radiohead, Spice Girls and Lady Gaga are the names of famous musicians.


The studio with moderately high ceilings is designed to have several booths separated by doors in the main space. It is making it easy to carry out "one-shot recording" in which the bands play all at once.


In the 3 rd studio there is also a room called "Mirror Room" where walls can become mirrored and gain sounds with distinctive reverberation.


In addition, it is possible to see the collection of vintage microphones possessed by Abbey Road Studios. As you can watch as licking around the microphone around, it is content that is nothing for maniacs.


In "mastering room" it is possible to see the mastering scenery etc in Abbey Road Studio. As the example shows "i" icons showing contents here and there, they can enjoy until they are full.


The figure of "cutting machine" which inscribes the master record of analog record is also. In the cutting machine, a blank disc called "lacquer board" is placed, and it is a machine which can make analog records directly by engraving with a needle controlled by electromagnet while rotating it like a record. In addition, although many shavings are produced after shaving, it seems that this sludge will burn well, and it seems that there were many cases where boogers became a fuss in the past.


In this way, "Inside Abbey Road" was able to see the state of Abbey Road Studio which is very difficult to enter in general, and was able to enjoy various special contents further. Although it is Abby Road Studio which can be said to be a historic building, in reality it is said that the management situation is not good due to the decline in studio needs and the use fee which is said to be expensive. Inside Abbey Road, where you can see details of such a studio, seems to be said to be quite possibly leaving precious materials.