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Abbey Road Studios
Brilliance Pack
Foreword by Peter Cobbin
“Welcome to a little Abbey Road brilliance.
Throughout the ‘60s there were a number of small boxes dotted around Abbey Road
Studios, which were simply known as ‘Brilliance’ or ‘Presence’ boxes. In this era, engi-
neers were looking for ways of adding presence to their recordings, especially in popular
music. Enter the Brilliance boxes: these simple passive equalizers were portable versions
of the grey RS127s that were rack-mounted into the studio control room patchbays.
They were designed to give Abbey Road Studios recording engineers additional fre-
quencies that were not found on the EMI REDD studio mixing desks of the time.
Meet Lester
Lester Smith is a technical engineer at Abbey Road Studios and, amongst other things,
is the custodian of our vintage equipment and microphone collection.