Abbey Road Vinyl / User Guide
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Chapter 2: Quick Start Guide
Abbey Road Vinyl emulates the entire vinyl process, from the mastering desk at Abbey Road studios, to the processing
rack and vinyl lathe (resulting in the sound of the Lacquer disk generation), to the press factory (which creates the sound of
the final printed generation). There are layback options with two turntable setups: the high-end turntable that is part of the
Abbey Road lathe or a commonly-used DJ turntable. Three popular cartridges are available.
To get started:
1. Listen to your material with the different setups.
Turn the TG Desk on/off. Toggle between the different Generation,
Turntable and Cartridge options, and decide which best compliments your material and does what you want to
accomplish.
2. Adjust the Noise, Crackle and Click levels and Click Density.
You may want to go for an exaggerated noisy effect
or not use this effect.
3. Adjust the Wow and Flutter Rate and Depth controls
. You can exaggerate these modulation effects or remove them
altogether. Note that the values in this section change from setup to setup to match the sound and behavior of these
setups.
4. Adjust the Phase Distortion controls.
Abbey Road Vinyl creates and controls phase distortion by duplicating the
input signal and sending one source through a modulator. The other source is unaffected. When the two signals are
recombined, phase distortion occurs. You can increase or decrease the level, shape, and focus of phase distortion
effect by changing the bandwidth of the modulated signal. The HP/LP filters change the spectrum of the modulated
signal.
Increasing the value of the HP filter, for example, results in a “thinner” signal going to the modulator. The recombined
signal will have less phase distortion at low frequencies. Decreasing HP distortion, conversely, results in more low-
frequency phase distortion.
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