The TG12345 was installed in Abbey Road Studio Two in late 1968,[2] making it possible for the studio to double the number of tracks it could record simultaneously, from four to eight. The mixer had twenty-four microphone inputs and eight tape outputs,[3] a significant increase over the eight microphone inputs and four tape outputs of the REDD .51 mixing console that it replaced.[4] This also enabled the studio to replace its four-track Studer J37 multitrack tape recorder with the eight-track 3M M23.[5]
The TG12345 was Abbey Road Studios' first solid-state mixing console and, unlike its predecessors that were based on vacuum tubes, it featured a compressor as well as equalization built into each channel.
Hardware recreations and software emulations[edit]
In 2011, Chandler Limited released the Curve Bender, a rackmount recreation of the TG12345's EQ section.[7] In 2014, Waves Audio released a plug-in that emulates two channels of the TG12345.[8]
