EMI TG12345

The EMI TG12345 was a mixing console designed by EMI for their Abbey Road Studios, which was used to mix several influential albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

[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.

Several influential albums were mixed on the console, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

[6] The original console was rescued from a skip, restored over a period of 4 years and placed for auction in October 2024 [7] In 2011, Chandler Limited released the Curve Bender, a rackmount recreation of the TG12345's EQ section.