Chandler Limited and Abbey Road announce ‘The Redd Mixing System’

13 January 2026 - Press release

The first EMI recording console in 50 years

Today (13 Jan), Abbey Road Studios and Chandler Limited proudly unveil the REDD Mixing System, a groundbreaking, fully modular console that brings together every era of EMI’s legendary recording equipment in one elegant, expandable format. Marking the first EMI Recording console released in over 50 years, the REDD Mixing System lets users design their ideal setup, combining REDD, TG, and RS channels and busses in any configuration, from home studios to world-class control rooms.
Six years in the making, the system was developed through an intensive collaboration and experimentation process between Wade Goeke of Chandler Limited, Mirek Stiles, Abbey Road’s Head of Audio Products, and the wider Abbey Road team.
Wade Goeke, Founder of Chandler Limited explains “Development of the new desk was a labor of love. I wanted to include all the different sounding gear we make with Abbey Road as well as offering a modular approach that is more suited for modern recording setups. I can have a very small system at home and cover everything I need, whether it be tracking with tube or solid state gear, mixing in the box, reamplifying, inserting pedals with the sends, passive EQ on the busses, flexible control room options and even glow-in-the-dark faders that add a creative feel to a dimly lit studio. This has truly been the Design of a Lifetime and one I hope adds to the legacy of EMI, Abbey Road and Chandler Limited.”

Mirek Stiles, Abbey Road’s Head Of Audio Products says “I was introduced to the TG and REDD desks at Abbey Road Studios when I was 18 years old. I’d never seen or heard anything like them. I was blown away watching how producers like Mike Hedges, Jon Brion or Peter Cobbin would use them to colour the sound of their recordings and mixes in such a musical way. Examples of the original desks used on everything from The Beatles to film scores like Raiders of the Lost Ark are very rare indeed, so it’s with great pleasure to witness Wade revive these beautiful engineering classics for artists, producers and engineers of today, all of course with a modern innovative twist. Wade has created a modern classic, there simply isn’t anything else like this on the market. I truly believe the music production community now have access to a tool that will re-define what the mixing console is and how it’s used creatively.”

 

All cassettes (channels) are 100% hardwired and hand assembled as they would have been made at the original EMI Hayes manufacturing facility
Mounts easily in any rack with 12u spaces are free.
Expands to nearly any size using additional rack bays such as those found in modern studio furniture.
Completely user configurable in any combination of channels and busses.
Both tube and solid state cassettes can be intermixed.
Easily assembled and disassembled.
All units are transformer balanced in and out.
Switches are hand populated eyelet style and wired by hand.
PCBs are hand soldered and hand loaded.
Each cassette is truly handmade. No surface mount, no ribbon cables and no PC mount switches are used in this system or any other Chandler Limited products.
Exclusively newly designed vintage faders on each channel match the exact look of a vintage desk but with modernized mechanism.
Input Cassettes
Class A, TG2-style preamp combined with 4-band Curvebender EQ.
All tube REDD mic pre/EQ with switchable Pop and Classic EQ curves.
MKI TG Cassette with germanium transistors. Designed directly from the first TG desks circa 1969 (to be released Q4 2026).
BUSS Cassette Types
Class A, TG2-style buss circuit.
Tube buss that uses a new RS61 type circuit.
Each Buss Cassette includes
Wet/dry mix on stereo buss with switchable insert point.
NAB/IEC stereo buss EQ.
Low level insert on each send.
Pre-amp style Coarse and Fine gain for driving busses or adjusting buss gain structure.
Low level insert (on each console send)
Reamplification output allows for instant reamplifying from any console input cassette.
Allows for inserting any guitar pedal or low-level source on each of the sends. Easily insert a distortion pedal or old analog delay directly into your workflow with no need for additional re-amp boxes.
12-Channel Expander Cassette
12 Class A TG2-style circuits in each.
12 transformers in each cassette.
Use multiple Expanders for large “mix-in-the-mix systems” or for additional instrument/effect returns.
4 Buss 4 Send on each channel.
Master Buss
Stereo channel master cassette out for bigger systems.
Wet/Dry mix and switchable insert point.
Class A TG2-style circuit.
Control Room
Switching for three sets of speakers
Selectable monitoring for Busses, Sends, Master Buss, Aux and External Inputs.
Talkback to Busses, Sends, All or Audio Out for headphone systems.
Discrete Op Amp Headphone amplifier - ultra clean with discrete tone.
Discrete Op Amp Speaker output - ultra clean with discrete tone.
Mutes, Mono, Dim, Pole R (for phase checks).
Beautiful LED backlit EMI fader design.

Learn more about Chandler Limited’s REDD Mixing System here.

Release of the REDD Mixing System will be a soft-launch and will at present, be available in the United States through Chandler Limited as a special order.

Given that all units are hand made in America and the wide-variety of possible setups, Chandler Limited will need time to establish infrastructure for building and sales of the Console System.

Therefore sales will be offered initially in the US through Chandler Limited, with determinations of wider distribution to be made at a later date.

We will be taking special orders immediately with expected delivery dates of August 2026.

Contact office@chandlerlimied.com for more information regarding setup options, pricing and availability.

For more information:
Quint Goeke, President
Judy Goeke, Vice President and General Manager
319-885-4200
office@chandlerlimited,com | judy@chandlerlimited.com