Chandler Limited and Abbey Road Studios have announced the REDD Mixing System, a new modular analog recording and mixing console that brings together multiple generations of EMI console design into a single platform. The system is being shown publicly for the first time at NAMM 2026, taking place January 22–24 in Anaheim, California.
According to the companies, the REDD Mixing System represents the first EMI-branded recording console introduced in more than 50 years. Rather than a fixed-format desk, the system is designed around a modular architecture that allows engineers to assemble custom configurations by combining REDD, TG, and RS-style channel and buss modules. This approach is intended to support a wide range of studio environments, from smaller private rooms to large-format control rooms, with the ability to expand or reconfigure the console over time.
Development of the REDD Mixing System spanned approximately six years and involved close collaboration between Chandler Limited founder Wade Goeke, Abbey Road Studios Head of Audio Products Mirek Stiles, and Abbey Road’s engineering team. The design reflects historical EMI construction practices while incorporating features intended to align with modern recording workflows. Each channel cassette is fully hard-wired and transformer-balanced, with hand-assembled components throughout. Chandler Limited states that the system avoids surface-mount components, ribbon cables, and PCB-mounted switches in favor of traditional hand-wired and hand-soldered techniques.
The modular cassettes are housed in console frames that occupy 12U of standard rack space per bay, with additional bays available for expansion. Tube and solid-state modules can be freely intermixed within the same system. Visual design cues reference classic EMI consoles, including illuminated faders designed to echo the appearance of vintage desks while using newly developed mechanical components.
Several input cassette options are planned at launch. These include a Class A TG2-style microphone preamplifier paired with a four-band Curve Bender EQ, as well as an all-tube REDD microphone preamp/EQ with switchable Pop and Classic EQ curves. Chandler Limited also confirmed that a MKI TG cassette, based on the original germanium transistor TG consoles from the late 1960s, is currently in development with a targeted release in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Buss cassette options include Class A TG2-style busses and tube-based busses derived from a newly developed RS61-type circuit. Each buss module includes stereo wet/dry mix control, a switchable insert point, NAB/IEC stereo buss EQ, and both coarse and fine gain controls. The system also incorporates low-level inserts on console sends, enabling reamping directly from console channels and facilitating integration of pedals or other low-level devices without external reamp boxes.
For larger configurations, the REDD Mixing System supports 12-channel expander cassettes, each providing twelve Class A TG2-style circuits with four busses and four sends per channel. A stereo master buss cassette is available for higher channel-count systems, offering TG2-style circuitry, wet/dry mix control, and insert functionality. Monitoring and routing are handled by a dedicated control room cassette, which supports up to three speaker sets and provides monitoring of busses, sends, master buss, auxiliary paths, and external inputs. Additional features include talkback routing, discrete headphone amplification, discrete speaker outputs, and standard monitoring controls such as mute, mono, dim, and polarity.
Abbey Road’s Mirek Stiles noted that his early exposure to TG and REDD consoles influenced his perspective on their sonic character and creative use, and described the new system as an effort to bring those design principles forward in a contemporary context. Chandler Limited also confirmed that a REDD Mixing System has already been used in active production, including sessions by producer Dave Cobb on recent award-winning albums.
The REDD Mixing System will initially be available in the United States as a special-order product directly through Chandler Limited, with deliveries expected to begin in August 2026.
