And the Hello Chats, thank you for joining us on this bonus podcast edition. Thank you for coming back. As you know we

recently recorded an episode with your chief creative advisor, Nyle Rogers, so we thought

it might be nice to come back and have a bit of a chat with you about the sort of things that have been going on here inside the hall of Abbey Road.

So do you want to start by just introducing yourselves and let us know what it is that you do at Abbey Road.

My name is Merrick Stiles. I am the head of audio products here at Abbey Road Studios and

what that means is I work with third-party companies like Waves, Native Instruments, Chandler Limited and we create music

making tools based on some of our intellectual property from the past and current techniques as well.

And I also am a member of the Abbey Road Red Board,

which is our incubation program for music tech startups.

And I'm currently sort of exploring the the strange

world of VR augmented reality 3D sound for those formats and how that works so yeah sort of getting myself from

lots of trouble and generally confusing myself but he's leading the way.

he's a very modest man he's leading the way so So hello, I'm Mark Robertson, I'm Abbey Rhodes, head of brand, and I guess my job is perhaps

about sort of defining what our brand is about, define what our purpose is, and actually where we can go.

What are the challenges for us?

How we're seen by the outside world

and what we can do really to

sort of challenge perceptions

because obviously we're known for perhaps one or two bands in particular,

but exactly as you said, I mean this continues to be like a really amazing thriving destination,

you know, whether it's film scores, whether it's jazz recordings just all manner of

interesting projects comes here and I suppose also you know we've been through an

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