Abbey Road Studios have unveiled a new sampled instrument in collaboration with British fashion brand Charles Jeffrey Loverboy – check out all the details below.
Today (Monday February 23), the iconic studio shared the instrument, named ‘The Big Nessie’, which is now available to download for free here. A playable digital instrument designed for music makers of all levels, ‘The Big Nessie’ allows producers to experiment with raw sounds drawn from the creative world of Loverboy and Abbey Road Studios.
Marking Abbey Road’s first fully in-house built sampled instrument, the release serves as the sonic counterpart to Loverboy’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection. Per a press release, it was designed using the studio’s ‘Curve Bender’ approach, which allows for the use of captured sounds, which are then processed through a range of unique vintage equipment and acoustic spaces.
Now, these come as playable digital software instruments for the music production community to experiment with. The sounds found in the instrument are a mixture of recordings from the Loverboy workshop in Somerset House and recordings made in the legendary Studio Two at Abbey Road with Jeffrey and his musical director, Tom Furse, alongside the Abbey Road team.
