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The EMI TG12345 was the first solid state mixing console designed by EMI for their Abbey Road Studios. It had 24 microphone inputs and 8 tape outputs, a significant improvement over the 8 microphone inputs and 4 tape outputs of their previous vacuum tube based REDD .51 mixing console. This enabled the studio to replace its 4-track Studer J37 multitrack tape recorder with the 8-track 3M M23. Unlike its predecessors, it had a compressor as well as EQ built into each channel. It was used to mix several influential albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.
Recreation
In 2011, Chandler Limited released the Curve Bender, a rackmount recreation of the TG12345's EQ section. In 2014, Waves Audio released a plug-in that emulates two channels of the TG12345.