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“The whole essence of why the sound was so interesting is because it is going from all to nothing in milliseconds”: The classic hit that defined the sound of the ’80s — and features the most famous drum break in rock

How Phil Collins created In The Air Tonight

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“What I learned, I suppose, is just she's very good in the studio, and she knows what works”: Imogen Heap on Taylor Swift's "extremely efficient" songwriting and recording process

“By the time she left, we had managed to write the song, produce the song, record the song, chat, meet, have tea, sit by the fire, eat lunch, eat dinner, do an entire record all by ourselves”

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“I want you to just dive in, use the music, and see what happens”: Moby makes 500 instrumental tracks available for free as he relaunches Mobygratis sound library

"You can remix it, you can edit it, you can add parts to it, you can play clarinet on it, you can use it for social media, for films, for choreography: the idea is complete creative freedom"

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“After every take, Mutt would say, ‘Check the tuning, man!’ This went on and on for almost a year. One day, I just gave him the guitar and said, ‘You tune it. I can’t take this anymore!’”: How legendary producer Mutt Lange drove the Cars half-mad

And the result? 'A beautiful record,' says guitarist Elliot Easton

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“Its provides the mix ‘glue’ that makes everything sound cohesive and finished”: Here's how to compress your mix bus for sonic punch

What does mix bus compression do, how do you use it, and which compressor should you use?

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“I remember thinking: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I could ask Sting to sing that line?’ Suddenly someone said: ‘Sting’s here on holiday! He’s on the beach!’” How Mark Knopfler got lucky with Money For Nothing

It’s amazing who you can bump into in the Caribbean…

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“I got to jam with Stevie Wonder. Just me and him, one afternoon. We each had a keyboard and we were just trading riffs and jamming together and it was like, ‘Wow’”: Howard Jones talks vintage gear, his new piano album and that 1985 Grammys synth medley

“I think things absolutely turned around that night. People stopped putting things on their record saying ‘No synthesizers were used in the making of this record’”

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“His studio was a temple to analogue, within which he made a point of always wearing a boiler suit”: 6 of the quirkiest producers who pushed recorded music further than ever before

They might have operated in idiosyncratic ways, but the particular approaches of these producers have left a footprint on the music landscape

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“A genuinely fun take on the classic distortion-slash-fuzz pedal”: Soma Laboratory Harvezi Hazze

Soma Labs' foray into guitar pedals adds an element of the unhinged into a classic format

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IK Multimedia’s ARC Studio is a game-changing out-of-the-box acoustic room correction system that’s like an instant upgrade for your monitors - without the hassle of software-based solutions

ARC Studio is the only standalone hardware device on the market that offers flexible acoustic correction for any professional stereo monitoring system - and it’s affordable too

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"There’s potential for a degree of chaos here": Cherry Audio Yellowjacket review

The EDP Wasp gets the Cherry Audio treatment

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“Do something with it. Mangle it. You have to be ruthlessly objective": Trevor Horn on his sampling and drum machine production mindset

The legendary producer lowers his guard when quizzed about the 'golden era' of hi-tech music making

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Splice acquires Spitfire Audio in rumoured $50m deal

The two companies plan to work together on new products that "blend Spitfire Audio’s cinematic soundscapes and orchestral expertise with Splice’s sample catalog and AI-powered discovery engine"

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Cherry Audio at Producer Week 2025: Meet the Yellowjacket synthesizer - An entirely new breed

Cherry Audio's latest creation rebirths EDPs classic Wasp from 1978 and powers it up with new features for 2025

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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductees revealed: The White Stripes, Outkast and Soundgarden make the cut, but Oasis, Billy Idol and The Black Crowes miss out

Legendary session musicians Carol Kaye and Nicky Hopkins are also in

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Sonible at Producer Week 2025: From EQing and de-essing to limiting and beyond: Discover intelligent processing for smooth mixing workflows

Sonible's AI-powered systems supercharge signal processing and adapt to your audio so you can move with creative momentum

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“Make sure your DAW's workflow doesn't impede your creativity - make it your customised, happy place to make music”: New to making tracks? Start here

Want to make a track from scratch but don't know where to begin? We'll show you

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“It provided a blueprint for the ecosystem we swear by today”: How music production became accessible to all thanks to a handful of innovators

We sat down to write a track with our laptop, and pondered how we got here? Maybe via our spare bedroom…or even a kitchen?

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Bitwig at Producer Week 2025: “The perfect way to expand Bitwig out of your computer and into the real world”: Why Bitwig Connect 4/12 is the final piece of their ultra-modern vision for music production

Bitwig’s new interface grants home producers ultimate control over both hardware and software universes

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u-he at Producer Week 2025: "Our plugins are not only fun to use, but they have more than enough depth to satisfy the most discerning musicians, composers and producers"

Discover the latest offerings from u-he, including their first forays into the world of hardware…

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“He’s all right, he’s on tip-top form. We can’t wait": Noel and Liam Gallagher perform together behind closed doors for the first time in 16 years

Want to see the Oasis reunion? Too late. It’s already happened

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Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Full Bucket FB-3300

Classic synthesizer plugins offer a great entry point for unusual and rare synth designs, and this Korg design is one of the rarest

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“It has the ingenious ability to give you easy routing to external hardware with no re-patching”: Audient iD48 review

Audient’s iD range gets a new flagship audio interface with a potentially game-changing feature

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“If this was real, it would be really impressive. But since it’s not real, it’s really impressive": Watch the bonkers four-note piano

But there is a twist...

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Watch UK electronic artist Lawrence Hart build a track from scratch in his hardware-stuffed studio

The Domino-signed producer walks us through the workflow behind his debut album, Come In Out the Rain

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