In which “tech wizard” Tom Whitwell explains how modern trickery like the autotuner allows total incompetents to have hit records and why new equipment makes so many tracks sound the same. Plus … the recording methods of Maroon 5, Trevor Horn and Miles Davis, Neil Tennant’s memories of Dusty Springfield’s bizarre in-studio vocal technique and - David Hepworth’s favourite pop story - how part of a track by an obscure 1971 folk duo made ended up making a fortune via Madonna’s Ray Of Light.

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