The Wizard

Know why you’re in the studio and what you want to use it for. It's just for pop music. One of the greatest studio wizards of the recording era was pianist Glenn Gould.

Studio wizardry, the idea that the mastery of technology and unconventional thinking can produce things no one else can do, is part of pop culture. It applies to pop music in general and some very specific figures and albums: George Martin producing the Beatles; Q-Tip; the Steely Dan discography. These and other musicians absolutely deserve this reputat…