Interviews

WE TALK AT LENGTH WITH RECORD-MAKERS ABOUT HOW THEY MAKE RECORDS.

Behind The Gear with  Roland's Paul McCabe

Interviews | No. 173

Behind The Gear with Roland's Paul McCabe

By Alex Ruger

I recently had a chance to chat with Paul McCabe, Senior Vice President of Research and Innovation at Roland Future Design Lab, to talk about their new moonshot, Project LYDIA, as well as his views on AI in music that underpins its development. We first met at the 2026 NAMM Show where I...

Sphere Electronics
Apr 11, 2026 NO. 126 Interview

Sphere Electronics: A Brief History of this Console Company

Lead photo text: Author Wally Wilson behind the first Sphere multitrack console at Creative Workshop, Nashville, TN, 1976.

Recently there's been renewed interest in Sphere consoles, and the history of Sphere Electronics. With Don McLaughlin having sadly passed away in 2014, I guess...

Taylor Deupree
Apr 11, 2026 NO. 126 Interview

Taylor Deupree: Art of the Ephemeral

I still remember my first experience hearing Taylor Deupree's Northern on a winter night back in 2007. Reaching into a stack of borrowed CDs in my apartment, I randomly selected a disc for some musical accompaniment while washing the dishes. The album began so stealthily that it...

The Many Faces of Luke Temple
Apr 11, 2026 NO. 126 Interview

The Many Faces of Luke Temple

Here Photo: At The Old Western waiting for the rest of the musicians...

Luke Temple wears several masks and many hats. Since 2005 he has released five solo records under his own name, four as Here We Go Magic, and his latest release, Blast Off Through the Wicker, under the moniker...

Modern Loudness
Apr 11, 2026 NO. 126 Interview

Modern Loudness

How many of you ladies and gentlemen are making music these days intended for listening primarily on a five CD changer set to shuffle? If that's your audience, you might feel forced to use multiband compressors and brick wall limiters to squeeze every bit of life out of your mixes....

Ade Fenton
Apr 13, 2026 NO. 125 Interview

Ade Fenton: Producing Gary Numan

Ade Fenton is a creative, masterful cutting-edge engineer, producer, DJ, and composer based in the UK. He has worked with Gary Numan on his past four studio albums, Savage (Songs from a Broken World), Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), Dead Son Rising, and Jagged, as well as having...

Matt Chamberlain
Apr 13, 2026 NO. 125 Interview

Matt Chamberlain: Perfect Timing

Over the last 20 years Matt Chamberlain has contributed to a staggering variety of recordings including David Bowie, Tori Amos, Frank Ocean, Miranda Lambert, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Fiona Apple, and Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, to name a few. Seriously, we're just...

Gary Numan
Apr 11, 2026 NO. 125 Interview

Gary Numan: Sonic Reinvention

Having recently released his twenty-second studio album, Savage (Songs from a Broken World), Gary Numan is no stranger to the recording process. Produced by Ade Fenton (see his interview this issue), it is a soaring, epic, electronic dark groove record, with the unique lyrics and...