Articles by: Daniel Griffiths

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Daniel Griffiths is a veteran journalist who has worked on some of the biggest entertainment, tech and home brands in the world. He's interviewed countless big names, and covered countless new releases in the fields of music, videogames, movies, tech, gadgets, home improvement, self build, interiors and garden design. He’s the ex-Editor of Future Music and ex-Group Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Musician, Guitarist, Guitar World, Computer Music and more. He renovates property and writes for MusicRadar.com.

Articles by: Daniel Griffiths

The 10 drum machines that changed musical history

By Daniel Griffiths published 14 April 22

The incredible stories behind 10 landmark beat boxes that made music dance to a different drum

What’s included in Universal Audio UAD Spark? All the native UAD plugins explained

By Daniel Griffiths published 8 April 22

Find out exactly what $20 a month gets you

Dire Straits keyboard player Alan Clark: “When Mark Knopfler first played Money For Nothing, there was no ‘I Want My MTV’... the idea was mine”

By Daniel Griffiths published 10 March 22

From Dire Straits to Dylan, Clapton, Tina Turner and beyond, we meet the player, producer and musical director who’s worked with a who’s who of superstars

We think we’ve named every piece of gear in Calvin Harris’s studio

By Daniel Griffiths published 28 February 22

The DJ/producer’s estate agent inadvertently reveals the synths, outboard and guitars behind the hits…

Trombone Shorty: “In other places it might be guitars and all that stuff, but in New Orleans, brass is the king”

By Daniel Griffiths published 7 February 22

From playing for presidents to jamming with the greats. You name it, Shorty’s on the track...

5 tracks producers need to hear by... Daft Punk

By Daniel Griffiths published 4 January 22

Best of 2021: We say goodbye in the only way we know how: by selecting five moments of genre-defining brilliance from the men behind the masks

5 tracks producers need to hear by… Brian Eno

By Daniel Griffiths published 28 December 21

Best of 2021: In need of some inspiration? Draw yourself an oblique strategy card and treat your ears to the very best of the musician’s ‘non-musician’

5 tracks producers need to hear by… ABBA

By Daniel Griffiths published 27 December 21

Best of 2021: Think you know ABBA? Think again. There’s ABBA Gold... And then there’s ABBA Platinum...

‘Super-engineer’ Billy Hickey: “People get obsessed by the top of Ariana Grande’s voice and think there’s a lot of EQ shenanigans to get that, but that’s just her voice”

By Daniel Griffiths published 19 November 21

Ariana Grande’s must-have engineer for her last two albums on the state of play with 2021 studio sessions and how to get the hottest sounds for the biggest artists

10 times that music and videogames collided: the good, the bad… and the weird

By Daniel Griffiths published 1 November 21

“Kick, punch, it’s all in the mind…” We chart the rise and fall of the music game and pick out 10 landmark times music and games got it right… or more often didn’t

Yes keyboard giant Geoff Downes: “At one stage I had up to 28 keyboards out on the road - I filled up half a semi-truck on my own!”

By Daniel Griffiths published 30 September 21

“I think there was a bit of cockfighting going on! Certainly with Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman"

Keyboard legend Tony Kaye: “I get asked if I left Yes because of my disdain for the ‘new’ electronic gear - the Moog and the Mellotron - and there’s a lot of truth in that”

By Daniel Griffiths published 10 September 21

Most famous for his early work with (and subsequent returns to) prog giants Yes, the Hammond maestro is back with an album to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11