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Ben Rogerson

“How can I play machines like they're instruments? How do I play these machines the same way I play a piano or guitar?”: Jack Antonoff reveals the two vintage delay units and classic ‘80s synth that provide the secret sauce on Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild

Sabrina Carpenter performs onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images).

Jack Antonoff says that the key to producing Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter’s 2025 hit, was working out how to blend two noticeably different ‘feels’, and that two vintage tape delay units helped him to do it.

“The feel of a song is not only what people play, but it’s how you mix them together,” Antonoff tells Mix with Masters in a new Behind the Track video. “And this was such a delicate balance of that”.

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