Benny Blanco is one of the 21st century's most successful producers and songwriters, having sat behind the boards for chart-topping hits from Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey, among others.
One might assume, given his track record, that Blanco knows his way around a DAW or two. As it turns out, though, the Virginia-born producer spent much of the early part of his career blissfully unaware of some rather fundamental functionality in his music-making software of choice - and astonishingly, it was precisely this lack of know-how that ended up shaping the sound of several internationally successful hits.
