“My favourite, secret plugin on the planet… it just adds more snap and clarity”: Kanye West and Jay-Z producer Anthony Kilhoffer on the budget bitcrusher he used on In Paris

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from hearing pro producers talk about their favourite music software, it’s that it’s not always the latest and most expensive plugins that they prize the most.

Anthony Kilhoffer is the latest person to illustrate this point. Alongside Hit-Boy, Kanye West and Mike Dean, he produced West and Jay-Z’s In Paris, one of the standout tracks from the duo’s 2011 album, Watch The Throne.