How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music

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Explains how a studio accident led to the iconic gated reverb drum sound that defined 1980s music.

Linked by 22 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including engadget.com, landr.com, kef.com, themorningnews.org, bonedo.de.

Cited in 2 Wikipedia articles, including Gated reverb, Intruder (song).