Henry Walter may be seated in a spacious Los Angeles recording studio, but he’s still having audio trouble. A full digital workstation sits about five feet behind him as he scoots around the room on a swivel chair, trying to fix the feedback coming from his laptop. “I haven’t opened Zoom in, like, a month,” he says with a sigh as he presses a few buttons on his keyboard. Once he finds the problem, he triumphantly puts his hands in the air. “I think we did it.”

There’s a charming bit of irony in watching one of the most prolific and successful producers in the music industry fumble with his audio output. Since starting his production career in 2008, Walter — better known by his moniker, Cirkut — has been behind some of this century’s biggest hits, helping to write and produce massive singl

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