Anoushka Shankar Quotes

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.

I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

It's amazing what you can do in your bathroom! I would do vocals and stuff on my computer that would need to be sent to London or New York for things to be added on, and I was thinking they always say you sound good in the bathroom - but then I'd kick the bin, or someone in the next room would flush the chain or something and I'd be like 'oh no!'

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

I can record auditions from my office in my home.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.