Eddi Reader Quotes

Having my own studio at home is a dream, as I have a totally sound-proof room I can escape to when I need to write, and I have an impeccable room to record in.

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 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.

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.

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

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

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

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

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!'

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

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

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 wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.

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.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

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

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

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.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.