Adrian Younge Quotes

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. I wonder if it's going to go back to that. Sometimes I think it has to. As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds.

I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

Every record I've ever done with Tool has been on tape.

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love the analog approach. Sonically, I connect to that.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.

My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic!

I have a Yamaha YC-45D organ in my studio. It's actually Terry Riley's favorite keyboard, so if you find old clips of him on YouTube, he's usually playing one of these.

When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.