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I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

I use Pro Tools version 9 LE at home and I take that on the road with me.

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

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool if I recorded stuff not just on my phone.

I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

I had been using a 4-track and a digital 8-track in the '90s, and it was this huge complicated thing. But GarageBand is right there.

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

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.

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.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

I record all the time.

My dad got me the same mic I use on everything now - this $200 mic from Guitar Center.

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

Pro Tools rules. You get the opportunity to try more things because you don't waste so much time trying to get the perfect take.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.