Eugene Ormandy Quotes

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

My profession is called record production.

I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.

I'm a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That's what I do. But I've gotten on the mic a few times in my career; people seem to like it, so I'll do it again here and there. But that's really not my thing.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

Producing is getting the performances, tracking it, making sure all the parts are there. Mixing is when you take the finished work, and you make sure all the levels are right. It's putting all the parts together.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

To record the perfect album. That is my dearest wish.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.