Jim James Quotes

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

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.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

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

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 bought some equipment and then I started recording real heavy, in my room, when I was like 16.

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 knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

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.

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

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 did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

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 have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.

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

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