Jim Root Quotes

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

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Maybe I'm just stubborn about learning new things - I can't stand learning new programs - but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I'm using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.

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

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.

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

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

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.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

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

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