Brian Eno Quotes

When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

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.

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

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

We always did our own mixing.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

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.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.