Adam Young Quotes

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

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

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

A lot of people have said 'people should see you work in the studio,' because a lot of people don't realize I'm an actual engineer. I don't walk in and have some guy grab the board. I have my own studio and soldered every wire in the studio.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.

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.

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

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

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.

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

I could talk about technique, theory and gear for days!

Every time we go into the studio and use a different engineer or producer I try to look, listen and learn their approach. That has helped with the gear I look for to use live and in the studio.

I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

I like tweaking the studio and wiring things up almost as much as making music, so that's kind of a hobby of mine, in and of itself. I don't like to collect gear that I know I'm not going to use, though.

I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted to record a track.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

I wanted to be on American TV so much. I didn't park DJ'ing; I just sort of ended up becoming more of a studio guy. I had a bit more money and I could buy every little piece of equipment and drum machine that had just come out - I've got quite a collection now - and I continued to collect music.

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.