Herb Alpert Quotes

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

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

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

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

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

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

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

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.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

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

I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

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

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

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 write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

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

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.