Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

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.

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

I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

I can record auditions from my office in my home.

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.

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.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

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

Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

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

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

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 don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

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

Having my own studio at home is a dream, as I have a totally sound-proof room I can escape to when I need to write, and I have an impeccable room to record in.

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

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.