Noel Redding Quotes

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

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 try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

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.

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.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

'Close To The Edge,' we actually had played it from beginning to end before we recorded it in the studio. So we knew how long it was, and we knew it would fit on the album fine, so we didn't do any editing.

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

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.