Jim James Quotes

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.

I can record auditions from my office in my home.

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

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

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

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.

I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with.

I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

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

My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

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

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.

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

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

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

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.