Roger McGuinn Quotes

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.

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

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.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

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

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

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

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.

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

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

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 had been using a 4-track and a digital 8-track in the '90s, and it was this huge complicated thing. But GarageBand is right there.

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 had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

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

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.

Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that's where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn't have to record a song multiple times to make it better.

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.

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

It used to be you would need a couple grand to make a record at a studio. Now, you can do it on freaking GarageBand.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.