John Abercrombie Quotes

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

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

The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.

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

We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.

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.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

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 usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

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

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

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

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.