Peter Jackson Quotes

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

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

I went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York, so I'm pretty comfortable in engineering my own stuff.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

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

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.

Marx never saw an electric light bulb.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Maybe I'm just stubborn about learning new things - I can't stand learning new programs - but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I'm using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.

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

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.

The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

I didn't grow up working on 24-track - the first two Taste albums were eight-track and we always had tracks left over - we couldn't believe it, either!