C418 Quotes

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

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

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

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

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.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

What is auto-tune? I don't even know what auto-tune is.

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 use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

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.

I think everyone uses Auto-Tune.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

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.

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.