Bob Dylan Quotes

Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.

Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.

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

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

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

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

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

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

The room is the most important thing about recording.

Unsurprisingly, the most vocal opponents of new technologies are those who dominated the old.

When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.

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 recorded 'Play God' in a shed. I don't know how we got it to sound as good as it did.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

It's amazing what you can do in your bathroom! I would do vocals and stuff on my computer that would need to be sent to London or New York for things to be added on, and I was thinking they always say you sound good in the bathroom - but then I'd kick the bin, or someone in the next room would flush the chain or something and I'd be like 'oh no!'

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

Rock shows are loud, so I try to use a sound that is warm on the high frequencies.

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

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal. People keep thinking of professional music studios like they've always been this way for hundreds of years, but they're very much a child of the 70s. Even the interior is very 70s. Everything's brown and it's wood - somebody told me the wood panels are all by the same company. We're always mourning things that have died. It's a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there's this unwritten rule that they don't have windows, either.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.