David Byrne 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

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

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

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

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

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

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

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

I made my entire first tape using Beats headphones - the studio headphones and halfway through the second one, because I finally started making a home studio. But I record and make all my beats with the Beats headphones.

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.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

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 a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.