Adrian Smith Quotes

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.

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

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

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

My live sound does not work in the studio, which is a completely different animal. Every little thing is detrimental to the sound. And if someone moves a mic, you've lost it. It's pretty much a case of 'lock the door and set up a police line.'

Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.

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

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

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 like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

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

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

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.

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

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 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.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

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.

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

My studio was built with a team of experts to record the sitar at the highest level possible, and I'm very happy with the results.

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!'