Dave Haywood Quotes

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

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

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

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

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

Shangri-La is one of the few studios in which you can sit in the control room and open a window behind you. You can feel the light and the air coming off the ocean. You can have a musical world in front of you and the natural world behind you.

As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.

For my first album, I thought it was most important for people to hear my voice and to not let it be drowned out by too many lasers and other sounds.