John Corabi Quotes

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

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.

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.

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

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

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

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

I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

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.

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.

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

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!

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

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

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

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.

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

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.