Audio Setup Quotes

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

My dad got me the same mic I use on everything now - this $200 mic from Guitar Center.

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.

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

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

I have a whole room fully dedicated to playing games. Special chair on the ground with the speakers in it. The whole thing.

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

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.

To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?