DIY Recording Quotes

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.

There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.

Boygenius' was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It's been crazy.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

I used to not really know any other people when I was young that wanted to play music - that's why I learned everything myself. As a result, you kind of naturally become an engineer of sorts, because you've got to learn how to record everything.

I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.

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

Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.

There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

I bought some equipment and then I started recording real heavy, in my room, when I was like 16.

I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

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.

It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself.

My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income.

A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

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.

I've always recorded at home. That's been part of what it's about to me. I've never been the kind of guy who rents a studio.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

The first two My Morning Jacket records were basically demos.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.