In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.
I haven't done a lot of voice work, but I know that a lot of shows will just bring in the actors individually, and they will just do what is on the paper. You miss out on that connection of having everyone there.
My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.
My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
Every record I've ever done with Tool has been on tape.
The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.
I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.
I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.
I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
We always just go out there and do what we do. That's the way we approach all of our records.
To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.
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.
I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
On the song 'Step,' the chorus is Ezra is singing into my laptop with the laptop microphone, and you can hear the trains going by my apartment, but we liked the quality of that recording.
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
I like the continuity of singing my lines together instead of going line by line.
I'd never record digitally. It's not because its' a horrible way to record, it's just not the best way to record my music, because my music is rawer, darker and a little more nostalgic.
