I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.
As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly.
My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
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 lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.
When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.
I've been singing quieter because I live in a thin-walled apartment.
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.
