Johnny Thunders Quotes

We always did our own mixing.

I recorded 'Play God' in a shed. I don't know how we got it to sound as good as it did.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

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 enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

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

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.

A lot of people have said 'people should see you work in the studio,' because a lot of people don't realize I'm an actual engineer. I don't walk in and have some guy grab the board. I have my own studio and soldered every wire in the studio.

Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

Producing is getting the performances, tracking it, making sure all the parts are there. Mixing is when you take the finished work, and you make sure all the levels are right. It's putting all the parts together.

You do need money to make a good demo; you do need a bit of financial support.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.

I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

My studio was built with a team of experts to record the sitar at the highest level possible, and I'm very happy with the results.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

Rock shows are loud, so I try to use a sound that is warm on the high frequencies.

For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career.