Caroline Corr Quotes

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

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 bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

I use Pro Tools version 9 LE at home and I take that on the road with me.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.

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 have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

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 have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.