Audio Techniques Quotes

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

It was fun trying to use a few different voices for the vocal track on 'Country Heroes.'

In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras of recorded music at the same time.

I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.