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.
When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.
Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.
However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10.
I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response to the limited edition colors so far speaks for itself - the fans want the opportunity to match their headphones to their personal style, and we definitely want to make sure to give them what they want.
Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.
I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.
And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward.
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.
