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"The greatest guitar sounds on records have no premeditation to them at all."
"More than a live recording; closer to a life recording."
"Watching Kanye record live, what a wild era!"
"Those are the best sessions when you do 77 takes and they end up on take two."
"I found myself thinking about memories on each song. What happened at a recording session? Where was I at that point in my life? What was I going through?"
"No one has ever caught the power and energy of you guys live on tape or on vinyl."
"This record already had tones of things that we were already feeling."
"Nas did this in literally one take... New York State of Mind definitely is perfect."
"The most vulnerable piece of music ever recorded."
"I've done two of the best records I've done in the last 15 years since I've been here in Nashville"
"When it comes to recording vocals, having the right microphone is king."
"RCA Victor was the first to make long-playing records."
"We would not have got that record if everybody wasn't prepared to just keep at it until we got it."
"If you were playing on a Steely Dan record, every bar of every song just had to groove, it had to be great."
"Some of this is obviously recorded in the studio, others live at Western Approaches Command."
"Super cool, let's say you're recording yourself and it's a guitar solo and you're not, you want to just punch in a certain section."
"One of the most special times in my entire life was creating this record."
"Zeppelin's fifth album, Houses of the Holy, was actually recorded in multiple locations, technically beginning in December of '71 at London's Island Studios."
"Fantastic records can be made on rudimentary equipment."
"Elvis was finally given the chance to record 'That's All Right Mama'."
"That's where you really gotta, you can't stop the session and say, 'No, I need six takes to do six tracks the way I originally thought about it.' You just have to forget about it and go."
"Recording song for the album, I just gotta remember to throw up the camera at all times because I forget but you know it's magic happening."
"The freaking Emit 30s were letting the magic happen because this recording 'Spooked' is a magical recording."
"We did pretty much record the album still a bit like that in a way."
"Recording a song for a Sims game also allows them to reach a potential new audience."
"These people were, you know, they saw that I took that time out my life to join them and make sure that that record was about Liverpool, the people on it were working in Liverpool, everybody was a part of the community."
"We all had cassette players; we'd record, flip it over, and listen to these cassettes all week long until the next week's show."
"I myself in the studio, I'm like half one of the songs I recorded, I was crying in it, literally like there were tears running down my face as I was recording it."
"There's very few recordings that are so monumentally important in the repertoire as this one."
"Their engineers invented a lot of the techniques, microphones, recording methodology that we now take for granted."
"A lot of those records were cut in one take, live, just one take, and that stuff was impressive."
"We recorded a record that I think is one of the best that we did on that trip."
"We could add on a little bit of sparkle to our lead vocal."
"I'm using the pedal to record into the empty clip slot of the armed track."
"I wanted to do it exactly like you would if you recorded in the vocal originally."
"That's the kind of characteristic I like, that essentially is exactly what I would associate with a field recording from the 1930s."
"It's never been a better time to record your own stuff."
"It really is a night and day. You really can't compare the two; the openness, the depth, the sheen, the polish, the punch, everything is there."
"You can go into the description right now and download a PDF that gives you an overview of all five steps."
"Having your home studio set up properly is more important now than ever before."
"We've got double tracking which kind of gives it that thickness and depth."
"The Quad Cortex is way more convenient for recording than the camper."
"Everything the Pumpkins ever recorded from Gish to Zeitgeist was straight to tape, no click."
"The first song the band recorded would be the huge hit 'Round and Round', and that song was set to be the one that convinced Atlantic to sign the group."
"The core of this library is my Yamaha recording custom kit which we sampled at the amazing sounding middle farm studios."
"Dressed in colorful stripes and polka dots, they put classics like 'With a Little Help from My Friends', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', and 'Lovely Rita' to tape."
"I was 15 years old at the time, so that was a big deal for me, you know, that somebody was going to record one of my songs."
"My girl was recorded in November 1964 and was released a month later."
"Then we're going to record some synths, also some real bass, some real guitars, and also some vocals."
"We've really only been recording and mixing for 15 minutes, and these are the tones we're getting."
"It all starts with a nice recording."
"A lot of recording purists might say that you need to mic up to get the real warmth, but that's really not the case."
"If you remember recording your favorite songs off of the radio and just hoping and praying that the DJ wouldn't talk over the start or the end, you're gonna dig this channel."
"I would like to consider my ad-libs to be the sprinkles to my vocal."
"The best problem to have is that you're recording so fast that the artist can't keep up."
"Recording your mixers can be one of the best ways to get yourself noticed as a DJ."
"It's a live recording; this is recorded lively."
"Whenever you're setting up your reverbs, ask yourself what kind of room do I imagine this instrument is in."
"Electric guitar is actually a pain in the bass to record."
"I never dreamed in my entire life that my own music would be recorded on a darn 8-track."
"It was the hardest song we ever had to record."
"Hopefully my process will give you some ideas for yours in order to help you figure out how you want to record your own piano."
"This fader is completely independent of that mix, that's really unusual and super handy when you're trying to track."
"There's something about being in a great sounding room that I've really come to appreciate."
"Analog tape has a long history in the music industry, going all the way back to its creation in the late '40s."
"You want to record different stuff and keep it fresh and keep it interesting."
"Another brilliant benefit of an electric ukulele is being able to record it directly."
"We did one take; that's the Michael Bland way."
"We just kept recording after KD2."
"If you got a great drum sound and a great vocal sound, you're pretty much dressed for anything."