Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.
The room is the most important thing about recording.
My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.
You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.
I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.
A good record transports you to another place.
My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
I'm against spending money to record.
I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.
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