If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.
One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
The room is the most important thing about recording.
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.