Quotes About Sound

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

Maybe I'm just stubborn about learning new things - I can't stand learning new programs - but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I'm using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

My live sound does not work in the studio, which is a completely different animal. Every little thing is detrimental to the sound. And if someone moves a mic, you've lost it. It's pretty much a case of 'lock the door and set up a police line.'

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

We were never happy with the way cello was recorded, and we wanted to experiment in the studio to make the cello rock as much as possible. On the second album, we had great help from Bob Ezrin, who helped us develop our sound even more.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

Many music directors have studios at home.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.