I'm Always Looking For Older Equipment And

There's An Infinite Amount Of Possibilities And Detours And Things That Can Distract You From Actually Just Performing The Song And Having Whatever Emotion That's Invested Into The Song Come Through In The Recording.

Technology Was Something I Avoided When I Started Out - I Didn't Even Have Electric Guitars. Only Played Acoustic. But After A While, I Realized That It's Important To Embrace Things That Are Available In Your Time, And Try To Do Something Different With Them.

Whether You're Aware Of It Or Not, Any Kind Of Collage Idea Becomes A Part Of How You See The World Once You Incorporate Media And Internet And Video Games And All These Things.

I'm Always Looking For Older Equipment And Ways Of Recording, But You Can't Escape The Fact That It's All Going To Be Digitized And Reduced. I Do Think Music Sounds Better When It's On Tape And More Simply Recorded. I've Been Arguing With People For 10 Years About Tape Versus Digital, And I Believe Tape Is Absolutely Essential In Getting The Sound That's Conducive To The Enjoyment Of Music. I Wonder If It's Going To Go Back To That. Sometimes I Think It Has To. As Music Becomes More Computer-based, It's Lost Some Emotional Impact.

For The Records I've Work On Over The Last 10 Years, I Get Sent The Really Compressed Version And The Non-compressed Version, And Oftentimes You End Up Going With The More Compressed One Because It's What People's Ears Are Attuned To. I Think The Bigger Problem Is Saturation And People Being Desensitized.