How did you get started doing recordings?
In college I took an engineering class. I was a politics major but I just decided to take one thing that I thought might be interesting. It turned out to be really interesting. I wasn't really super into recording but it was a fun class. It was an 8 track analog recorder but I wound up gravitating toward the 4 track.
Do you have any idea why?
It was easier to manipulate. Initially, the 4 track was it. When I was in my bedroom I had to keep things really, really quiet. With 4 track you can make things sound loud even though they're really quiet. It's like the opposite of big, multitrack recording. Things sound puny but collectively they become a big, huge thing.
You were just concentrating on individual sounds and making them big?
Yeah.
Are you still using the TEAC 3440 [1/4" 4 track], that's on the album cover?
