TYFTWD:1 - STUDIO ESSENTIALS

Here are a few of the things I never enter the studio without...




The Hoodie

Not only is it a simple and effective way to maintain a nice working temperature, it's always a nice thing to put the hoodie up and zone out in front of the mic. It's like a little bedroom you can wear.




The Handheld Recorder

Great for logging my lyrical and melodic ideas... I can go for a walk or hide out in a vacant room and work out the tough stuff without the self consciousness of doing it in front of other people.



The USB Drive

No more taking home rough mixes on CD... They take too long to burn, and they immediately become digital files as soon as I get them anyway. I leave at the end of the night with two tracks; one with scratch (rough) vocals and one without, so I can sing along into the aforementioned digital recorder.