Steve Albini: Self
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Steve Albini : Whenever I'm in a scenario where someone says "How many tracks have we got left?", my blood boils slightly because that's utterly the wrong question.
Stephen Scullion : Is 24 tracks the maximum?
Steve Albini : Oh no! 'Cause you can bounce things down and make space for more things or you can slave up another multitrack and then have infinite - literally infinite tracks, you know.
Stephen Scullion : Fuck that.
Steve Albini : I agree - fuck that!
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Steve Albini : None of that stuff bugs me by the way - like, if you're concerned that that ring is a problem, it's only a problem if you don't like it. If you don't like it, then it's a problem.
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Steve Albini : When I came to Chicago to go to college, I brought with me a guitar that I had bought at a pawn shop in Montana. It was a Mosrite The Ventures model, and I knew that it had some value, so I thought, "well, I'll trade this for a guitar that is newer and fancier". I made what is probably the worst deal ever for a guitar. I traded that guitar - the Mosrite The Ventures model guitar. I later found out it was an exceedingly early, rare, super-valuable one - I didn't know that at the time.
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Steve Albini : If we've got four days, it sort of obliges you guys to be super good, and on the ball with all this stuff.
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Steve Albini : I don't know what your state of readiness is, but if it's the sort of thing like: "Yeah, we should have some piano on there. Let me go figure out a piano part!" Like, that is gonna eat up an awful lot of time. And if that happens again and again and again, then there's literally no way we can do it.
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Steve Albini : If you're listening to it and you think "I don't like the way that sounds, but it'll probably be alright later", it probably *won't* be alright later.
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Steve Albini : "Sesh" - That's a word I use instead of "session", sometimes.
Stephen Scullion : We use that for going on the rip.