Daniel Lanois & Pharrell Williams at Home in the Studio | ARTST TLK™ Ep. 7 Full | Reserve Channel

can record anywhere, unusual rooms as good, kitchens are good

tall skinny hallways are particularly good for guitar amps, with the amp at one end and the mic further back (the hallway amplifies the amp)

The Edge went as far as measuring the hallway in Slane Castle that they used to record his amp

there’s an energy to be had when recording at a special location – “moment of strike”

he has a beat orphanage, a melody orphanage, and a lyrics orphanage of ideas that haven’t found a song home yet

if something raises its hand and says “i am the hook”, or “i am the melody”, or “i am the front of the picture” then then i will pay attention to that and try and add to that either in union or by harmonic compliment

late at night we are satisfied with slower rhythm – the Bob Dylan “Mercy” record was recorded and mixed at night, for a slow, dripping album

some of the bi-products in a day are more interesting than the thing we’ve been working on for 3 or 4 days

talks about sampling, manipulating those samples, then sampling again (I believe he’s referring to his Prime Time hardware delay from 1978) so in the end it’s not like an overdub, but more like an expansion of what exists in the track

Daniel Lanois & Pharrell Williams at Home in the Studio