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Date: February 21, 2004
Title: For Musicians, Solid Walls Make Good Neighbors
Source: NY Times
Press Article
This is an excerpt from an article about soundproofing.
Some musicians said home studios and computer equipment were making recording quieter. Richard Bernstein, lead guitarist for Rammstein, a German heavy metal group, said the recording process was less collaborative now, more a solitary plinking on a computer keyboard than a group playing effort.
"You don't have to listen loud anymore," said Mr. Bernstein, whose concerts feature feats of pyrotechnics.
Music today is "everyone is cooking in his own kitchen by himself," he said, in his home studio on the first floor of a former firehouse on Lafayette Street in Manhattan. "It used to be five guys playing together, but that doesn't happen as much anymore."
"You can do everything without other people's presence," Mr. Bernstein said.