{"id":88259,"date":"2021-10-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=88259"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:18:52","slug":"morello-recorded-guitars-using-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/morello-recorded-guitars-using-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Morello recorded almost all of the guitars on his upcoming album using his iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Image Credit: Travis Shinn via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kanye-west-inspired-tom-morello-record-solo-album-1237808\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">After hearing Kanye West records vocals using the Voice Memos app on his iPhone, Tom Morello was inspired and overcame his creative block.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After Rage Against the Machine&#8217;s 2020 world reunion tour was placed on hold due to the pandemic, guitarist Tom Morello found himself stuck at home with little inspiration or resources to record new music. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kanye-west-inspired-tom-morello-record-solo-album-1237808\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, Morello said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I didn\u2019t pick up a guitar for the first six months. For the first time as a creative person, I felt wholly uninspired. It was made worse by the fact that while I have a studio in my home, I don\u2019t know how to work it. There\u2019s an engineer that normally does that.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kanye-west-inspired-tom-morello-record-solo-album-1237808\/\">Tom Morello to Rolling Stone<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Morello says that inspiration came thanks to Kanye West:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I read a quote by Kanye West where he said he had recorded the vocals for a couple of his hit records on the Voice Memos [app] on his iPhone. I was like, \u2018You can do that?\u2019 And I started just playing guitar straight into my iPhone. I\u2019d send the guitar riffs off to various producers, engineers, and artists around the world. That re-light the pilot light.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kanye-west-inspired-tom-morello-record-solo-album-1237808\/\">Tom Morello to Rolling Stone<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Morello&#8217;s third solo album <em>The Atlas Underground Fire<\/em> drops this Friday with collaborations from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Bring Me the Horizon, Chris Stapleton, Damian Marley and Mike Posner, who all recorded their parts remotely. Talking on the sound quality of recording guitar parts via the Voice Memos app on the iPhone, Morello continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I think my sound quality has been degraded since day one. I\u2019ve aimed for that. [Laughs] I prefer a degraded sound quality. If you\u2019ve heard the record, 95% of the guitars on that record were recorded on my phone. I have an engineering credit on the record since I hit the red button on my phone to record the guitar.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kanye-west-inspired-tom-morello-record-solo-album-1237808\/\">Tom Morello to Rolling Stone<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked if he was finally going to learn how to use the recording studio in his home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>[Laughs] Now I don\u2019t ever need to. Now there\u2019s no need. 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