Devin – HuffPost 4.10.12

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Devin: I think recording on your own is really cool because it worked for me. I know a lot of musicians. If you’re in New York, everyone is a musician. You hear about all the terrible things, they tell you something and you think that’s a terrible idea. Like, I’m going to waste $5,000, go into a studio, just be rushed, and have a terrible recording, that’s just not worth it. I think I spent $1,000, but this is a while ago. I bought an Apple computer, speakers, and an M-Box, ProTools and that’s it. That’s all you need. I had a guitar and plugged directly in. You just can record. When you record and you can hear your voice back, you hear what you’re doing, there is no lying or anything. You hear yourself and you hear what you’re capable of doing. Then you can work on that privately, with no other pressure, in your room. Then you have a recording that you can give to people, it’s real proof and it has helped me. That’s the reason that I got French Kiss.