Albini in The Stranger

SHELLAC - Steve Albini (left) and band.

He talks about The Ex, In Utero and Jesus Lizard...

What's the single most important piece of advice you would give people wanting to teach themselves how to record bands?

Read first, then experiment. Both are important and ignoring one in favor of the other guarantees that you will waste a lot of time reinventing the wheel, or worse, reinventing a bunch of tired clichés and hack-job stuff.