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To me, the magic of tape, analog, but tape, one of the most important things is the

track count. Okay, you have four tracks, you have eight tracks, 16, 24, maybe if you were really

rolling, you had 48, but you had finite number of tracks. So, you made decisions. In the writing

process, you're like, hey, we're recording

this album, the 16 track, 2 inch. Okay, well, you're not going to put like a bunch of stuff on there that,

well, we'll think about it later. We'll decide later. Right, right. That's one side of the magic of

tape, more so than the sound of it or whatever, whatever. Other things, when you get to the end of a take,

people are either hang on the control when they're coming in,

and you hit rewind, and you're just hanging, you're chilling.

You know, like things just moved at a different pace.

Yeah.

You know, so with that said, like, there was more time to, like, think think and, again, like, make decisions.

Like, when the tape's rewinding and, oh, yeah, that microphone doesn't look like it's in the same place anymore.

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