As far as I’m aware, you started with a very analog approach to recording…
Yeah, my first studio had an analog console in it — a Mackie 32-8. Eventually over time I added a whole stock of outboard, because if you want to record a drumkit you need a lot of different compressors. Also, if you long for a different vocal reverb, you had to have it. I think right about that time I first started using Steinberg Cubase for editing tracks by flying everything from my 16-track analog recorder to the computer and back again.