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It#8217;ll be 20 years ago this June when we started building this studio together. We built it right as we were getting ready to doThe Crimson Idol record. When we built it, it was state-of-the-art, but it was a tape-based analog system. As we went through the next ten years, we started getting into digital and things like that. It was only about six or seven years ago I got rid of all the digital stuff and we record in a very old school way now, all on tape. It#8217;s more expensive to work like that but tape gives you a sound and a thump that you just cannot get on digital. If you want to make a really expensive-sounding record, there#8217;s only one way to do it, so when you listen to what we do, you can hear it on those records. When somebody says #8216;Oh, that#8217;s a lot of money to do it,#8217; well you know what? I#8217;m doing these for me, not for anybody else! It sounds good to me and that#8217;s what I want. Everybody says #8216;Why don#8217;t you do it on Pro Tools? Kids can#8217;t tell the difference!#8217; Yeah, well, I can tell the difference. There#8217;s a dimension and a thump that comes out of those records you just don#8217;t get any other way.

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