I was under the impression that one could only do real-time stuff with analog tech in this day and age, but apparently people still use tape recorders and stuff.
That's just outside of everything I can imagine. I work in signal processing and everything around here is always immediately sampled and discretized.
I see, yeah, i am repairing a 16 channel tape machine right now. it's really nice.
For me it's about the recording and mixing process itself. I have diagnosed ADHD and i have a really hard time to focus on the production when i am working on my PC. I dont commit, i always tweak and i dont really care about the big view of the song because there is always some detail i can polish for the next 3 hours.
On a mixer and tape, i can turn down the lights and just sit there and listen and record. I dont care about the analog sound, i dont care about the inherent noise, i only care about the fact that i can sit down and actually be write music. I can basically do it all without even opening my eyes.
production is not distribution. also there are plenty of analog options to musicians if they want to go that route.