the transformers for his products. Transformers are like a black art, but also what gives these devices their character, so it's very important to get them right. We were having the worst time on the 1176 until we looked at these notes and there was a drawing, a tracing he did, and it was a one kilohertz square wave in exactly the same ringing and the next page was how he'd solved it. He spent a lot of his time doing transformer design and working with transformer folks and so he has pretty extensive design notebooks on what he did. If you look at the 1176 schematic, there are several layers of feedback and that's how we got it right. So what do you say to people that say "Well I need the analog." It must be an interesting conundrum for you. I don't mind talking about this, because we started Universal Audio knowing we were going to be doing both. I thought we'd start with 1176 hardware and it would taper down. It hasn't, it's gone up. If anything, we have sold 1176s and LA-2As rock steady since we released it 10+ years ago. It's a different customer and there are absolutely valid uses for both. One of the things I like about analog, and this doesn't have to be limited to analog but being more "old school," and I know my dad was the same way; you just want to grab a knob and not have to look