Nowadays, in the ordinary recording studio, we can find total recall mixers, MIDI gear with hundreds of memories, automatized workstations, samplers with huge hard disks and powerful computers controlling everything, even the light of the vocal booth or the number of pizzas devoured by the band. However, with the renaissance of analog gear, tube equalizers, optocompressors, vintage mic preamps and refurbished guitar amps, we are immersed again in a helter-skelter heap of cables, buttons and switches. These devices have no memories, nor MIDI sockets.
People even change the traditional wiring setups and experiment in search of new sounds.
And top professionals in world-class studios are bypassing the channels of ultraexpensive consoles just for the luxury of recording directly to digital through the warmth of tubes. Gone are the days of the tape operators dressed in white. Nevertheless we are once again using photocopies and track sheets with 24 cells in groups of 8 to keep everything under control.