I've been to a large number of commercial studios in the last couple of years and every single tape machine is sitting outside the control room in a corridor, gathering dust. I think the will be analog purists who will always go with analog technology as much as possible and record to analog tape. One of the problems of recording to analog tape is that tape is simply no longer manufactured. You can't find it anywhere, so that's going to be an ongoing problem. Everybody who insists on recording to 2-inch tape, for example, has got the problem of not being able to find newly manufactured tape so they have to usually use second-hand tape, or re-using tape that's been used before. That is a difficulty. My personal preference: I'm not unhappy with the way digital sounds. I think in certain instances with budget digital equipment, there is a nastiness there. It's very true to say that digital technology still has a way to go. It's quite a new science, but if you've got good converters, good digital consoles working for you, you can get great results. I honestly believe that some of my best work has been done in digital. In terms of recording format preference, I've done a fair amount of work with Cubase (originally Nuendo). I've just upgraded to Cubase 6. Quite a lot of stuff in ProTools as well because it is so evident out there. So many people use it. As I've said in A.S.S.R., I've kinda started in the computer age to really use the mouse as little as possible. When I'm recording I love to use an engineer - PJ Olsson, leader singer in the band and savvy guy on the computer. I feel more comfortable working with an engineer and just playing the more traditional producer role. I am still putting my engineering knowledge into practice, but I don't like to sit at the computer screen when I'm trying to make music.