Drew
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Right on, then. Good luck! 
And re: digital, I think it's awesome and has made it significantly easier for guys like us to record good-sounding music. I do share your concern, though, that because it makes editing SO easy, there's a growing attitude that it's ok to rely on post-tracking editing to "fix" a performance, rather than justr getting it right in the first place. I suspect you and I have a VERY different production ethos (I'm more Devin Townsend/Steven Wilson to your 90s death metal), but I LIKE the little artifacts of a performance that make a part sound human, the little bit of string noise here and there, a bit of amp hum, a slightly loose feeling here and there, whatever - I want music to be recorded cleanly and played precisely, but I want it to sound like the work of a human being, too.
