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5. I grew up with analog tape and I'm still conversant with that...

...technology, though hardly anyone is using it anymore (including me). But I had to do a rescue job like this many years ago, and believe me, it was quite stressful. Nowadays I mostly use hard disk recording, but I still have to do the occasional ADAT transfer (ADAT was sort of a "bridge" technology from the '90s). However, I still like a lot of the old analog technology, and I have a studio with a few of the sought-after vintage pieces. (I wish I had known back then what was going to be really valuable--I wouldn't have sold or traded it!). I also track and mix on an analog desk with a basic automation package (faders and mutes). So I still have one foot in the old analog world.