February 25, 2024:
Old meets new.
There was a time, thirty years past, when I'd spend hours crawling under desks and behind racks patching up new gear, cleaning and demagnetizing tape heads, soldering patchbay cables, driving to music stores to audition basses or buy new synth modules.
Today nearly all the preparatory work is in the computer, auditioning virtual instruments, or, less commonly, processor plugins. I have all the hardware I need.
There's still crawling under and behind things. I loved it then, I hate it now. It makes my body hurt.