Recording sessions from the 1980s to 2025

With new strings on my Ovation acoustic guitar, I went to Freiburg today to record new Human Shields demos with my friend Jörg Benzing. The last time I did serious recording was in 2016 for the Human Shields EP "Défense de jouer". Those sessions were dramatically different from recordings I made in the 1980s and 1990s, live in a radio-station studio or with twentieth-century four-track or eight-track recorders. But even in the last nine years, it seemed to me today, the technology has made another leap forward, with intuitive on-screen editing making everything dramatically more efficient and productive (at least when someone knows how to operate the software, as Jörg does). (Andrew Shields, #111words, 11 January 2025)