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DON’T LOOK BACK Despite the advances in digital recording, Scholz still considers himself an analog guy, but has admitted it’s no wonder USB inputs won out over tape machines and power- soaked amplifiers, since it’s cheap and easy to record digitally now, . Arguably, in the age of home recording, Boston’s debut resonates more than ever, in ways many musicians and engineers don’t realize. It showed it was possible to make great music outside of the record industry system, but its success was a double-edged sword. Recording has never been easier, but in the end it’s great songs that people remember, with the way it was made being a novelty. In that respect, music truly is more than a feeling. ToneReport.com 39