OK, so there was a delay.

Sorry to be out of touch so long. It's a long story. I'll update more later, but I wanted to give you all the lowdown:

1. New studio is nearly completed. (I know, I say that all the time.) But I'll actually be dismantling the old Flying Blanket and moving into the new digs in about ten days. the big Neve and the BCM-10 are powered up and running fine, and the Studers have taken their places in the control rooms, fully refurbed and ready to have me punch you in a hundred and fifty times.

2. Doing my first record on the dreaded Pro Tools for the last week or so. (Well, it all got recorded to tape, of course, then dumped into the computer for mixing.) Still mixing on the venerable Amek console, of course - the PT is really just like a very organized tape machine for me right now. So I can pretty confidently say: analog tape copied into Pro Tools sounds like...well, sounds like something that's not nearly as cool as tape. I'm enjoying the automation and the ability to really organize the tracks, and I like being able to mute all of the tape hiss in quiet parts by editing it out, but overall, I of course like my old school way of doing things better. Plus, I don't know that it helps me to make better records to be able to micromanage kick drum hits (you know, first three were a little wimpy, last couple were too loud). It just made me spend four hours moving squiggly lines around. And does the record benefit from it? I don't know, maybe. You know, with tape, because the micromanagement is impossible or at least more difficult, you stop listening with a microscope and listen in a more general way, which I greatly prefer and I think it makes for records with a better feeling. You start obsessing over a bunch of sonic minutia and you start losing the big picture. I had to sort of reset my brain a couple of times because I got in too deep and started losing focus of what the song was about. i think this weekend I've finally sort of found the balance.
All in all...some cool features...but I need the heft of a tape machine, thanks.