It's no secret that ever since the internet took over our lives that we live in an "I want it now" culture. That is the opposite of how I started recording music and running a studio. It was 30-plus years ago when I began a quest to finally learn recording. As an artist in a band, I'd made four albums with other people producing and engineering (including John Baccigaluppi, my partner in Tape Op). While setting a mic preamp level, using a compressor, or figuring out how to route the inputs and outputs of a tape deck to a console were things I grasped the concepts of, I had no idea how others did these things or what the "right" way was to do them. Sure, I wanted simple and quick answers, but I never got them. As I've stated before, I would go to the library for "recording" books, buy magazines at local bookstores, and hope to find answers. I would read a whole book about microphones, yet I'd still be looking for information on techniques. It might not be what some of you want to hear, but the reality is that amassing this knowledge took a lot of time and effort.