[Jay Kahrs]

I dig analog too...it's more then just the rewind time. A properly aligned tape machine has so much depth & dimension it's sick...actually, it just sounds like a record!

I approach a DAW with the same mindset and it's not so bad. Nobody's forcing you to hit play after the 'instant' rewind. Sometimes I'll scrub back through the audio or just wait a couple seconds while I fiddle with something else like a producer panel. On the flip side, sometimes it's great to be able to hit stop and instantly start again. If there's a trainwreak nine bars into the take you can start again instantly while everyone's in the moment rather then hitting stop, rewind...wait 20 seconds for the reels to rock back to zero and then rolling again.