I still have an old Fostex R8 reel-to-reel which still works along with a box of Ampex 456 7" reels of tape.

Now and again I will run a digital track through it to warm up the recording or do a complete 8 track recording like I used to do all the time. It teaches me to think before recording and plan out everything.

That is in fact the greatest thing about BIAB - before recording we can have the whole song structure worked out.

Kevin