...It means I knew how to push a button and not f' things up in the process... HEY BRO That's the trick, isn't it? Assuming you have talented performers, the job of the tracking engineer is simply to not {censored} anything up. Of course, as I'm finding out, that's far easier said than done. In audio, it still takes an experienced professional just to not make a bollocks of things -- never mind get something that sounds great.