2022.02.25 - Blabbermouth - Excerpt from interview in Australia (Slash)

Slash Had A 'Hard Time' With 'Everything Sounding Really Rubbish' In Early Days Of Digital Recording

During Slash's February 25 press event with members of the Australian media, the Guns N' Roses guitarist was asked what the "biggest adaptation" has been for him in the nearly four decades that he has been involved in the music industry. He responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net): "I sort of have always just done what it is that I do and it's never really fit in with whatever the industry standard is anyway, so it's always sort of been difficult. But the biggest adaptation has really been getting through that whole digital craze, when it really kicked in with MP3s and Pro Tools first coming around and everybody just going into this sort of phase of, like, 'Look at all the possibilities. It's amazing. It's genius.' Which, technically, it really is — the things that we've been able to achieve are amazing. But then a lot of stuff sort of got kicked to the side when that happened, and a lot of it was the integrity of sound, the integrity of the warmth of what we used to really enjoy about analog. Now with digital, they actually have made it so that they recreated the warmth of analog in digital, which is great. But there was a period there where everything was sounding really rubbish, and I was having a hard time with that one because everybody was on that bandwagon and it was hard to find people that weren't. So, yeah, that was the biggest adaptation for me."

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slash-had-a-hard-time-with-everything-sounding-really-rubbish-in-early-days-of-digital-recording/

It appears all of these interviews come from the Australian press conference:

2022.03.01 - Wall of Sound - Interview with Slash
2022.02.25 - The Project TV - Interview with Slash
2022.02.25 - Australian Musician - Slash Shy About Sharing His Song Ideas
2022.03.04 - What's My Scene - Interview with Slash