In the past everything was recorded on to tape. Nothing was digital. If you have to redo a take, you had to really reconsider it. Musicians had to come to the studio with their “A” game. Redoing a take was very costly in an analogue studio so there wasn't much room for mistakes. In Gene's opinion this process brought out the best in musicians. You can't just rewind and re record. Now because of advanced digital
technology, mix and mastering engineer end up doing too much technical edits to the production. However, Gene Pau says, “The imperfection is necessary to retain the human element in music: (“The Auspicious Apprenticeship of Gene Paul” 7). Music without the human imperfection will sound too repetitive. It sounds robotic, and ultimately can take away some of the emotion that is being expressed by these imperfections. Emotions can be very well the essence of music and without it music is nothing but noise.
John Helps lead guitarist from the band, Maybeshewill makes a statement that can relate to Gene’s philosophy on musical production, “There's just something different and special about recording the real thing. That human element, I guess the imperfections,