Steve Albini gives a talk on analog vs. digital and other audio engineering questions (.mov, really long)
If you're not familiar with his engineering (most famously: Nirvana's "In Utero" and the Pixies's "Surfer Rosa") or his bands (previously Big Black and Rapeman, currently Shellac) then you've might've heard of Albini's infamous essay, "The Problem With Music" on why artists in the biz are usually facked. more inside