Throughout the years recording technology has undergone some astonishing developments. With these developments record makers have been afforded an array of inexpensive tools with which they can pretty much do anything they can imagine.

But this progression brought about a side effect-the danger of overproducing, getting bogged down in the record making process, and concentrating too hard on the technology itself and not the music.

Here’s Dave Stewart, co-founder of the Eurythmics, in an Artists House video sharing his take on the role of technology in music production, and how that has evolved over the decades.

Record the music. Don’t use the technology.