Modern prog bands similar to 70s prog?

You mean that people focus on the style/genre rather than the sound? I'm not so sure about that, since there is a correlation.

But sure, I guess the OP is primarily looking for albums that have a "retro production" rather than emulating the style of the 70s. So less Transatlantic, more Wobbler/Anekdoten/Änglagård etc.. 

I like to hear Hammond B3 organ through Leslie speakers, genuine Mellotron (or high-quality Mellotron samples), Rickenbacker bass, authentic Mini-Moog, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Gibson Les Paul with distortion & analog echo, etc. 

This will give you an idea of what I always look for!   Many bands experiment with these instruments, such as Glass Hammer, Night Watch etc. 

I'd even say it's not a good habit to have if it's the case. 

Theoretically speaking, all digital recording is sampling which doesn't record all of the musical information, while analogue recording, like the name says, as a principle does.

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Anyway, the most important in my opinion is how much one likes the sound quality one seems to hear.

Oh... Wobbler

Or maybe some of us like the tortured old sounds of rock as it was meant to be heard.

Hi,

You might actually have hit it on the head. In those days, just about everything was done in the studio ... and thus the ability to make it sound better is easier ... nowadays, we work off the DAW and what we recorded into it, and I'm not sure that the quality ... studio wise ... that you are looking for is there, since the studio has special sound walls and items that are used to help clean up the sound more than we do within a home environment, or even in a garage.

But as you already mentioned ... drums shelved ... and yeah, not a surprise since the majority of folks can only hit the snare drum and not use the rest of the drum set. And then they think of themselves as "masters" if they can manage to get 8 hits in time, and then maybe 16 touches in time! good mathematicians in my book, but not quite good music "keepers" as I like to say ... 

Some of this is noticeable ... for example, in SW's latest PT album ... when/where you can easily tell the parts that were mailed around, and done at home, that were kinda mixed in well, but the feeling of the warmth and touch that you talk about, is nowhere to be seen ... I find that last album more "clinical" and "surgical" than anything else ... but not an "artistic" achievement at all!