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Yep, done some albums on my own. Great fun initially but soon the frustration of not getting an album finished set in. The solution is to keep things simple and to record quickly.
When I've written a batch of songs I spend a couple of weeks rehearsing them on acoustic guitar. When I feel I can play them with confidence I set up a couple of mics in my live room. Next I hit "record" and play each song a couple of times. The best takes are keepers. I record to 8-track analogue, but usually I only use 4 of the 8 tracks per song.
When a track is finished, it is finished, I don't revisit it. If it sucks it is probably the writing, not the recording. You can overdub for weeks, it won't make a bad song good. Time is better spent writing new material.
I don't want to go back to the days when I thought I could create a rock epic by myself. I'm not that good. Nowadays I keep it simple and get a whole lot more work done.
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