man, recording is a pain in the butt.
you think you got the most awesome tome on the planet.. but when you try and capture that it comes out so horrible that you want to hang yourself for spending a fortune on guitars, amps, pickups, effects, yadda yadda, to have a recording that compares to a chinese squire through an mg15...
though, once you get the knicks and knacks polished out, it's well worth it