I enjoy listening to myself. However, the ultra critical tech in me commonly feels frustrated that my drums did not sound better. I have recorded 3 albums on kit, 1 album on multi-tracked aux. perc......and it is rare that I have heard a song that I feel good about how every drum/part/instrument sounded. Then there are performance issues. While the studio is where to get it right, there was never the budget to take the time to do so. It is a slow learning process. The exception to this is the album where I did all the perc. 6 tracks per song, 10 songs - all recorded in one 12 hour session. Performance issues were fixed on the computer and it all came out sounding amazing. It helps that the music I was supplementing was amazing material and performance itself.
Nowadays - it is a different story - as my friends and I have all the gear we need to make a top notch production. I have not recorded (for full pro release) since about 2002.
That will change soon - though the 'pro release' is subjective - and the next studio recording for me will likely just be shared online and not even packaged.
I record at home all the time for demos and just for fun. I use 7 mics into an old analog Yammy board and run a stereo out into the computer. Despite only having 2 knobs of EQ on the board (High/Low) some of the recordings I am getting now with this setup rivals the full studio productions of the past. It has been a long process of mic placement experimentation and tweaking the board.
