The good news is that I'm learning a lot. Making music is really fun, but audio production requires attention to certain details that I've only just started picking up on.

One reality is that I should keep recordings of multiple takes. It's kind of hard to sing while listening to a monitor as a song is playing - there can be slight delay, which forces the singer to compensate. While everything is....on beat, and mostly at the correct pitch, small deformations can reveal themselves based on how the singer sang the take.