I'm a home musician who tries to record almost every day and always gets discouraged. When covid is not happening I play in a band and feel pretty good/confident about how we (and I) sound. But I also try to record solo, mid-fi albums with myself playing all the instruments, recording each instrument at a time into a song, and I find that with this (especially the vocals) I end up rerecording almost endlessly (or at least what feels like endlessly). I put an album out last year that took me months to record, and am working on a second one that seems even slower going. When I do re-record things, I feel like I get better/get closer to the sound I want each time, but only incrementally so, and so I don't want to give up or just chalk it up to my abundant lack of talent, but it also takes forever to arrive where I want.

Which makes me curious how much time other people spend on rerecording parts. Do you guys just rerecord until you love it? Give yourself a set amount of times to record and stick to that? Do you have any special tricks that help you nail everything quicker?

Thanks everyone!