With multiple takes, comping etc. it quickly becomes too complicated and convoluted for me. I feel more comfortable with the old-school method of recording and deleting whole takes until I am happy with the outcome. Making more use of modern DAW features would save me quite some time, though.
Every bit with you here!
I'm quite familiar with the various technical options, but I found out that for me, especially as a guitar player (rather than as a "producer", if you will...), there's quite some benefits in recording entire tracks (or at least larger portions) rather than cycle-recording individual sections.
I may use copy/paste for individual song parts, but for a start I still prefer to record things in larger segments. That way I need to really get my parts done technically and concentrate on playing - which helps my playing in general.
I usually record 1-3 entire takes, then listen to the one I think of being the best and once there's some less than usable parts, I'm having a look at the other takes, whether the part was done better. Once done with that, I may re-record and replace some smaller portions individually, but I'm always trying to keep that to a minimum. As said, one part of the entire excersize for me is to improve as a player, the entire recording thing is more like a "side-dish" (especially as I'm not a decent songwriter anyway).
Fwiw, this is also why I stopped using amp plugins for the most part, I usually don't even record DI tracks simultaneously anymore. Using external hardware forces me to finish at least an entire take because otherwise, due to using analog pedals without total recall, the sound will be lost. Also helps me to learn which sounds work well. And after all, it's the same stuff I'm using live (which is my main job), so I'm getting more familiar with that, too.
When using plugins, it happened too often that a) I thought I could as well finish things later on and b) I often found myself tweaking things to death.
