I recorded my first track for the current album a little while back and got what I thought was a perfect take, grinning like a fool I played it back isolated.. my face dropped.. it sounded terrible, little buzzes here, bit of string noise there and I was absolutely gutted.
So I rerecorded and rerecorded until it was almost perfectly clean, then I played each of them back in turn with the track. The original one sounded better, and not just by a little bit!
At this point I was very happy but felt like an idiot as I had spent the best part of an entire day recording the same track again and again despite the first take sounding the best!!