Love Music, ........ But !

I love loads of different things about music, writing a song, listening to my favorite artists, playing in military bands, steel bands, bavarian bands, gospel bands, 10 piece blues bands, rock and roll bands.
 
But there's nothing like a recording session to make me feel inadeqate, It doesnt matter if its a vocal or instumental recording it never take me long to find the 'Warts' i what Im doing

If you heard the raw tracks of your favorite albums in isolation you would likely hear plenty of "warts". Not saying don't strive to reduce or eliminate them wherever possible but sometimes making things TOO perfect sucks all the character and life out of a track. At that point you might as well just use virtual instruments with strict quantizing... and that's no fun at all.
 
;-)

I present to you, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Ozzie, none of which could hit a note, but all of which wrote music that a lot of folks liked a whole bunch.
 
Just embrace who you are.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

You're the only one who will hear those warts

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We all have out limitations as musicians. I personally love live music recordings over studio version because of the warts! 

AGBFunkyBassman
I love loads of different things about music, writing a song, listening to my favorite artists, playing in military bands, steel bands, bavarian bands, gospel bands, 10 piece blues bands, rock and roll bands.
 
But there's nothing like a recording session to make me feel inadeqate, It doesnt matter if its a vocal or instumental recording it never take me long to find the 'Warts' i what Im doing

It seems to me that you are wanted by other musicians that is enough praise. 

There is a high that comes from active creativity that colors our perception, not just of the process, but of the product. Performing music is a physical activity, and to work successfully there needs to be a suspension of self-criticism or else, like the centipede in Craster's poem, we may be paralyzed. Listening to a recording presents us with the product with the magical state reversed. We listen critically to the sound without the physical and emotional connection to the creation of the music. That focus is the other half of the work. But that critical second apprehension is the opportunity to study the music in a different language. To hear it as a stranger, and to compare what is real with what we have imagined. If we can listen critically with intelligence and humility instead of despair, it provides an opportunity to bring the real closer to the ideal over time. In the end, we want the sound that a stranger hears to be the sound that we imagine, and the act of listening to result in the same suspension of the critical mind that the process of creation needs to function.
 
A centipede was happy – quite!
Until a toad in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?"
This raised her doubts to such a pitch,
She fell exhausted in the ditch
Not knowing how to run.
 
 

Anderton
If it's from your heart, there will be people who want to hear it. 

Personally I've never wanted people to hear my own stuff or at that was not the aim... if someone asks what Im doing and wants to listen .... great but its allways been for my edification rather than anyone elses

Another way to look at this is that your recordings will be a history of your music and your skills. My granddaughter is learning to play the flute (she's in 5th grade and this is her first year playing an instrument). This can be a discouraging time, because in a lot of ways they don't see how much they have improved. So when she practiced I would record her - not all the time, but maybe once a month or so. Now when she feels she is not getting any better, we play those early recordings, and she can hear how much she has improved.
 
I think the same applies to us. I listen to my early recordings and there is a lot I don't like - from the technique on the instruments, to my mix, to just about everything. But when compared to where I am today - I can hear a difference, and that is worth a lot. This doesn't mean I am where I want to be (and to be honest, I don't know if I'll ever get there), but it provides perspective, and that can be worth a lot.
 
Keep your old recordings, and learn from them. You may not think you are improving, but you are.

Anderton
If it's from your heart, there will be people who want to hear it. 

I have found this to be the truth. No matter your chops, technique, or fashion, if it's from the heart, it will be enjoyed by someone.

I bought a Tascam DR 40 which makes it simple to record all my gigs straight off the RCA outs of my mixer. This as you know will give you a very up front vocal. I use backing tracks so there's no goof ups coming from the band, I mike my guitar amp and it's in there too. 
 
Anyhow, It's very humbling to listen to the play back after you had what was perceived as a killer night. Where the dance floor was packed and you received a lot of positive feedback and praise for a job well done. I won't even let my dog listen to the playback...
But the results are I never have swollen headed about my talent, I am always humble and no my place in the pecking order of life.  i love that line from American pie:
 
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
 

I have a Fender Jazz fretless that I use from time to time and that thing is pretty unforgiving when it comes to technique. It is funny how something that you play on it may sound full of warts while recording can sound really pretty good when on playback.