[adamfarr]

Tuning guitars: 10 mins
Changing speaker settings on PC: 5 mins
Gain staging (again): 20 mins
Tinkering with lyrics: 15 mins
False starts: 15 mins
Fetching more beer: 15 mins
More tinkering: 15 mins
Interruption from family member: 7 mins
More tuning: 5 minutes
Actually recording: 5 mins
Listening back: 5 mins
Searching through DAW user manual: 10 mins
Wondering what [insert name of inspired forum member] would do now: 5 mins
Despair: 1 minute
Hope: 2 minutes
Untangling cables: total 45 mins

[PaulAds]

 

[DevyE]

You need a Polytune 

[Viscount Cramer & His Orchestra]

I take it you won't be worried about the proposal to amend the posting rule to only one song per month then.

Only one minute of despair? Surely that in itself is worth more than two minutes of hope?

What the hell is gain staging? No, don't tell me. I've managed without it so far and who knows how long I've got left to live.

[Paulski]

Yeah my despair time is much higher, plus it takes time to get my dog to shut up

[digger72]

Lol. Too funny - and much too true.
 

[igg]

Adam,

You left out rebooting the computer a few times when the DAW crashes.

[mondobongo]

Cables, cables, cables! At this very moment I have two guitar leads and a mic lead wrapped around the castors on my chair like boa constrictors. Nothing to do with me being untidy. 

[Neil C]

What about 20 seconds to swear and reconnect the headphones when you've hit record, stood up to start to do a vocal take, tread on the cable and inadvertently yank the phones out of the audio interface just as you're about to start that great vocal take?
 
Neil

[pompeyjazz]

Absolutely spot on mate  also re recording vocals as the dog has just seen a cat in the garden. Left a bit of that in on one track. Just put an effect on it 

[Binladeda]

  1.  lay down fixed beat.... 1hr
  2.  Add chord prog.....1 hr
  3   Add Bass.....! hr
  4.  Find right tone for lead gtr.......2 weeks 

[adamfarr]

Nice to know I am not the only one - and even that it could be worse as I haven't yet had barking dogs or crashing DAWs...

Add in a few retakes for ticking clock (only a problem if not using 120 bpm!) and lately GuitarTuna bonging during playing (at least something must have been in tune then...)

[shadowfax]

Ask my wife why she unplugged all my cables when she illegally cleaned my studio
move the dog out of the soundbooth
why does my guitar smell of polish for crissaks!!
realise that all the cables have been coiled and put in a draw..to be tidy..
who the heck tunes guitars?  just sing in tune with the guitar..whatsamarrawifya
sing an awesome take and realise I didn't arm the channel to record..
DAW crash just after a great idea that has gone when puter is switched on again..
realise it's a waste of yer actual life and find summat else to do during which a great idea pops into one's head so mad dash back to studio...
move dog out of soundbooth...and at that instance realise he's chewing your dongle...

I never learn..Kevin

[Paulski]

move dog out of soundbooth...and at that instance realise he's chewing your dongle...

ouch!!