Often, we've had discussions that would fall under a general category I'll call 'When Using Our G & Stuff Gets In The Way of The Music Creation Process'.
How many first turned as I did, way back when, to Craig Anderton's book 'Home Recording For Musicians'? He's revised & updated it over the years as things have advanced from open reel multitracks.
Here's a link to an article by Anderton from the latest issue of 'EQ' magazine (and to the mag's site) that gets into the topic of our current technology and the Right Brain vs. Left Brain conflicts that can pulverize us.
In sum, he gets down to the nub: the better you know how to use your stuff (Can you say: 'Operator Error'?), even to the point that, often, 'less can be more', the better you can keep the creative side oozing its juices.
http://www.eqmag.com/archive/1204/1204_Features2.htm
It's pretty long, and some may get a headache from reading it.
Note: poke around and find that there's more in this site about recording/mic'ing vocals, etc.
Oh, yeah...and an article on my good friend 60's Guy's 'favorite' topic
, Room Acoustics, that got me reaching for my pal Jose Cuervo.