[ljguitar]

Originally Posted by mc1

...the idea of stopping and backing up a couple of seconds, then continuing on seems like a tough way to go, and would mess up the flow of the music.

Hi mc1...

When I operated an acoustic studio, different musicians responded quite differently, and that showed up in their workflow.

We usually recorded subsequent tracks to an original scratch track recorded by the performer in the tempo and style of the song as perfect as they could make it - till we had enough parts to turn it off.

Some people who came in to add tracks went all the way through then went back and made corrections, whereas others once a mistake was made needed to stop and fix it then or they would flub-up more.

I was flexible enough to go with what helped them be most musical.

Equally competent musicians really can be very different from each other.