Hey, yea.. I've managed to get the pain down to a minimum while playing by going over all aspects of how I was playing and that in itself is not really a bad thing. I went over how I was holding my pick , how much pressure I was applying with my hands, what kind of riffs are really stressful to play and such.
I'm using a Line6 UX2 interface to connect my guitar to my Mac and then used a preset from EZMix 2 for the tones. I used 4 guitar tracks (2 for thhe rhythm/lead and 2 for the solo's) and a bass guitar track. Programmed the midi track for the drums and ran it through EZDrummer 2 with the basic metal setting.
This was my first instrumental try , so even though much could be improved, I'm satisfied with the outcome. I did figure out that I was running my signal too loud into logic so that a lot of tone was going to waste, but playing around with it and learning makes all the fun.
Wow, that sounds like a lot of work. No wonder it sounds so full.