[Dr. Dolittle]

Laurence Payne wrote:

YES! Experienced musicians can emulate "listening" to the other
players even while laying a track in isolation. Lesser musician's
can't - they overplay and the music needs rescuing with remedial eq
and other tricks.

Umm, to a point. When actually playing together the experience IS
different. Players (and singers) feed on each other. No matter how well
players can emulate this (and some are better than others), it is not
the same performance. There aren't very many Stevie Wonders out there.