The order you record in, the click you do or do not use, what the players hear in their headphones, and the management of a roomful of people whose energy is a resource that runs out. Almost none of it is about equipment.
A tracking session looks like a technical event and is mostly a logistics one. The equipment is usually the part that goes right. What goes wrong is the order things were done in, how long the room waited, what the players could hear, and a band whose best hour was spent watching somebody re-patch a headphone amp.
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