"Imagine traveling to Japan with a MacBook Pro, a couple of Neumann U87s, and a Duet as your "studio" in order to record the Yoshida Brothers, the world's great masters of the shamisen. Imagine recording in GarageBand with the confidence that your "demo" recordings might reap "master" quality performances. Now imagine that you're not imagining that."
imagine travelling to japan and renting the whole stuff. or imagine using e-mail to get the files for mixing and not even travel to japan.or just send the harddrive.
imagine that your shitty guitar sound will still sound shitty in garage band because you are using a shitty guitar and a shitty amp and a shitty mic. and a lousy guitar player. out of tune. because you spend all your money on teh fancy stuff. but its "pro", ain´t it?