In a lot of ways you really can't
hear yourself totally when you're concentrating on playing - most every good guitarist tapes a certain amount of their practicing, beside using a metronome it's the only other way to really get objective, I think. You sure do learn a lot.
Wayne Krantz says in "An Improvisor's OS":
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Get one of those cheap little desktop cassette recorders, the kind with forward and reverse cueing. Minidisc recorders, DAT recorders or anything else with potentially fragile transport mechanisms are not recommended for this exercise because they burn out quickly. The desktops cost around $30 and last about a year.
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I'm personally fond of those little four-track cassette recorders, Fostex and Tascam both make one for under $100. You can make multitrack stuff and they're easy to use. I've burnt up four or five of them in 20+ years, but so what - beside being good for your playing & making you a far better musician, it's a lot of fun to
make something.