Seems to me I'm about 2 months ahead of you Cleveland - and they haven't been very fruitful months either. I initially grabbed about 6 different freebie VST/DAW's from the net palnning to try them all out. It was all too much. I heard a home-made soundclip on another site, I liked the sound so I just asked what he used. I got rid of everything except Acoustica Mixcraft - not because it's better (I really wouldn't know anyway) but because it was the one I was making the most progress on. I'm not even looking at anything else for 12 months because I honestly won't know until then what I'm looking for. As a guitarist I am fortunate in that the music stores are full of machines, gizmos and recording utilities for guitar. I've got a Behringer USB interface, a Behringer X V Amp - like 40 stomp boxes in a digital form in one box - and a Shure Mic. I have decided not to buy anything else until I've learnt this stuff to the full extent of it's limitations
