Why Am I Doing This?
So, some background by way of introduction. I'm a <cough> year old that has persisted with my musical hobby for more years than my wife deems seemly. I usually spend my time playing my Babicz Spider acoustic guitar (awesome - the guitar, not my playing) and singing along (awful). I thought I'd listen to just how bad I sounded to my family by my turning on the audio* recorder on my phone and after listening back started thinking, in the manner of true obsessives everywhere, how it would be if I could replace the bit where I hit a bum note (often) or the bit where I sang the wrong note (always). Or how it might be with drums, or two guitars, or an electric guitar, or some effects, or a cool Baker Street style sax solo, or, well, you get the idea. As computers are my day job I though it would be simple to turn on my computer, run up a recording application and play around. It really, really wasn't. If you haven't yet come across the arcane world of DAWs (see what I ...