Thanks GH for understanding my predicament. Having experienced something similar yourself I now know its not all down to my 'newbiness' and I feel reassured that what I am doing, albeit labourious, is kind of on the right track.

The feel for the song has changed many times and that hasn't helped my state of mind, however I imported a few instruments to my DAW again (for the zillionth time) and can now make a clean start with a goal in mind.

You mention a 'Good'DAW, I use Mixcraft 7. After trialing several DAW's this one was more user friendly for me, others were too complicated for my expertise, or lack of!
Putting tracks down and cutting dicing n splicing is OK to do, the mixing and Mastering on the other hand is something I am still working on and trying to get my head around what all these things do, and I'm sure this is the case with every DAW. I must say your recordings are first class GH.

I would love to find a musician to work with me but my Bulgarian language skills leaves a lot to be desired and so unfortunatley I must plod on solo. I did do a couple of numbers with a friend of mine who still lives in the UK a couple of years ago. He is a great guitar player but he is also a very busy man and trying to peice things together 2000 miles apart was not easy for us.

Anyway thank you for your reply to the post. It has certainly reassured me that I am not alone in this scenario, but with a little thinking 'outside the box', somethings are still acheivable.

Cheers

Paul

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