[dj]

Hi, Poppa:

A voice and a guitar? What a novel idea! I must try it. (My guitar often stares accusingly at me from across the room while I fiddle with knobs on the YamaKorgaMoogaha Belchfire 4000.)

Your music is your music, of course. Simple or complex, if it says what you want to say, then it's good.

It's just that, with new tools these days, what took a studio and a team of engineers 60 years ago, any pimply kid can do in his bedroom today. Not necessarily better, but almost certainly with less hiss and pop.

Sounds to me that what you want (to start with, at least) is a two-channel audio interface* to lay tracks down into Audacity with voice and guitar or similar. After that, use softsynths to fill out the sound to taste -- and Notation Composer to create the tracks for that filler.

David

* anything in the $100 range will likely do very well. Don't try to just plug straight into your soundcard's mic or line input, as the sound quality will suffer greatly. They really aren't up to the job.