Recording baby steps

As with everything in life: practice, practice, practice! 

After 4 or 5 weeks of the studio being on hold thought I'd take the original, terrible recording and edit it. It didn't go well..turned out to be fragments, snipits and bits and pieces. Then, with hesitation went through the 1st Mp3 process. Eventually sent it to my email so I could listen to it on my phone. Well, if I had US Navy listening equipment perhaps it could have been heard. I'll give it another go and see if act II will show improvement. It reminds me of a chimp pulling a lever, then getting a banana

Sleigh, "In my experience, recording stuff always takes about ten times longer than you think it should!"
You are correct about 10 x longer..may be 10 x squared in my case.
Used a different mic stand and longer chords to get further away from the monitors to eliminate feedback. Also learned that the guitar Q11 can be used to adjust to the preferred sound. Duh
Flashback! Hit the record button and my hands went to shaking like a leaf in a storm. Sent the shakey recording to be made into an mp3 and it came back whisper quiet..thank goodness, wouldn't even want my dog to hear that one.
I think rigormortis will set in before sucess is achieved.

Never have had much in the way of stage fright (I usually like being on stage once I get there). My weakness is self-promotion and going out to get gigs in the first place. And more practice is always a good idea. Mind you, I'm not interested in Facebook fame -- I'm just trying to put together enough songs for a demo CD that I can give to bar and coffee shop owners and hopefully pick up a few more solo gigs. I'm almost there at this point...

With no false humility intended, thanks for the compliment, but I'm far from a class player on guitar. I'm somewhat better on bass -- more practice--but still nowhere near being 'top shelf'. At best, I'm a halfway decent strummer on guitar, with the ability to take a few amateurish and limited solos as long as no one's expecting too much. I've no illusion that I'm anything more than that -- but I keep working at it! I'm persistent, if nothing else. 

You're right in that -- and I've been considering also putting the mp3 files on thumb drives and handing them out, since small thumb drives are now dirt cheap. That way, they can play them however they want. Alternately, I could just put the files on a separate (hidden) page on my website and let someone listen to them on their browser -- but that's asking them to take a second step on their own and I don't know that they'd do that. 

We'll see...