Taylor...
Goto Amazon.com and type in home recording....they have a butt load of books and publications out there to augment what you'll read here...also, the more you read here, the more you'll learn and go from one thing to the next...you've got questions to the answers you dont know your even going to ask yet...I have yet to have a question for this forum that hasnt been asked.....but sometimes I ask anyway....because....thats what newbies do.....that and buy Behringer.....of course, I'm still a newbie because I dont know whats really wrong with Behringer...but thats for another post....
Good luck
Michael