The local library has been a wonderful resource for me to find out some stuff about Home Recording (which has the same sorts of issues albeit without the expensive equipment).

If you have something similar near you you may find it similarly helpful.

There was a very helpful book called 'Making the Ultimate Demo' which was based around articles from (I think) Electronic Musician which I found very useful and various others about Home Recording (I think it's 621.3893 in the good old Dewey Decimal system somewhere near radio equipment and electronics)