Deb - Sounds like a wonderful - and educational - experience. And that's the way to do it if a person is able. I just would not want to discourage someone from doing a recording in a more humble fashion IF that is the best they can manage, given the financial and other circumstances of their life.

I recorded a CD this summer - I had two days to do it, and I did. It is full of, um, "imperfections", and I would like to have a month to re-do it, but I don't. On the other hand, I feel it does capture a certain feeling worth capturing, and will communicate something worth communicating to at least some listeners, and it was the best I could do under the circumstances. It's like marriage or having children: if you wait till "the time is right", you may never do it ...