Hi every one ... i ve witten a kind of a rough How-to(Draft) for initial recording using Ardour... and using JAmin along with it via JACK(jackd). This was primarily go give a basic how to of intial acoustic recording. And how a mastering software, which in this case is JAmin can be used to tweak the recording to produce a well spaced/MAstered recording...(Basically to achive the stuff in youe head) . Well this is just a start... and any input from your side will be helpful... so please check out the following site ... http://users.sarai.net/~ish/contents.html thanks >>> ish