[mister-newb]

Originally Posted by Farview

The fastest, easiest way to get a handle on this is to follow this link and start reading.

Tweak's Guide to the Home and Project Studio

It's pretty complete so it will help you get started with all of this.

Thanks. Although that guide seems very thorough, after reading through it a couple times, I still did not see anything specific addressing recording signals, and how hot it should be.

If you know where I may have missed it, I'd appreciate it, or if you someone could offer me an informative rundown on this, I'd be grateful.

Jack Ruston, your response was helpful. I'm guessing that I just need to keep my fader at 0, and when tracking, just make sure the red doesn't get too close to it, leaving room for compression, so I can add to the signal?