cheers for the advice and everything. soz to totally go off on one and confuse everyone with my production worries. its just you think you are getting somewhere and then you listen back to what you have done with your real listening head on and think, nah....its cack....the drum patterns are good but the hithats aren't cutting through, the kick sounds like an ant kicking a peanut the synths are overwhelming everything...argh....and I really feel like I am overwhelmed by technology. sometimes I feel like just giving up but my real desire to produce drives me on.

Anyone who says making dance music is easy is soooo wrong. not only do you need to be an engineering genius, a wizard with midi, cabling and general technology, an expert in oscillators, effects, filters, envelopes, compression and eqing, but at the end of all that you need to be able to write interesting synth parts, basslines, leads, drum patterns, sweeps maybe vocals.....my god....it's the whole package....and it's f**kin hard....