To be honest, look up your favorite tunes, favorite bands and see if there's any interesting production info. Jimmy Page was a fucking studio engineering GENIUS. Sir George Martin is single-handedly responsible for The Beatles. Billy Corgan has really unique recording and tracking methods. Emulate your heroes. Pick up tips and gear info from ever place you can find it. Get familiar with certain recording idioms. Do worry about the nuts and bolts of it all. Immerse yourself in tangential information and it'll all just make sense. Recording is about the things that make sense to you. Sorry this is vague, I don't want to just say "check out youtube". There's a lot of technical bullshit that doesn't matter if you don't approach it with the right attitude.
To be honest, look up your favorite tunes, favorite bands and see if there's any interesting production info. Jimmy Page was a fucking studio engineering GENIUS. Sir George Martin is single-handedly responsible for The Beatles. Billy Corgan has really unique recording and tracking methods. Emulate your heroes. Pick up tips and gear info from ever place you can find it. Get familiar with certain recording idioms. Do worry about the nuts and bolts of it all. Immerse yourself in tangential information and it'll all just make sense. Recording is about the things that make sense to you. Sorry this is vague, I don't want to just say "check out youtube". There's a lot of technical bullshit that doesn't matter if you don't approach it with the right attitude.