How do I get recorded companies to even listen
to my songs,to start with.?

I'm pretty new to this site and recording in general, so please forgive my ignorance. Im also trying to do the best I can working with a pathetic budget. Up until now I have spent all my money on a hard track recorder, mixer, and mics and have just been monitoring with a cheap bookshelf stereo.

I was wondering if anyone here could explain to me, (and give technical reasons) why certain recording programs may sound better than others?

I'm just speaking of the program itself, for example, Nuendo, Cubase, Cool edit pro, N-track, and down the line.

How do you go about finding your monitors sweet spot?

http://www.vintec-audio.de/vintec/index_E.htm

I am looking to upgrade my ANUS.
Here is my setup.

Asus P4B266-C
P4 1.6a (overclocked to 2.13)
512 PC-2100 DDR
60GB 7200
20GB 7200
Lite-On CD-RW

I have been working on some larger projects and would like to get a litte more power from my system. What would be my best option for an upgrade?

Is there inexpensive recording equipment that measures up in every way to higher priced items, in terms of headroom, noise level, durability and sound quality? Or is this all just a dream? Is budget equipment a compromise of quality vs price? Do the cheaper knock off products really measure up to the “real” thing or are they just half or three quarters as good?

So, what is everyone using for routing and listening? Stepped attenuators? Mastering consoles?

What would be the 'dream' mastering desk? What would you want, and use every day? Inserts? Parallel processing paths? VU's?

Just polling everyone, mostly with regards to workflow and what affects it.

I'm trying to increase my productivity. People give me 120 minute cassettes to transfer to CD and I spend two hours twiddling my thumbs waiting for the audio to get recorded on my PC before I can do any work on it. I know that there are high speed dubbing cassette decks out there. What I want is a deck that can send that high pitched garbled fast audio to the outputs.

CAN I USE BEHRINGER ULTRA DYNE 9024. TO MIKE UP MY GUITARS AND IF I CAN WHAT THE BEST SETTINGS
TO USE. .USING MIKE AKG D130. .