Hey there,
Welcome to the forum.
Its good to see you found your way here, and it seems you have already got some good advice so I’m just gonna throw a few things at you.
Check out these threads. They will answer alot of your initial questions:
The Snook’s big book o’ pheros for rookies ( 1 2 3 … Last Page)
Basic Noob Phero Bootcamp (Basic Noob Phero Bootcamp) ( 1 2 3 … Last Page)
Ummm…there was a guy way back when from Singapore. Ahhhh…he did alot of repoting here. You might want to check out some of his research. I think his name was…ummm…Phatsounds. I think thats it. check it out using the search function.
Good luck.