This poster is inspiring, but also is a good start to know wether you're ready to make the leap if you've not bought all the DAW components already which is my case haha
The thing is most pros do give advices for starters who want to get into real pro quality sounds.
What about those who have another activity and just want to spend their spare time practicing, learning and creating decent quality music for non commercial purposes ? I mean unless you want to make this your main activity, there is no point in spending 20K$ for a state of the art DAW right ;-) Music is my passion but lets be honest, even though i love my music, its not gonna help me eat everyday so... lets keep a budget then hahaha
And please forgive me for potential spelling mistakes, i'm a french guy with the goal to improve my english skills ;-)