Check out this video of a recording done in a car, it's quite good.
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLNtuj30YFA
 
Here is the person's setup:
 

I used my 7 year-old laptop and a Blue Yeti USB microphone for all the recordings except for the bass guitar, which I did as a MIDI instrument because I don’t own a bass. All recordings were done in Audacity, which is a free DAW. The guitar amp I used was a battery powered Roland Micro Cube which I got for free at a yard sale years ago.
Recording the song was pretty straightforward after doing the drums, but I’ve gotta tell you those drum fills took some serious concentration. I pretty much only had one option for mic placement for drums – the middle compartment. The snare sounded TERRIBLE in the car; super honkey and tonally out of whack. So I laid my hoodie over half of the snare to get a tighter sound, which helped. 
At first I attempted to mix the song on my old laptop but it kept slowing down and giving me issues, so I mixed it all at home using Reaper on my rather powerful PC instead. I used Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones as my primary reference for mixing, though I double checked the mix on a number of other headphones and speakers. I only used stock plugins in Reaper except for a compressor that came free with my Focusrite audio interface. – Chris White (TRR Student)

 
Discuss what holds you back from making your songs. 

That's awesome.
 
Honestly what's holding me back from making music is my creativity, I always come up with short little awesome snippets of songs but then when I go to expand on them and create something full length I seem to get lost and they wind up going nowhere

I hear ya Trance,
 
What hold me back is cclarry!!  He is always posting sales in the Studio Deals Forum, and then I go out and buy those sale items.  After I take the time to learn the software, and start recording my songs using the new plugin or software, the guy has the nerve to post another sale.  Now, I have to take time out to learn that piece of new software to use on the song I'm sooo delayed on writing.  
 
Darn that cclarry!!! 

I saw this video a few days ago. It really puts things in perspective. 
I have a substantial number of projects in the making, but I struggle with lyrics these days...
It will probably pass this time as well (I hope)
I won't blame cclarry, though
All the best.

TranceCanada
That's awesome.
 
Honestly what's holding me back from making music is my creativity, I always come up with short little awesome snippets of songs but then when I go to expand on them and create something full length I seem to get lost and they wind up going nowhere

Truth!!
 
I've got so many little bits in different folders/files yet never seem to be able to develop them further

no Lava Lamp = a showstopper for me

sloooooooow collaborators hold me back
 
 
j/k guys

Bristol_Jonesey

TranceCanada
That's awesome.
 
Honestly what's holding me back from making music is my creativity, I always come up with short little awesome snippets of songs but then when I go to expand on them and create something full length I seem to get lost and they wind up going nowhere

Truth!!
 
I've got so many little bits in different folders/files yet never seem to be able to develop them further

Yup, that's me too...

Bristol_Jonesey

TranceCanada
That's awesome.
 
Honestly what's holding me back from making music is my creativity, I always come up with short little awesome snippets of songs but then when I go to expand on them and create something full length I seem to get lost and they wind up going nowhere

Truth!!
 
I've got so many little bits in different folders/files yet never seem to be able to develop them further

I know another issue of mine is that I rely too heavily on presets and suck so horribly at sound design, so the sound I want never truly comes out and that helps me get lost in trying to find the sounds I want

TranceCanada

Bristol_Jonesey

TranceCanada
That's awesome.
 
Honestly what's holding me back from making music is my creativity, I always come up with short little awesome snippets of songs but then when I go to expand on them and create something full length I seem to get lost and they wind up going nowhere

Truth!!
 
I've got so many little bits in different folders/files yet never seem to be able to develop them further

I know another issue of mine is that I rely too heavily on presets and suck so horribly at sound design, so the sound I want never truly comes out and that helps me get lost in trying to find the sounds I want

Collaborate with someone and see where it goes. There's a ton of excellent musicians in here and something good should come out of it......(worst case is you'll be where you're at now).