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I'd like a paypal donate button somewhere.  I do my own etchings, and have built a bunch of bean's projects, but never given him a dime, which makes me feel bad because he deserves it.  Anything to help a brother out, especially when he's given as much to the community as bean has.

I built an Airbrake a couple of years ago after reading a ton about attenuators.  It works well, and was fairly simple to build.  Not particularly cheap though, and I honestly decided I like to use pedals and the master volume better.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=29283

That thread will help you more with recording than a thousand books or a million websites.  yep has an amazing ability to take complex ideas and explain them in a way that makes sense to everyone, newbie or seasoned pro.

And Reaper is a great DAW.

I've built them all, and used them all in gigging situations.  My favorite by far is the Boneyard.  It replaced my Blackstar HT40's drive channel as my main distortion, it really is that good.  It seems to hit all the classic Marshall sounds, but is able to get much, much more distorted, well into the unusable realm.

The OCD always makes me think of a fuzzy TS, as strange as it sounds.  I see a lot of people playing them, and it always just seems generic sounding to me.  It is a really good stacking pedal, I liked the sound of a Timmy pushing it, but the Timmy pushing the Boneyard is much better.

The Uproar and Chunk Chunk both had the same problems for me: they sound amazingly awesome when messing around at the house, but get lost in a mix.  I'm not a mid-scooper or super-high-gainer.  That seems to be what those pedals excel at.

To be fair, I didn't give the Uproar a whole lot of time on my board.  I finished the Boneyard a couple of weeks after it, and immediately knew I had found the sound I had been looking for.  I know there are some great sounds in there, and I found some of them, I just didn't bond with it.