Take enough time to learn your music tools to a medium level, as an advanced level will only come with time and lots of practice.
I would also encourage you to limit yourself to the least possible amount of tools, as more than two or three would probably be harder to manage on live environments.
Get a good enough soundcard allowing you to record/mixing your live equipment on a computer or hardware device but also to use as an external mixer live.
Listen to your tracks live or recorded into any DAW and do A/B comparison, using an spectrum analyser, with the type of sound/artist/tracks you would like to sound like. Apply processing and shape it till your production sounds similar to the reference.
Invest on external processors to mimic the ones you use on the DAW and then probably you would sound a bit more closer to the reference, but get ready to spend a lot of money I would say.
I would rather just record your hardware stuff into your preferred DAW, using different tracks for each instrument/sound, and then process and mix it there to your liking, again A/B comparison.
You are always gonna need some pro mastering to end with, but that should be enough to practice for now
Enjoy the ride, it is a long one, and don’t stop having fun with it.
Some good headphones for mixing and an acoustic treated room may also help.