HELP! How to get sound from my guitar to my computer...

[DontplayIdidit]

Hello all.
I've recorded music at a buddy's house, but never at my own. I hear people talking about cool edit pro...but I know that's for after the music is actually ON your computer.

How do all of you get the music from your guitar(or microphone), to the computer. My buddy would plug his guitar into his amp, and take that into the computer...but he said that there are better ways to do this.

I pretty much just want to get ideas down(riffs/songs/words). I'm not in a band or anything like that...I have an electric acoustic guitar and a computer...what's the best/most efficient way to get recorded sound onto your computer???

Then I can put some of MY songs up, and everyone can tell me to get better recording equipment. da ha!

[chosta]

Then I can put some of MY songs up, and everyone can tell me to get better recording equipment. da ha!

your're so much better off than all of us, knowing that as you join.
i'm clueless, i use either 1 voice recorder my roomate has or 2 a USB headset mic i found in the computer junk drawer, which records suprisingly well

[DontplayIdidit]

Hey, this is exactly what I'm looking for!...what you all use, and your success using it. I went out pricing recording equipment last week...and I'm not good enough to buy the good good stuff yet.

Basic ideas are good ones here..........

[Brock]

I connect a cable from my guitar's pickup (B-Band AST+A1) to my sound card's microphone input with a 1/4"-->1/8" adapter. Record and mix with Cool Edit Pro 2.0.

[paywad927]

I connect a cable from my guitar's pickup (B-Band AST+A1) to my sound card's microphone input with a 1/4"-->1/8" adapter. Record and mix with Cool Edit Pro 2.0.

exactly what i do.

[geekmug]

An acoustic guitar with a pickup can go straight in on the line-in...

An electric guitar needs a direct box and then can go straight in on the line-in. May have some sucess going in on a the mic-in...

Any microphone works for just straight audible recording..

All of the above will get "Get better recording equipment" responses.. one is not better than the other.. They can all be done to the level of sounding "Studio" and as bad as sounding as a you can imagine.. The quality recording you will get is 1/3 performance, 1/3 equipment, 1/3 knowledge. Most people lack the performance and knowledge, equipment is easy to come by (relative to the others).

[DustyDave]

I connect a cable from my guitar's pickup (B-Band AST+A1) to my sound card's microphone input with a 1/4"-->1/8" adapter. Record and mix with Cool Edit Pro 2.0.

Same here