I think Realtek AC97 just refers to a chipset standard Kush, probably your motherboard has a built in sound card which uses that chipset. It's obviously not going to give you the same results you might get from a dedicated sound card but it should be reasonable. I thought the recording quality was pretty okay but marred by background noise. That mic is probably just picking up some extraneous sound. Now you just need to build a sound studio to put the mic in ....
Great playing BTW. You're really getting that fingerstyle stuff down pat. Very nice!
