[RockingDad]

Hi all,

I've got a laptop at home not being used which i'm going to use for the sole purpose of a home studio. It has firewire and usb 2.0 as well as onboard mic and line in ports.

Now the thing is I don't want to spend a fortune for my first dip in the world of home studio. I've tried recording my guitar with the desktop pc with some quite poor efforts. I've used a cable i got off ebay with a mono jack one end and a mono pc soundcard jack the other but didn't really seem to work very well.

I've got a cheap mic and tried plugging that in as well but the recording it so quiet it's useless.

My amp has a line out socket as well.

So what is the best way?

I'm using Audacity at the moment (or would do if I can get some sound into it) as it seems the easiest although I do have cubase.

Cheers

Mark