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Okay, I'll go direct with mics then. My amp does have a line out though which is why it could be handy (for reference it's a Roland Micro Cube) so it should work for guitar fine. That article looks really good, I'll be sure to read it through properly before coming back with noobish questions:o

1. Okay, that makes sense. 2. So I could just plug my guitar straight in and use software (a plugin) to sort of amplify it? Alternatively I do actually have one small (15w) solid state amplifier which can be used for mic or guitar. If I used that on a clean channel to amplify the signal and...

So are preamps and phantom power used mainly for mics or are they needed for all instruments? And if there was a line-in port but it didn't have a pre-amp, would that mean I would have to plug the instrument into an amp and plug the amp into the line-in on the interface or would it still work...

Sorry but you lost me there:o What is phantom power and what do preamps do? Will they all work fine and it's just a case that some are better quality than others or will some not work at all? Ah, thanks for the warning. I wouldn't have noticed that. I mightn't go with any of the audio...

Yeah I was hoping to go with a Firewire or USB solution (I assume PCI cards are for desktop computers). Thanks for the advice:) I looked it up but it's discontinued:( Thanks for the idea of buying secondhand though, looks like they're much cheaper that way. I'll post some ads I've found...

Hopefully we won't need 8 track drums:o I'm sure we could get by on a single track. I doubt we'll have many cases where we'll all record simultaneously so that's not of huge importance. When you talk about multiple tracks, do you mean they're recorded to the computer and can be edited...

What does an audio converter look like and how much do entry level audio converters generally cost? I doubt we would need more than 2 inputs, 3 or 4 at most. The recording goal is fairly modest, this is nothing more than a hobby. Sound quality really just needs to be better than a video camera...

My friends and I were planning on getting a band together to write and record some songs (a few parodies and covers is about it). I'm just wondering if there's anything we should have for our recording setup that I don't know about. We're just a normal enough band (guitar, drums, bass, vocals...

Thanks I'll give Reaper a go. I'm sure you're right and I'll probably gradually invest in better stuff, especially as I'm usually very fussy about audio quality. It's just that I don't want to blow a lot of money starting out when I mightn't even keep it up for too long. I tried Sony Vegas...

Hi all, I've never really done any recording before but all I want to do is some really simple stuff so I hope someone can help me out. I don't want to do any post production or anything and I don't expect the quality of the recording to be high. All I want to do is record some music covers to...