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This thread is really about spelling, so, moderator, feel free to move it somewhere more appropriate if this ain't the place for it. The present-tense word for "to place a microphone in front of or near something for the purposes of using the microphone to capture its sound" is pronounced like...

So far, I'd say your voice is pleasant and unobtrusive.

When I was young the lyrics were all-important. I'd read them as poems if someone asked me to. As I got older lyrics got so unimportant to me I decided to write intentional gibberish at one point. Now I've sort of eased back to halfway between the two extremes, with lyrics that reflect my...

I'll write out chord progressions by hand just so I can look at them on the staff and see if melody ideas pop out at me. Sometimes I'll write out short segments. I write out rhythms all the time, usually to figure out what the hell time signature they're in.

Right, that's been made very clear. But some of the advice (for example, back off the gain if you're going to layer multiple overdriven tracks) seems pretty universal. It's also something that might have taken me a few days to figure out. Now I've been saved that time--and so have other people...

I'm not hell bent, Honest! It was something I wanted to try because there was a part of one of my songs where in my head I thought it would work, so I was trying to get some obvious no-nos out of the way.

Great advice, thanks.

Don't worry, I don't feel screwed with! I was just trying to say "You've all told me to get an interface, and told me why. I heard you, I understand, and I agree. I'm going to look for an interface." If I need more help with that beyond the GREAT advice you all have given me, there are other...

Just to cap this off here, because it's turning into an interface thread rather than a guitar layering thread, it looks like the M-Audio M-Track is probably the closest thing to what I'm looking for, and a friend of mine likes his a lot. I see one at B&H for $60, so I'm going to try and sell my...

Thanks for the layering tips, very useful. Okay, so you--and several others here--have now convinced me to look for an interface. I quickly Googled the Zoom R24 you called budget friendly: $399. That probably is budget friendly, for a serious musician who's home-recording a demo tape. I'm a guy...

Man, that's awesome. "Dirt" is one of my favorite sounding albums--especially "Rain When I Die". Thanks for the info. So, without using an actual amp & mic, is there a way to emulate Cantrell's 3-tone method? (Yes, I know it won't be as good as the real thing, but surely it would get me closer...

Gotcha, thanks for the explanation.

Oh, okay. Thanks for the clarification, now I understand. So, what if I ditched the USB altogether? The only reason I was doing USB before was because I wanted to monitor the sound the computer was getting, and these days Macs don't come with separate headphone and mic jacks. (Because Apple's...

This is the part I don't understand about categorization/semantics: If my mixer had that same exact cable hard-wired coming out of the back, then the mixer would be my interface. Once I plug that cable into my mixer, and the connection is snug, what is the effective difference? Conversely, why...

So, my mixer is a Yamaha MR1642. It's old, but still seems to work fine. From what I've read it's a professional (but low-end professional) mixer. Still, I don't see why that makes it a "crap" interface. I Googled the mixer and in some forum (maybe on this site? I can't remember) someone said...

It's literally a cable with a female XLR at one end and a male USB at the other. (Belkin makes it, I think.) Mid-way down the cable is a box with a dial and a blue light on it, but I don't touch that part, ever. I used to use that cable, back in my filmmaking days, to record voiceover. I'd go...

Thanks, that's EXACTLY the kind of advice I was looking for!

Cool, I'll try that. So then, back to layering tips... Got any? :D

I like that idea. My only worry is not finding a sound I like among the VSTs, I'd probably just use what Adobe includes in Audition. Do you happen to have an opinion on Adobe's included guitar amp VSTs?

Someone else (in meatspace) recommended I try that, too. In that case should I still use the Zoom pedal on a clean setting (maybe just a teeny bit of gain) and/or mixer, but only as a clean preamp to up the signal quality a bit? That's what I was going to do with the vocals, anyway.